Gen Z has spearheaded a resurgence in pop-punk – one of the many periodic moments in the sun the sub-genre has enjoyed since its late-70s birth, somewhere between the release of the first Ramones album and Pete Shelley becoming lead singer of Buzzcocks. You can hear it in the work of Willow Smith, Machine Gun Kelly and at least some of Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, by some distance the biggest pop debut album of recent years.
