Pop Punk magazines feature bright colors like red, yellow, black, white and blue to make elements stand out. A popular band or artist's name is often overlaid on the magazine's title to suggest wide appeal. Artist photos in magazines emphasize dark makeup and hair to make facial features pop and emulate the rebellious styles of 1980s and 1990s punk scenes. Pop punk emerged as a music genre hybrid in the late 1990s through the work of bands like Blink 182, whose music and visuals defined the new subculture.

1. Pop Punk
The genre of magazine I have chosen to study is Pop Punk. This is a
hybrid genre of two music groups which have managed to merge and
create its own new thing. Ii like this idea because it shows you can
create an entirely new sub culture and group of people based around
two genres which are entire polar opposites. Magazines in this genre
tend to have bright colours, mainly situating around: red, yellow,
black, white and blues. This is because the certain colours all contrast
and stand out against each other. The key signifier of the magazine is
often a popular band or solo artist overlapping the magazines
masthead or title. This further insinuates the magazine is well known
and bought by thousands on thousands of people per day. They
usually offer the name of the band which pops out against the other
aspects of the magazine because editors usually position this in the
middle of the magazine so the consumer can spot their favourite
bands and want to buy it to read about them. Artist and bands usually
have dark or bright alternative hair and wear darker eye make up,
making their facial features pop out. Darker make-up is very
predominant in the pop punk world as it is seen as rebellious and
trying to emulate the styles used in the 1980s and 1990s when punk
was coming onto the scene. However the hybrid genre of music was
not established until around the very end of the 1990s when Blink
182 debuted. Their style of music and visual editing created the pop
punk sub culture as we know it today.