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Poser bands 

there isn't really any poser bands, its just the posers that make them poser bands...if that makes any sense..

Just because those bands (ex: good charlotte, simple plan, etc.) are pop rock and all sound the same doesn't mean they are copying everyone else. They have just probably been influenced by the same music. maybe they don't want to sound like metal, they just want to play music and write meaningful lyrics (hopefully)
posers listen to bands like simple plan, good charlotte, blink 182,etc..so they make the bands look like poser bands even though those bands probably didn't mean to sound like everyone else
Poser bands by mynameis_alex September 26, 2006

poser punk 

Someone who acts the way they do because they think it's cool.
A kid who wears a tony hawk shirt, has a pre made board, vans shoes, and doesn't know how to skateboard, but they act like they can.
poser punk by Matt November 10, 2003

Poser Theory 

To know what poser theory is, we must first determine what a "poser" is.

The word obviously comes from the word "pose," to stand/ act in a certain way to seem as if you are something other than what you are. From this, we can conclude that someone who is an alleged poser is trying to be something they are not.

Many people call people posers mainly by what they wear, which is ussually their first mistake. People wearing clothes that they bought does not make them a poser- it is their attitude.
Posers will ussually speak about how they are interested in the group they are "posing" for. This may ussually include hobbies and music, such as skateboarding and mainstream emo/ metal bands.***

A definate sign of a poser is that they try to call out other posers, so as to keep their true agenda safe. The best way to explain this common symptom is to compare it to closet homosexuals - how they show signs of homofobia, or say things along the lines of "homosexuality is wrong*" or "queers should die**."
Another symptom is that the poser-in-question will ussually sing/ talk about a song or songs that the group likes. However, this song is ussually the only song by the artist (of the entire genre)that they know, or have even heard of.
The last, and possibly the most obvious symptom, is that the poser-in-question has said/ says outloud that they are (insert clique), or they say that they will be.****

This theory suggests (for the most part) that:
1) If you call yourself something (ex. emo, scene, skater, etc.), you are acting like a poser.
2)People who CALL people posers, are ussually posers.
3)If you PLAN to be like a certain group with that group being named, you are a poser to that group.




* ** I strongly dissagree with these statements. They were used soley as examples and nothing more.
Poser Theory Examples:

*** "Dude, I love Diary of Jane, by Breaking Benjamin! It's the best!!"
"Do you like their other songs?"
"I've never heard any of their other songs.."

**** "I'm totally emo now; my entire ipod is filled with My chemcial Romance."
or
"I think I'm gonna be scene.."

Poser Publicans

A person who claim to be a true republican but only claims that because thats how their parents/friends vote.
I like George Bush because my mom does. Im a Poser Publican.

poser anarchist

a blind teenager, someone who submits to the system they are supposed to be standing up against...someone who gets into fights at school because they think they're making a difference. a person that doesn't stand up for peace but is inturn fighting against it. They think that just because they believe in anarchy they have to hate God.
poser anarchist:
go to old.punx.com and you will see what i'm talking about

poser punk 

This is more of an opinionated definition, so if you don't like it, don't read it.

Now, for all of these people saying that 'poser punks' are people who listen to bands such as 'Sum41' and 'Good Charlotte', etc, and also saying that being a real punk is being unique and pretty much having no guidelines to whatever they do, then why are these people saying that, although being a punk is being unique and having no guidelines, as well as not caring what other people think, then why are they making guidelines by saying that if you listen to a certain band, then you MUST be a 'poser punk'. Excuse my run on sentence if you will, I felt a need for all those commas. Anyways, so if you are trying to have no guidelines, and trying to be unique, it's not going to happen because people still seem to be making rules about being a punk, and not being a punk. Say if you wear safety pins on your hat? Does that make you a 'poser punk' just because you like to do this? Just by listening to a band such a 'Sum41', does that automatically make you a 'poser'? Personally, I don't think so. I think that whatever you want to do, you do it. If you want to be a punk so badly, then follow what you like, whether it be from the mainstream, or something that's entirely new. Thanks for your time, and have a nice day.
"Poser punk is just another silly label"
poser punk by PFP July 29, 2008