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Outline

- Introduction
- Punk music
o Characteristics and lyrics
o Instruments
o Rhythm
- Subgenres
- How I feel when I listen to punk music
- Conclusion

Do you like music? How do you feel when you listen to a song? One of my favorite kinds of music is punk rock and when I’m listening to a punk song, I feel really fine. Punk is not a complicated kind of music, but it has many characteristics that make me feel good, also punk has a lot of styles and each one of them creates in me different sensations.

Punk music started during the seventies. First bands of punk rock music had a dirty sound because they didn’t know how to play an instrument. The basic instruments in punk music are guitars, drums and bass, the voice is usually simple and out of tune. Songs are really short, drums are played fast, guitars are really simple, they don’t use more than three or four chords and the bass is almost unnoticed. Another characteristic of punk music is the lyrics, the first punk bands wrote about nonconformity, freedom, resistance and anarchy, that’s because young people wanted a change in the society or just because they want to be against everything.

By the time punk music had a lot of changes and many styles were created. For example Hardcore Punk started in eighties decade and it has the same musical structure that punk rock but with a faster sound, voices almost screaming and shorter songs. Another type of punk is New Wave, that is a combination of punk rock and pop disco music, it sound and rhythm is clear and it have a commercial format. Happy punk is another subgenre which was created during nineties, it is more structured and commercial because it has sticky chorus and lyrics talk about love, adolescence problems, funny things, etc. Other genres developed by punk are emo, hardcore, powerpop, post punk, screamo, metalcore, etc.

I love punk music because it makes me feel real and lyrics bring me to reality, specially when I listen to hardcore because songs talk about real problems and situations like corruption, war, discrimination and they also talk about unity, equality, idealism and it makes me feel really exited. When I feel sad or crest fallen I listen to happy punk because it sound is really witty and silly and it makes me feel contented. Sometimes emo punk turns me into a gloomy mood because lyrics are really sorrowful and depressive, I like to feel that melancholy inside of me.

In conclusion I like punk music and punk styles because they creates different emotions in me, even when punk is really simple. I think lyrics are really important when you listen to a song and punk rock had a lot of alternatives to all kind of situations, so if you are trying to find music makes you feel something, you can start with punk rock music.