Examples:
- Blink 182 (their old stuff is
punk, everything from their first album onwards is crap)
- New Found Glory
- Good
Charlotte
- Simple Plan
- All-American Rejects
among many others.
People call bands like these "pop
punk", when in reality, they're mostly just pop with a very slight punk-like sound.
Also, some would call Avril Lavigne pop punk, when in reality, she doesn't even remotely sound like punk at all. She does, however, "dress punk", to the annoyance of those who do listen to punk.
True "
pop punk" is actually
punk with a slightly softer sound and more melody, such as Millencolin, Dillinger Four, etc, NOT Blink 182...