Donots - Worst Friend⧸Best Enemy

What this video is

Donots were a five-piece punk-rock band from Ibbenbüren, Germany, formed in 1993, who achieved their German mainstream breakthrough in 2001 with the album Pocketrock and the single 'Whatever Happened to the 80s' (charting #67 in Germany). Their 2002 follow-up Amplify the Good Times, released on GUN Records/Supersonic, entered the German charts at #18 and consolidated their position as one of the leading acts in the…

Why it matters

Documents a pivotal moment in the European pop-punk/melodic punk crossover: a German-language-market band operating entirely within Anglo-American pop-punk conventions, demonstrating the genre's global diffusion in the early 2000s. The track's emo-leaning register within an otherwise high-energy…