Country music or pop punk?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Obviously pop punk.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There's definitely good country out there, though most is trash. I don't know that I can say the same for pop punk. I do like Charli XCX though, but I don't know if she counts.

...what the hell? Why the hell would she?

Like for reference, this is probably the most played and covered pop punk song of all time.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I love country music and I hate the anti-country knee jerk reaction that happens.  People just sort of assume country is all like the 3 songs they've listened to on the radio for 15 seconds.  That's ridiculous.  Country is a huge genre with many, many great artists and interesting sub-genres.  You don't have to like it, but don't act like you're too intellectual or "hip" for it.

If I go through the pop punk band list on wikipedia: Most of those bands are awful garbage music for annoying 15 year olds in 1999.  I only like two of the bands listed and dispute both of their listings.  Husker Du is not pop music.  Weezer is not punk music.  Thus neither can be pop-punk.

Unsurprisingly that list is terrible, but if you seriously think JAWBREAKER and say The Wonder Years fit that description there's something very wrong.

Also basically every pop punk show I've been to in the last 5 years or so has been a bunch of people with a median age of probably around 27 getting extremely intoxicated and jumping around and crowdsurfing. Stupid music for 15-year olds is more like this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

But those bands are both: 1-Not representative of most pop punk, especially ones at shows (not concerts) in bars where most people are drunk and 2-I don't like any of them except Blink 182.

Seriously Jawbreaker is not Good Charlotte.