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==Musical style and lyrics==
Pennywise has been described as [[punk rock]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.laweekly.com/music/punk-legends-pennywise-have-a-new-singer-but-you-shouldnt-write-them-off-2401460 |title= Punk Legends Pennywise Have a New Singer, But You Shouldn't Write Them Off |work=[[LA Weekly]] |last=Flanders |first=Kai |access-date=October 3, 2018 |date=May 1, 2012}}</ref> [[skate punk]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nggEAAAAMBAJ&q=pennywise+%22skate+punk+anthems%22&pg=PA93 |title=The Modern Age |last=Bell |first=Carrie |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |page=93 |date=August 28, 1999 |volume=111 |number=35 |issn= 0006-2510 |publisher=[[Nielsen Business Media, Inc.]] |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> [[hardcore punk]],<ref name="mtv96">{{cite web |last1=Staff |title=Former Pennywise Bassist Jason Thirsk Dead |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/691ekz/former-pennywise-bassist-jason-thirsk-dead |website=[[MTV News]] |access-date=12 May 2023 |date=August 2, 1996}}</ref> and [[melodic hardcore]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Green Day: American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion |last=Myers |first=Ben |publisher=Red Wheel Weiser |year=2006 |isbn= 9781609258986 |quote=NOFX's barbed wits and songs about sexually transmitted diseases or Pennywise's spirited fists-in-the-air melodic hardcore.}}</ref>
 
Pennywise's songs and lyrics tend to focus on themes such as positive mental attitude, as well as political and social events that the band finds wrong or disagreeable.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pennywise speaks with out about politics and music with Detroit News|url=http://www.epitaph.com/news/news/769|publisher=[[Epitaph Records]]|date=July 31, 2003}}</ref>