Friendville is the second album by YouTube comedian Jarrod Alonge, released under the moniker of his fictitious pop punk band Sunrise Skater Kids, on April 1, 2016.
Direct parodies of specific bands within the pop punk genre such as Blink-182, NOFX, Mayday Parade, Neck Deep and Knuckle Puck are also included.
Similarly to Alonge's previous album Beating a Dead Horse, Friendville was produced using revenue generated from an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that encompassed the month of February 2016.
These targets were both massively surpassed with total funds reaching over $28,000 towards the end of the campaign, which opened up the possibility of Sunrise Skater Kids going on tour to promote the full-length album.
[4] Following the fundraising campaign, a teaser featuring snippets of the album's eleven tracks was posted to Alonge's YouTube channel on March 9, 2016.
On March 30, 2016, Friendville and the entirety of Alonge's discography were withdrawn from iTunes for undisclosed reasons of "editorial discretion", two days before the album's intended release on the Apple platforms.
On the seventh track "Exposure Bank", Alonge stated that it is an "ultra-sarcastic song about making money in music, [and it is] also an ode to 90s punk rock bands like MxPx and NOFX".
The second and ninth tracks on the album, "The Catchy One" and "Nothing Special", satirize the generic lyrical themes and song structures commonly found in local, unsigned pop punk bands.