Blink 182 are a Pop-Punk band from California, America. Formed in 1992 the band started out as three piece, Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Rayner (whom was replaced by Travis Barker as the main drummer in 1998). The band have released five albums since being together, achieving success globally in the process as a quirky and original punk band selling over 25 million albums worldwide and winning numerous prestigous awards. In 2005 guitarist Tom DeLonge left the band after a fall out with the other two members, leading to huge upset amoungst fans. In 2009 the band announced they were reuniting and that a new album was being worked on. After this news the band played a number of sell out come back gigs re-enforcing the bands loyal fan base.
I feel this song and video typifies the bands style and sound making it an effective thing to analyse.
Genre
Blink 182 are widely known as a punk rock band from the modern day music scene, however the actual genre of punk rock has been ongoing for a long time constantly changing in sense of imagery and style but generally being the same fast tempo, rough edged songs throughout. In the seventies, The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols were widely considered to be the founders of the punk scene revoultionising the music world converting millions into lovers of the genre. Over the years many bands have followed into this genre creating new styles of punk rock, after forming in 1992 Blink 182 were publicly known to be making music from a pop punk perspective. This form of the genre was slightly different to classic punk rock, as in turn it was made for a wider audience with a larger fan following. Stereotypical things from this genre were recongised from the general style of the music, the bands fashion styles and attitudes which projected an air of rebellion and a laid back, cool persona. I feel 'The Rock Show' by Blink 182 perfectly displays this genre and the overall apperance of the band in many of their videos. For example they all wear black skateboard brand t-shirts with messed up hair and tattoos, as well as this they use a typical unedited scratchy style for the guitar and bass which is again typical of this genre. Another example of genre of the punk rock used this time through intertextuality would be at 2.35 in the video where the guitarist Tom smashes his guitar typical of the punk rock genre since the Clash's album cover for London Calling a very iconic picture in the punk world.
Video
In my opinion this video by Blink 182 is created for viewers to see and understand the bands personality and style, it is set up in such a way that the band are allowed money to basically entertain an audience (the fans) to which they decide to do lots of crazy things to excite and inspire them. It links in with the genre well and the way that punk brings about a rebelious and care free attitude which the band show throughout by doing crazy things like buying cars and TVs just to smash them up and throwing money of the top of a building. It states and the start of the video that the band were given some cash to spend on a music video they are in control of making themselves so straight away it seems a more personal video from a fan point of view. I think the band made this video to reveal what they are like out of the public eye and that they are down for lots of fun and crazy things, this I feel connects with the audience very well and may influence the way they live their lives, for example buying the same clothes the band wear. This is all to do with imagery and this video shows alot of that, they include guitar smashing, skateboarding, crowdsurfing and a live performance, as well as basically wasting all their production company's money in order to make a video which ironically works very well. This is because all the things above typify the band giving them an original style and personality which the fans want to see.
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