{"id":12128,"date":"2019-01-14T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=12128"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:28:06","slug":"charly-bliss-inclusivity-power-pop-punk-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/charly-bliss-inclusivity-power-pop-punk-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Charly Bliss brings inclusivity to a genre in serious need of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should tell you up front that I stan Charly Bliss. Hard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In our Winter Music Preview<\/a>, I said I was \u201chead over heels in love\u201d with the band, and that\u2019s not hyperbole. I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for sugary pop punk, and Charly Bliss \u2014 who play High Noon Saloon on\u00a0Jan. 17<\/a> \u2014 are the current masters of that genre. Their 2017 debut, Guppy<\/em>, is wall-to-wall hooks married to grungy guitars. Had it been released in, say, 1995, the Brooklyn quartet would probably be the biggest band in the world. And their genre as a whole would be better for it.<\/p>\n

Charly Bliss represents a sort of reckoning with past eras of pop punk. When I came of age, the bands at the genre\u2019s forefront peddled retrograde, downright toxic views of women. That certainly didn\u2019t do any favors for the emotional maturity of the teenage boys listening to it. As important as they were to me then<\/em>, I can\u2019t listen to New Found Glory without cringing now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But Charly Bliss\u2019 chief songwriter, Eva Hendricks, has found a way to subvert that toxicity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a huge, huge music fan, and ultimately, growing up I feel like there were so few women,\u201d the singer and guitarist said in a recent interview<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s so important, so anytime that I meet people, especially young women who I really connect with, I think it\u2019s so important to offer that support.\u201d<\/p>\n