The Wonder Years Have Started Working on a New Album • Page 4

they already peaked. i said that earlier. They don't have the style of pop punk that the kids are into anymore, and I don't see any way that'll come back. Their best bet is to switch things up and do what they want, I know their influences come from far far more than pop punk.

 

What kind of pop punk ARE the kids into?

 

Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Neck Deep, State Champs...those bands do as well if not better than TWY these days with the warped tour crowd.

 

And then what? They switch to another label, change their sound, it falls flat commercially, and then they break up shortly after. I keep comparing this to Yellowcard because that's just what this is. It's a band that has peaked and feels their best bet is to switch things up and leave their label.

Sure, leaving Hopeless might get them to different tours. But that's really about it.

 

Yellowcard had about twice as many albums and had been a band for much longer than TWY at that same point. YC was a band that hit huge popularity, and never even slightly grazed critical attention like TWY did with TGG. The influences are in difference places, TWY has more critical upside than yc ever did. Things aren't about mainstream popularity

 

The Story So Far and Neck Deep are without a doubt the current kings of the pop punk scene I think.

 

TSSF has fallen off a tad but they're still huge

 

Glad some of you are excited. I'm excited to get to work.

A few things:
-We have no plans to play Warped again.
-Our label has never had much of a say in who we toured with. They were certainly free to offer their advice, but it's only advice.
-We could not have left Hopeless after TGG as we were still contractually obligated to do one more record with them.
-Hopeless has never had any say over our artistic decisions. There were limitations due to budgets and timing, but they never once said that we could or could not write a piece of music. They didn't hear a single demo for a song off of TGG until we were about to record.
-We're friggin' old and probably have peaked, but our last headliner was still one of our biggest.

Every band has a different relationship with their label, but we are very independent and very involved in our everything. Still figuring out our future, but budgets should be better and will enable us to do more of what we want.

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

This will be the big one. I feel it.

 

I hope your future is still bright and big, I really do. I just worry because so many bands have had that too 10 debut and then fall off after that, and you guys deserve something more than that.

Excited, nonetheless, for the future and I'm looking forward to catching up soon.

 

Every record and tour, we joke about it being the end. We've been incredibly lucky and couldn't be more grateful. If it's our time to bow out, then it's just our time. That said, I'd really like to continue doing this for a least a little while longer. Heh. As always, we're going to try to write the best record we can. We're all very excited.

 

Stroll through Columbus on your farewell tour at least ;)

Also, what ever happened to the 10 year shows that were recorded? That was such a great weekend to be there and I'd love to relive it

 

Nice, it's cool you took the time to come here and read thoughts and so on.

Gonna be great to see you guys in Birmingham on your UK tour next month. Reckon there's a chance of you guys playing 'And Now I'm Nothing' on the tour, I've seen you guys 7 times and never heard it? I know you probably have your setlist already worked out, I'm just wondering

 

Still the best live band I have ever seen. Such a great time. Can't wait to see them at Koko in London.

 

Honestly, I've loved every record, and they sold out the Observatory in Southern California in 2016. These dudes aren't slowing down. Can't wait to hear the new tunes!