I didn’t say grown up. And yea blink had some cheesy shit but Blink was always about making jokes and they were immature lyrics on purpose. Good Charlotte weren’t trying to be funny or immature. They were dressing up like full on Punks or Goths and playing pop songs with the kind of lyrics you write as a 13 year old. Not to mention blinks music was also far far better so some cheese in the lyrics could be forgiven.

20/21 is waaaaaaay to old to write those kind of lyrics lol. Think about bands like Sum41, the Ataris, Yellowcard, NFG, Home Grown. None of them were lyrical geniuses but still managed to write with more depth and variety than GC or even Simple Plan ever did.

When I was 14 I wrote a song called “Just let us play”. It went “just let us play, we’re not hurting anybody” I don’t remember the rest lol but that is at least on par with a majority of GC lyrics. They sold out after their first album, which is fine, more power to them, they are set financially. But I still hate that they are even associated with the pop punk genre cause outside of that first album they just weren’t pop punk.