A Deep Dive Into New Found Glory’s Hit Or Miss Video

Pop-punk polarises. Particularly poppy pop-punk produces pissed punk purists; particularly punky pop-punk perplexes passionate pop patrons. Right, fuck that. It’s always been a tricky genre, though, because it straddles two worlds that want different things. Done right, it theoretically pleases everyone. Done badly, it leaves everyone scratching their heads and wondering what the point was. New Found Glory are the genre at its most, well, at its most. There are probably 90 wristbands and hooped socks in this video alone. Let’s dive in, shall we? 0.01 A sad clown. That’s not very upbeat. 0.04 It’s 7:31 or so, and it feels like you don’t see clocks with glow-in-the-dark hands anymore. Or alarm locks in general, in fact. This song came out in 1999, and as such predates all...

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