we need a new thread for this.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13754096_10150726125349963_1477631795425101347_n.jpg?oh=25017e3bf8fd5cce52e76f065dc467ff&oe=582E5C1E
― how's life, Friday, 15 July 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
any dates for this?
― Spottie, Friday, 15 July 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
it's expected to come out early next year
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 15 July 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
justin mendal-jonsen is producing again. zac farro on drums
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 15 July 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
❤️❤️❤️
― calstars, Friday, 15 July 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
meldal-johnsen* lol
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 15 July 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
:D
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 15 July 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
bummed about farro tbh, rubin on drums was so A++
― qualx, Saturday, 16 July 2016 09:16 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsdhY8nWcAARfZc.jpg
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZMPmqAQc1/
(done with recording in Nashville)
― how's life, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Hope those are the only instruments they used.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Hayley Williams on Vox and Electric Nipper
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Csfi2qiWYAAzgFV.jpg
Well, I can't identify every instrument in this pile, but at the very least those must have been some well-amplified congos.
― how's life, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
those are all just big hat boxes imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
question for paramore expert: what i can expect of this album based purely off the hair colour
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
She was blonde for parts of the "Brand New Eyes" era, so..
― abcfsk, Saturday, 17 September 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/774056755370131457 hayley from ParamoreVerified account@yelyahwilliams@katieee03 this is just my "off time" hair lol... Keeping a blank slate for now!
― how's life, Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
Can't believe I actually went and looked into that tbh. I'm sure she'll come up with something interesting when it comes time to actually promote the album.
― how's life, Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/paramore/status/801463457451278336
Finished with the L.A. portions of the album?
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/824692432604397569
@jeffgliponeo
are you guys 90% done with 5more? say something.
@yelyahwilliams
91%
― how's life, Friday, 27 January 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wkzEVmA.jpg
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Is this going to be insanely ott/ambitious
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Friday, 27 January 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
Coz they can't pull out of the trajectory now
― Check the BNM Pitchfork track review, it says Weezer too (imago), Friday, 27 January 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
zac farro officially back in the band
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQBYXlIjkKo/
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
that seems like a big deal
― Spottie, Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
i guess ilan rubin might be a better drummer technically than farro but farro's work has a pretty specific personality that i missed on the s/t initially. his fills on "ignorance" are wild imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
also idk what happened but his playing generally leveled-up on brand new eyes in every way imo, all of those drum tracks are furious
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Drumming on "ignorance" is insane good.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
yeah, his drumming helps make that record, along with that big overblown production that for some reason I hated on every other '00s rock record except that one
― Evan R, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
They realized a two person band would look a little underwhelming on the cover.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
lol
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
aren't they a couple though, that opens up absurdly cutesy/nauseating/lovely possibilities
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
?
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
The two dudes are so cute.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
hayley is married to chad gilbert from new found glory. she dated josh farro back in the day and the breakup went horribly and that's what brand new eyes is about and it's why the farro brothers left the band
xpost
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
:/
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
I don't think they'd cover up the end of a romantic relationship by saying really mean things about how Hayley ran and controlled the band (and also how unchristian she was) so I doubt that's why they left the band.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
I don't think they'd cover up the end of a romantic relationship by saying really mean things about how Hayley ran and controlled the band (and also how unchristian she was)
oh yeah i'm realllly abbreviating history there but idk i think a huge reason they left is that literally every lyric on brand new eyes is kinda like "fuck u josh"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
also from what i remember about it at the time the farro bros "we're leaving the band" letter was super like... terrible bad faith shit
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
tbh maybe my idea of why they left was baseless speculation at the time and i've just carried that in my head for so long that i thought it was true so nm
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
I didn't follow the personal drama b/c I'm too old and indifferent but the fact they made their best album without those dudes has gotta burn a little. Paramore was good precisely because it was the kind of record they probably couldn't have made with two devout Warped Tour loyalists in the band
― Evan R, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Reminds me--on a much, much larger scale--of what happened with Q and Not U back in the day. They were a good band, then they dumped their bassist and made a big show of how they'd dumped their bassist and it really seemed to energize them and open the door to all sorts of new possibilities. This was like that but on more of a Fleetwood Mac scale
― Evan R, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
xp I think the lyrics point to that intimate conflict and also more generally about the tension in the band, sometimes specifically so ("I can't believe we almost hung it up", and then some of them did, but the album pretends they can move on as long as the last jabs are hers (re 'fuck u josh' and maybe 'fuck you zac and, jeremy, and i'm not so great either (but taylor seems like he's always been the nice guy))
Echoing the love for Farro's BNE drums and hope there's some aggression on the new album to make use of them
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is a more accurate portrait of what's going on in that record
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
The way she prods at and questions her faith in the band and Faith in general on BNE in a really aggressive way, like some hurt T Rex, over these machine gun drums and pop punk emo makes it one of my favorite _pop_ albums in general, so full of drama.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's funny how the ostensibly very positive lyrics on "Looking Up" - at least when appearing on the same album as "Ignorance" and "Playing God" and "Feeling Sorry" - can come off as really patronising and dismissive.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
i don't think i realized before how indebted "turn it off" is to jimmy eat world's "work"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:27 (seven years ago) link
Music video shoot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7BklLwWcAACzaF.jpg:large
New half-hour Hayley Williams interview:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzBkZHSDfj_ocW0yZjdsa0x6dTg/view
― how's life, Thursday, 16 March 2017 12:32 (seven years ago) link
aaron weiss from mewithoutyou is on this record
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 March 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
xp: Just got done listening to that interview. No new album news in it.
― how's life, Thursday, 16 March 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/paramore/photos/a.283859034962.37392.5388374962/10150877956544963/?type=3&theater
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 April 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
And now this:
https://twitter.com/upsetmagazine/status/854214441218527232?s=09
― how's life, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
New single tomorrow
Also means these songs will likely be on the album, from the ASCAP leak
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C64x0vPXUAAo1lK.jpg
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
I guess tomorrow means today
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 08:32 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/854560196164714496/i12Lg-VS.jpg
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB6ibtdPZc
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18011054_10150878841404963_7409833132257931580_n.jpg?oh=92f0100acfa92ae45327130da5324465&oe=599720A7
MAY 12
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
hmmm
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
both the cover and single are certainly doing a lot of things
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
sorry for the hugeness of the uh.. hideous album art
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
paramore, the vintage contemporaries edition
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
It seems like they made this song in a shameless effort to get me to like them. I'd say it only kinda worked, but I don't hate it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
Oh shit! Yes!
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
wow they really went for it with that video
some nice sounds but it's a bit weak compared to the perfect synth emo rush of the singles on the s/t?
― ufo, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
first single from the s/t was "now" so i'd say it was less than perfect
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
i was at first weirded out by the amount of empty space in it but now i've listened to it 500000 times so i no longer have perspective
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
V much into this
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
This slams.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
thinking about this as it relates to "now," where a band that slipped into being a new wave emo trio wanted to reconnect to their past and write an older, rockier paramore song and the final construction is a really awkward frankenstein's monster, whereas this seems to push what they were doing on "ain't it fun" into a space where there are even fewer obvious referents to rock and emo
also taylor york really loves writing those spiky, fractional guitar riffs that would be marginalia or embellishment in other bands songs and centering them
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
been hearing a lot of songs with either lackluster or missing bridges lately so i'd like to give it up for the bridge in this song, especially the weird synth/strings(?) tremble
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
(i can't really say much but) from what i've heard they're really going for it with this album
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
First thoughts listening to the song:
1. This is wonderful2. I don't want to hear a whole album of this
It lays it on quite thick. And guessing from the album cover it's not a one-off :/
― Evan R, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
"Now" ruled, and it was kind of a perfect lead single to the extent that there really was no one, completely representative song from that album, so you might as well just toss something quick and striking out there. ("Ain't It Fun" was the album's takeaway single, but it wouldn't have been as big of a hit if it had been released first; it needed time).
Anyway, so I'd been hoping "Hard Times" would be like "Now," a one-off stylistic tangent on another album filled with them. But that cover screams "nah we're all in on this lol Duran Duran vibe."
― Evan R, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
"now" ruling is revisionist history, much as i've grown to like it ok contextually bc the album hanging around it rules
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
feel like i'm more likely to hear "still into you" than "ain't it fun" in the wild in 2017 but this is based on anecdotal evidence
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
In my experience, it's the reverse.
I'm hoping for a variety of styles on the album as well.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
also i hate to be like "read the tea leaves to determine the mood of the record" but that ascap leak upthread implies aaron weiss is on this record and i can't imagine him sing-talking over exposé's "point of no return"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
something about this new song is reminding me of foals at their poppiest (i.e. my number)
― jay kay huysmans (NickB), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
album cover is the long lost single art for amy grant's "hats" y/n
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
Foals comparison otm, though Foals never quite pushed the sound into shtick territory the way this song (also video, album cover) does
― Evan R, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
foals never wrote a song this good let's all relax
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
I was in love with "Now" at first exposure, because I kinda dug dance-punk back in the day, and the track pulled off the trick of improving on that style by adding some extra tension and mass, and putting a distinctive stamp on it with that very alterna-rock conclusion. Big song in a compact package, even if it was an odd singles choice.
I don't think this song improves on its inspirations in the same way, though it does personalize them in a similar way. Song seems strangely cynical in a way, like this is their attempt to "Uptown Funk" Dire Straits
― Evan R, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
If anything, I would say it's their attempt to "Get Lucky" the Talking Heads, but it's better than that imo.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, April 19, 2017 7:42 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao otm
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 8:24 AM
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSn2K3eciSc
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
Taylor York, can you stop being so hot
thx
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
I def doubt the whole album will sound same-y. Unless the band completely changed since s/t (I mean they have changed, Farro is back, even co-writing some tracks, but that certainly does not suggest everything sounding like this). Modern Paramore is very much a group that feels playful and eager to explore the border between pop and rock in all kinds of ways.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
find it very difficult to not play air synths during that vocoder/synth phrase at the end of "hard times"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/arts/music/paramore-hayley-williams-after-laughter-interview.html?_r=0
it's a pop album, my friends
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Modern Paramore is very much a group that feels playful and eager to explore the border between pop and rock in all kinds of ways.
Yeah they're doing this better than anyone else. I see rock as a little more of a commodity rn, since so few are doing it well, but their past gambits have paid off so I'll happily take a pop album
― Evan R, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
Looks like I made a mistake reading the YouTube comments on "Hard Times." I forget the ideal of purity their most fervent fans believe in.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
I want these sunglasses.
http://i.makeagif.com/media/4-19-2017/tzUSVz.gif
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
The only track of theirs I rep for is / ain't it fun / which is transcendent. However much I was ready to love this one, it seems to be missing some magic.
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
im obsessed w/ this song
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 April 2017 04:27 (six years ago) link
Same. I heard it six times on the plane.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
love this song
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:32 (six years ago) link
yeah I came around on listen 4 or so
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:00 (six years ago) link
last 45 seconds of this sounds like a robot version of shut up and let me go by the ting tings
― jay kay huysmans (NickB), Thursday, 20 April 2017 09:02 (six years ago) link
this was very instant for me and it reminds me of something off the last La Roux album
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 April 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
Taylor York, can you stop being so hotthx― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:38 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:38 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
His haircut reminds me of one of the NKOTB guys and he does some great mugging in the video.
― how's life, Thursday, 20 April 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
Love this single. Am I the only one getting massive Alphabeat vibes from the song and video?
― kitchen person, Thursday, 20 April 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
― how's life,
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2e/52/ff/2e52ff9568955e8c9f21829dcf84d8dd.jpg
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
I'd been thinking Jordan, actually, but I had remembered his hair as being curlier than it actuallly was.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/02/0e/5a/020e5a2b645d3f7134af044a718c69ca.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 20 April 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
HARDTIMES
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
XD
― how's life, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
this is really good and yeah it sounds EXACTLY like Alphabeat's first album
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
Part one of an interview with Zane Lowe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Qb2qj58wQ
― how's life, Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
this maybe is an unfavorable comparison, but the track reminds of "You've Changed" by Sia (with Nick Valensi on guitars)
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
For no reason whatsoever this song and video both remind me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RpfKCPc00
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Friday, 21 April 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
So yeah this is their new sound and they're sticking to it. Another good track though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=189&v=yw-RPm1uOM4
― Evan R, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
I wonder if this is the track that's gonna get the bigger push on alt radio, while "Hard Times" goes for the top 40 spins
― Evan R, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
that song rules
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
paramore's de·pres·sion
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
So psyched for the album now.
― how's life, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
these songs are produced really well. all the instruments are crisp.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 3 May 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
they seem to be having fun. this is good
― Spottie, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Hard Times went from 'ok' to 'great' after a day and I love this immediately
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
after staring lovingly at Taylor's mugging iirc
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
New one is good too. I haven't been a fan in the past but I definitely saw some of the appeal of the last album.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
https://imgur.com/CuHNJL8 <3
― qualx, Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
I'm really enjoying the new song, but this part is nagging me a little.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB6ibtdPZc&feature=youtu.be&t=3m3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-RPm1uOM4&feature=youtu.be&t=2m40s
― how's life, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
Uh, that isn't showing up for me. So what I was trying to point out was the similarity between the moments at about 2:40 in Told You So and 3:03 in Hard Times.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
tbh i like that the songs seem to talk to each other
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
That's a good way to look at it.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
*relistens to "told you so"* ugh this is magnificent
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
Love "Told You So". This looks suddenly (and, to me anyway, unexpectedly) an album of the year contender.
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 May 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
i can't listen to anything else. what a brilliant song.
― Nourry, Friday, 5 May 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
I love it when there's something my daughter and I can both enjoy. It's much preferable to nefarious tween marketing tweaks directing her to bullseye shit like Panic! At the Disco and Twenty One Pilots.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 May 2017 11:33 (six years ago) link
http://assets8.pop-buzz.com/2017/16/paramore-reveal-meaning-behind-hard-times-lyrics-1492685488-list-handheld-0.png
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 May 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
https://res.cloudinary.com/kumpar/image/upload/c_fill,g_face,w_640/gzcoemybplwrqjw3istk.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/X6XyKt13NIPSg/giphy.gif
― how's life, Friday, 5 May 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
Taylor looks like such a nice boyfriend.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 May 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
Hey y’all.
― the ghost of markers, Sunday, 7 May 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/bf6db5536e1585ef0d6b717a7fd9d586/tumblr_ooo20u2i561uub7c0o2_500.gif
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
This album is fantastic. It's just the kind of album I needed in my life right now.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
oh awesome! thought this wasn't out till summer for some reason.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
Friday.
― the ghost of markers, Thursday, 11 May 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
just when I thought this was their twist-free pop record, the penultimate track shows up
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
"Forgiveness" is either a blatant Haim lift or a working through of the same influences.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
hayley has lately been enthusing about haim all over twitter fyi
― del esdichado (NickB), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
Caramanica can't hide his sneer.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
I was going to say, who needs a new Haim?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
Two quick observations: drummer has some fallback hi-hat on the 2 and 4 beats, and guitarist really likes those little African-esque licks. Both of which work, to my ears.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
yeah, lots of high life accents
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
"forgiveness" is easily the best song i've heard this year & will prob destroy anything on the haim album--and i love haim!
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
It's got sort of 1975 vibes about it, too. And, um, "Cherish." Lovely, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
Fake Happy is my immediate favourite. I love how those synths come in after that misleading intro.
No Friend is the only one I'm not really into. I don't think they really pulled off what they were going for. It's the only misfire on the album though, everything else sounds so good.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
think of "no friend" as a dark inverse coda to "idle worship" bc... well, it is, but i think those are the terms on which it works
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Pool is my favourite at the moment, but the first seven tracks are all pretty fantastic
No Friend would probably be fine if it were like a minute, doesn't really need to be longer than the track it's an outro to
― ufo, Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
is that Taylor singing "No Friend"?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
that is aaron weiss from the band mewithoutyou
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
http://nocountryfornewnashville.com/2017/05/11/review-paramore-5-10-17-at-exitin-photos/#more-84799
― how's life, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
that setlist :)
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
i just filed my review so i feel like now i can say that i don't get caramanica's
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
i find it hard to get into these guys, a couple of amazing songs aside
― k3vin k., Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
I get the gist of Caramanica's review; he pretty much voices all of my initial reservations about this album (too schticky, a waste of a great rock singer). I do think the tone is off, though. He isn't really giving the band any credit for their range (he brushes off the s/t album), and seems to box them in with a style of music they aren't interested anymore. It shouldn't be any great shock that bands can evolve over 10 years
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
and using synths isn't a touchstone of '80s bands (also, after three listens, I don't hear an egregious use of synths; they're more for the occasional garnish).
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
a waste of a great rock singer
i think listening to the album basically dispatches this criticism
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
xpost Yeah, definitely seems more sophisti-pop.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
first couple of listens and i'm not really feeling this at all. it did take a few plays for say-they-say-they-told-meeeyyy to get its hooks into me though
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 08:58 (six years ago) link
off the bat i'm liking idle worship, i like the tension in the vocals there
caught in the middle - wtf is this ace of base garbage?
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 09:07 (six years ago) link
I generally like Caramanica, but this line -- "some of her essential grit is lost to the machines" -- I mean, talk about your '80s revivalism. It's like reading Rolling Stone in 1983.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 May 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
hard times
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
First listen to this, and it was really disheartening. I'm sure it will grow on me, because the songs are solid and Hayley brought her A game. But I find the whole Wedding Singer cosplay thing insufferably tacky, and all those brittle '80s polyrhythms just sound shitty and one-trick to me.
― Evan R, Friday, 12 May 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
After two listens, I like the first few songs very much (which includes the two that had been released already), but I'm not hearing much in the way of hooks in the rest of it. Will continue to listen though.
― how's life, Friday, 12 May 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
y'know I really appreciate how few straight-up love songs HW writes
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 May 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
enjoying this on first listen
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
i take it the eh-eh-eh vocals and mention of 'hopeless places' on idle worship are a nod to rihanna?
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
Can we please get a Paramore/1975 world tour? Pretty please? :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
I think we should crowdfund brad a ticket for the cruise
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
this definitely falls off after Pool in a way the s/t didn't really despite being 20 minutes longer, but the good half of this sure is great
something about the way the chorus in Pool comes in gets me every time
― ufo, Friday, 12 May 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
I'm in!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
i'd agree if i didn't love "caught in the middle" and "idle worship" at this point (also "tell me how" is their best closer imo). "grudges" is prob the only miss and it has a great bridge
xp
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
who or what is 'tell me how' about? (i am dim and haven't followed the band's history or relationships)
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
no idea. pretty easy to fold "tell me how" onto any kind of breakup though
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
i love 'grudges' - it reminds me of all the cure and trashcan sinatras and smiths that i didn't listen to in middle school
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, May 12, 2017 12:11 PM
It's about my despair at knowing Taylor doesn't care I'm alive
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
unsurprisingly I like all of this now, though the closing trio sounds like it belongs on a longer / more ambitious record.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
it's one hall of a jolt when spotify starts playing 'fast in my car' straight afterwards
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 12, 2017 9:14 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes exactly
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I really like the sequencing here, how it starts with all the knockout backyard barbecue tracks and gradually works its way into sprawlier ("less grounded," in Caramanica speak) territory. "No Friend" does so much to anchor the record; I'm so glad they didn't cut it.
tbh I'd like this album a ton more if it had like, another 10-20 minutes of material on it, even uneven material, just to better balance that big mass of polyrhythmic 80s stuff and put it in perspective. That was part of what i loved about the s/t one, how it worked as both a pop record and an exploratory endeavor. But historically most of their albums have been pretty lean so I guess this is a return to form in that way
― Evan R, Friday, 12 May 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
"Forgiveness" is wonderful and the best take on the very very overexposed 80s soft-pop thing I've heard in a long time
― Evan R, Friday, 12 May 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
aw man, i just made a post to this thread and the android app ate it. trying again:Despite the talk of this not being like a classic emo paramore album, i think if you rearranged it for crunchy guitars and more soaring vocal lines, this would sound more like brand new eyes than self-titled.
― how's life, Friday, 12 May 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Ok, that worked. My other thought in the eaten post was that i really like all her little vocal strains and squeaks in Idle Worship.
― how's life, Friday, 12 May 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
hope folks who like this make their way to Flock of Dimes stat
― the tune was space, Friday, 12 May 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Despite the talk of this not being like a classic emo paramore album, i think if you rearranged it for crunchy guitars and more soaring vocal lines, this would sound more like brand new eyes than self-titled.
― how's life, Friday, May 12, 2017 9:48 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is exactly what i thought when i first heard it. "fake happy" -> "26" is like going back in time to brand new eyes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
flock of dimes is great not sure i understand the relationship
tbh I'd like this album a ton more if it had like, another 10-20 minutes of material on it
Yeah I think this is what I was trying to get at, there's a pretty broad sonic canvas here that could have used a S/T type length to explore. but y'know "leaves you wanting more" is one of those good problems
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
i doubt this'll get mewithoutyou any new fans but if any of y'all like "no friend" and are unfamiliar i highly recommend getting into mewithoutyou
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
i think that will be youwithoutme tbh
― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Otm about the Brand New Eyes feel
Also about mewithoutyou being very good
― Evan R, Friday, 12 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Really digging this, especially the first half.The '80s pop revivalism doesn't bother me at all here, cuz that guitar player has it FIGURED OUT how the jerky arpeggios of brittle new wave relate to African high life guitar
― bunny slopes, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
i.e. he's studied his English Beat
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
lol, I definitely gave Special Beat Service a spin in the last week.
― how's life, Friday, 12 May 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
Gif or gtfo
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/cq5vJZkfJB9PW/giphy.gif
― devvvine, Friday, 12 May 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
Bought this irl at Target today, so now I own one CD. Still haven’t listened to the full album though.
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 12 May 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
Really loving this new Paramore album 'After Contra'.
― Tim F, Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
Heh. (Listening now.)
― the ghost of markers, Saturday, 13 May 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
I really enjoy this. Not sure about "No Friend" but it doesn't bother me. Am I making too much of their Nashville connection, or is there a bit of a modern country vibe on some of these choruses? Thinking Fogiveness, Fake Happy, and 26.
― brontosaur, Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
Pretty good first listen.
― the ghost of markers, Saturday, 13 May 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
enjoying "grudges" a whole lot
― Sharkie, Saturday, 13 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
btw is it me or is the production a bit muddy at points?
― Sharkie, Saturday, 13 May 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
oh PLEASE
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
i thought this was one of the best produced pop records in years lol
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
"Forgiveness" is a wonder on earphones.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
Agreed - shiny as required but not nearly as aggressively mastered as most
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
haven't been able to listen on headphones yet tbf (on living room speakers for now)
rose-colored boy is one of my favorite tracks at this point!
― Sharkie, Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
I suspect Hayley has listened to ArtAngels a lot.
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Love how "Forgiveness" never specified whether Hayley thinks the addressee actually deserves forgiveness or not - maybe recognising that the answer to that question may not be particularly relevant to their problem.
And I love the line "it could take me all your life to learn to love".
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
xp: yeah, there are definitely a few moments.
― how's life, Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
there are a lot of great, quotable lines on this, moreso than on the s/t
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
Agreed. Williams is in top form, and York and Farro match her.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 May 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
btwn this and Kendrick I gather you just hate slow songs Alfred
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 May 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
I'm impressed that Williams and York are the only credited writers. Not that I thought they were at all incapable, just that they didn't go the lazy (imo) Taylor Swift route and hire a ringer to make their transformation, just (like Haim) a really sympathetic and intuitive producer.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
I don't see Swift's move as lazy: she wanted a sound and sought the writer/producers most capable of it.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 May 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)
ça dépend! I prefer the slowness on the eponymous album.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 May 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
i think "tell me how" is the best closer they've ever done
which has reminded me that all of their closers are baseline incredible
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 May 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
I agree w/ that, and also both ballads on this are way preferable to idk "Hate to See Your Heart Break"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 May 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Haha I was going to say "Tell Me How" is amazing but difficult for me to decide whether it's their best closer when "All I Wanted" exists ("and when the world treats you way too fairly..."), and I adore "Future" as well.
Love that "26" is so obviously a sequel to "Misguided Ghosts".
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
The York-Farro interplay in "Tell Me How" is on point.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
"Future" is a pure novelty to me tbh, like it's neat that they did a post-rock song but I never actually get through it
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
xpost I only think the Taylor Swift move was lazy because she was an established successful crossover songwriter herself (mediocre or no), but when she decided to go big she picked a team that would churn out hits whether she was involved or not. Like, they did not need her, they've written dozens of huge hits with little or no input from the artist. This Paramore album, though, I find it sort of inspiring (or something less strong) that the band itself (like the 1975, to an extent) proves so capable of big pop songs without relying on one of the usual suspects.
I'm not saying Swift's lazy move was wrong, as such. But I think music like Paramore and Haim has so much more personality - Aint It Fun, still, and Hard Times, they sound so refreshing - and I would have been interested in hearing Swift, had she not hired out for hits, try to do the same all by herself.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
I don't know, it's just personal preference, but I find Max Martin so big, boxy and heavy handed - joyless, really - but stuff like this, Haim and the 1975 is so wonderfully light on its feet.
Second that I think her singing is great on this. Can't explain why, but I keep thinking of someone like David Byrne singing "Forgiveness" or "Hard Times."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Comparing this to Hella Good, which this reminds me of DON'T AT ME - just underlines what an amazing singer she is
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 May 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
Hayley's lyrics (and performance of them) are so declaratory that she's risk slipping into hectoring if her vocals weren't so endlessly nuanced and expressive.
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 May 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
The way the fluttering percussion and bass on "Forgiveness" slip into that steady pulse for the chorus is A+ devastating (-ly simple) pop craftsmanship.
― Tim F, Sunday, 14 May 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
yep
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 May 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
I agree w/ that, and also both ballads on this are way preferable to idk "Hate to See Your Heart Break"― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, May 14, 2017 2:45 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, May 14, 2017 2:45 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Man idk, both these songs are great, but Hate to See Your Heart Break is sublime.
― how's life, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
― Tim F, Sunday, May 14, 2017 6:49 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark
i believe an acoustic guitar comes in as well, and then i think a slight twang emerges in hayley's voice, and in my head it momentarily shapeshifts into an especially lush kacey musgraves song
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 May 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
i like this, pretty cool. maybe a bit heavy on the fleetwood mac pastiche for me at times
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 15 May 2017 06:05 (six years ago) link
"Grudges" turns out to secretly be a real grower.
I think it seems weak at first because Hayley sits further back in the mix and sounds relatively anonymous-shiny (for her), but after xxxx number of listens I've decided this is an aesthetic decision intended to create this charming Haim meets School of Seven Bells effect.
― Tim F, Monday, 15 May 2017 09:07 (six years ago) link
At my Best Buy on Saturday to buy some cables, I was told the Paramore album was sold out. Meanwhile I saw displays chock full of the Harry Styles album. It would be nice to think Paramore had a chance in hell at #1.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 May 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
I'm sure the store ordered a bigger truckload of Harry Styles albums to stock the shelves with though.
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 May 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, May 15, 2017 1:43 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh good, I thought I was being crazy when I heard some modern country moves on the choruses of some of these songs. I guess, some of the broad strokes of the chord changes in the choruses that read Modern Country to me could just be 80s pop rock moves, but I am not sure if there is much difference between the distinction.
― brontosaur, Monday, 15 May 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
"Forgiveness" on repeat.
This is a great record about depression
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
choruses that read Modern Country to me could just be 80s pop rock moves, but I am not sure if there is much difference between the distinction.
this is like the first time i heard fearless and i thought half the choruses were rebranded mainstream emo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
this is like the first time i heard fearless and thought half of the choruses on that record were rebranded mainstream emo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
lmao i thought that post didn't go through, go me
one more with Hayley harmonies!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
I guess i've gone full circle. Fearless is probably a large touchstone for what I might consider modern country, even though it was almost a decade ago.
― brontosaur, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
tee-THAH!
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piSRAsAyQE
― how's life, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
some good taylor content there cc alfred
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
Huh. Lots of prerecorded stuff there, especially with six people on stage. I was curious how they would pull it off.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Went out and bought the album day of release at Target, which Hayley loves, so that was appropriate.
I also got the DIY magazine issue with them on the cover in the mail. It’s tiny.
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
THESENIGHTS
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
Yah?
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Love how the plot of "Rose-Colored Boy" is basically a direct inverse of the archetypal manic pixie dream girl narrative.
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 May 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
you are the waaaave
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 May 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
I still love this
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 May 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
Would you say you’re still into it???
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
I need to listen to this. It's not the sort of thing I want to listen to in the background while I'm online (since the English lyrics will be too distracting). I think the best thing for me to do is buy a copy and listen in the car.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
After all this time?
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
I think I love every song on this album now.
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-D6zD5XkAQNTmp.jpg
I'm still into him!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 May 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
I should be over all the butterflies
Some things just, some things just make sense.
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, May 25, 2017 5:41 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same. i had a moment with "grudges" today
LAUGH. TILL. WE. CRY
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 26 May 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
kinda want to know what the og straightforward rock arrangement of "caught in the middle" was like
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 26 May 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
"Caught in the Middle" and "26" are the only ones that still haven't unbuttoned their shirts for me.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 May 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
u like "tell me how" now alfred
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 26 May 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
It reminds me of "Future"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 May 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
Let the record reflect that I was OTM about "Grudges" upthread.
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
guys I think this is the best paramore album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 26 May 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
i a/b'd it with the s/t last week and i disagree but only slightly
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 26 May 2017 04:38 (six years ago) link
^^^^ same
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 05:01 (six years ago) link
I gotta be honest I regularly skip like 5 songs on Paramore (and I don't mean the interludes)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 26 May 2017 06:58 (six years ago) link
love this one but BNE remains the best.
― devvvine, Friday, 26 May 2017 08:57 (six years ago) link
"Caught in the Middle" and "26" are the only ones that still haven't unbuttoned their shirts for me.― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Caught in the Middle feels like a No Doubt album cut. While I like the idea of Paramore going ska, I wish there was more of a chorus. 26 is amazing though! At first I didn't think it lived up to Hate to See Your Heartbreak for me, as far as Paramore country attempts go, but sonically, it really feels like a lost Taylor Swift ballad circa Fearless or Speak Now.
Let the record reflect that I was OTM about "Grudges" upthread.― Tim F, Friday, May 26, 2017 12:18 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tim F, Friday, May 26, 2017 12:18 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You were.
― how's life, Friday, 26 May 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
I think of "26" as a sequel to "Misguided Ghosts", which is one of the three ~perfect songs~ on Brand New Eyes.
But yeah there is something kinda Taylor about it.
― Tim F, Friday, 26 May 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
I've been listening to "Tell Me How" on repeat lately
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 26 May 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
Dang, jealous that you all connected with this so much. I burned out on it pretty fast.
It's well crafted and has some solid songs but I think it's kinda tacky.
― Evan R, Friday, 26 May 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
“Pool” has been a thing for me.
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
http://1900parmore.com/index.html
― how's life, Saturday, 27 May 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
That's a compliment!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 May 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ceNoLdXq0k
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 May 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
beatnik paramore is the best.
― how's life, Monday, 29 May 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY
― the ghost of markers, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
The final three song stretch on this is hypnotizing stuff.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
I did -- four days without listening to "Hard Times"!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
*I did it
Proud of u bb.
― the ghost of markers, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
this is my album of 2017 so far, i can't stop listening to it
― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 2 June 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
I was thinking to myself yesterday "man, Fake Hpapy would be a great next single if it weren't for that pesky intro" then lo and behold there it is on Spotify with the intro shorn off
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
*Happy argh
So this album has been a sales flop eh
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
btw riot! came out ten years ago today
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
I was hoping that "Hard Times" or "Told You So" would end up as a slow-burn hit the way "Ain't It Fun" did but I guess that's looking unlikely
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
they rushed the promo cycle on this record intentionally but its floppability may have been out of their hands anyway
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
I will never understand the mechanics of what gets to be a pop hit tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
i'm surprised "hard times" didn't catch
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 June 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
i'm telling you, pop radio is allergic to women who don't sound catatonic these days
― maura, Monday, 12 June 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Even Katy Perry replacing Williams couldn't stop this from tumbling out of the top fifty. And Perry's next.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
maura otm. "Ain't It Fun" wouldn't reach the top ten in 2017 if RCA sent 20 grams of coke to every programmer.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
there are three women in the top 20 (not a typo) this week and two of them are muses for edm dudes
http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
― maura, Monday, 12 June 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
fuck -- "Bad Liar" is done.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
"Fake Happy" is my favourite track
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
Can we discuss how beautifully -- how intricately -- York layers those guitar parts on "Told You So"? At least three riffs, each playing something different, and Williams has a melody line for'em all. The thing is like a cuckoo clock.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
& they didn't even need 500 years of democracy and peace
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
Should be pretty easy to get rid of.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
wouldn't kick it with you after you hit that ground
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
I tried to convince a skeptical peer of this album's genius by playing him "Told You So" and he replied with "bridge is OK, rest is meh" and now I truly understand rage
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 June 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
that person is not your peer. treat them as the sub-human refuse that they are.
― nice cage (m bison), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
― maura, Monday, June 12, 2017 5:08 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this makes me sad, although it was a youth female that recommended me this album in the first place, so hope 4 the future
― nice cage (m bison), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
has it been remarked that "forgiveness" sounds like a christine mcvie-penned FM song?
― nice cage (m bison), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUQc48x8Gc
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
holy god
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
fuck me up
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 June 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
hmm, what other covers can i summon...
DON'T YOU THINK IT'S WEIRD HOW "TOLD YOU SO" SOUNDS LIKE STEVE REICH'S "TEHILLIM"???
― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 16 June 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
I don’t really care about Fleetwood Mac. They should play some Staind.
― the ghost of markers, Friday, 16 June 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
your mom should play some staind
― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 16 June 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoj_3r9oqg
― MarkoP, Monday, 19 June 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
she sounds terrific
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 June 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
I still haven't caught up with the new one. Loved the self-titled record though. This one is a bit more synthy, no?
― jterich, Monday, 19 June 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
you might say so
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Can't look back/Can't look too far ahead
About what I've recently concluded is necessary for me to keep things together at all.
― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Hearing XTC in Idle Worship and some other songs.
― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
top 5 of the year so far for me
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 3 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
same
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 July 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Top 1 for me
― nice cage (m bison), Monday, 3 July 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Ha yeah, same here! I took a break from listening to it for a week or so but went back to it again today. I loved the s/t but this even tops that.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this has become my album of the year too. It's just edging out Perfume Genius.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
Still love this band but this album is tacky
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
You know who else is tacky?
― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
Your MAMA
― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard any other Paramore album, but I love this one. Would I enjoy their other stuff? I know this one is different...
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Tacky
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
xp yeah you'd probably enjoy them a lot, especially the s/t album, which foreshadows some of the poppier sounds on this one. The albums before that were much more modern rock-y, but they were a best in class kinda thing for what they were
― Evan R, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
I seriously just got into a car accident about two hours ago while Hard Times was playing on my car stereo. Fortunately, nobody was hurt and I am pretty sure the other driver's insurance will have to pay (I was rear-ended while being forced to stop during a right-hand turn), but my care looks like crap even more than it did before. Some sort of sign.
― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
This is why we don't drive on people's asses, Albuquerque.
― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
good show. the fleetwood mac cover is really good.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Now that the album has been, alas, a resounding flop I wonder what's next.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
Hopefully they're still doing well enough as a touring act that soft sales don't matter so much?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
I think I'm the only one here who hates the new album, but would they still be worth seeing if I'm not into the new stuff? They're coming in December but I don't think I can take 90 minutes of polyrhythmic beach party Paramore
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
There are a lot of videos and setlists available from the tour. They are playing plenty of older stuff.
I had tickets to their DC show, but found out a couple weeks ahead of time that I couldn't make it. Put my tickets up for sale online and no one bought them. There were several other sellers there, all seemingly trying desperately to unload tickets and taking losses at the last minute. As far as I know none of them sold. This was my first time trying to sell tickets online, so I don't know if this is the usual experience, but I would have thought there would have been more demand for Paramore in a 3,000-seater.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
the album isn't even 40 minutes of polyrhythmic beach party paramore
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
I just busted out the album for the first time in a while this week and the polyrhythmic beach party still holds up really well for me.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
they play hard times, told you so, rose colored boy, forgiveness, fake happy, 26 and caught in the middle, everything else is old ... it was a very tight set list i thought
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
the first 6 songs on the album are fav stretch of any album i've heard this year... still warming up slowly to the back half
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
they sold out radio city last night (6,000 cap) but idk what that means really
i don't think this album not catching on means much ultimately... i think they're a pop band now but wouldn't imagine them making more songs that sound like "hard times" et al anyway
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I'm sure the next album cycle will bring more change.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
hopefully Taylor York won't learn one new guitar trick and hammer it into the ground on the next record
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
strong disagree
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
lol, just the way you phrased that makes me hope he assiduously throws himself into Steve Vai and the next paramore album is all arpeggio runs, whammy bar, and pinch harmonics.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Taylor York has stepped up to every challenge since 2010.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
i can't disagree harder w/ any opinion than the idea that those guitar parts on the paramore album aren't awesome
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
yeah I wish I felt the same way. They sound tacky as fuck to me, and unfortunately the album's best written songs are the ones that lay them on thickest. Like, the whole album is a wash for me, I can have my pick of either second-tier material or good songs saturated in a shtick I find insufferable.
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
again, not trying to change anybody's mind on this; I know I'm pretty much alone in this opinion in this thread. Just bummed about it. This was maybe the album I was looking forward to the most this year
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
youuuuuuuuuyou want forgivenesssssssssss
― professor of postmalonial studies (m bison), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
xp: Evan, I can totally understand why this style might not be someone's bag too. Sorry.
― how's life, Friday, 6 October 2017 08:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vsuOXZBXc
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
🙃
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
i don't really get this video at all but i'm glad they're pushing this one as a single. think it could be the hit from this album.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 17 November 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
1:05 made me remember the "yells at a butt" comment from the gangnam style thread.
― how's life, Friday, 17 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Is Taylor naked in it
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
I love this song
― Evan R, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Fake Happy is my favourite song on the album. Hope it can do an Ain't It Fun and give them a slow burning hit single. I'm still in shock at the commercial performance for this album. It should be huge.
― kitchen person, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
I think the album is fine for what it is but a pretty poor use of this band and Hayley William's vast skill set. It definitely doesn't sound like it should be huge to me, the charts weren't really clamoring for a bunch of polyrhymic 80s throwbacks. Most of it just feels kinda silly and disposable to me; it doesn't have the heft or longevity of the three albums before it.
― Evan R, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
I'm still hoping there are a bunch of outtakes from these sessions that eventually see daylight. I respect that they opted to make a fairly tight record, but after the four year wait between albums this just feels slight and incomplete to me
― Evan R, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
this record is perfect and your life is in shambles, friend
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, 18 November 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
lol that video!
― Spottie, Saturday, 18 November 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
it's a good album but was under-promoted and feels more like their indie album than their pop album so the performance isn't surprising
― ufo, Saturday, 18 November 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
It could been promoted 24 hours a day in 2017 and it wouldn't have made a difference. These songs don't fit formats.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
Anybody seen this tour? Weird moment from last night's show: Zac sang a song about Scooby during the encore, and the crowd seemed totally lost. Couldn't quite understand what was going on.
I was bummed they didn't do "Now." "Fake Happy" and "Ain't it Fun" killed though
― Evan R, Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
it's a halfnoise (zac's band) song
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Ain’t it Fun live is the best thing
― competitive shooter - - - - (Spottie), Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
saw them at radio city and really enjoyed it
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
fake happy up there with my SOTY
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/_SuSvSH0gtM
Taylor talking extensively about his guitar gear.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
he's so beautiful
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
just another cuervo fueled night of hitting every youtube instance of their "Everywhere" cover, thanks to whoever brought that up initially because I'm far beyond being able to live without it
― Devilock, Monday, 22 January 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
oh
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
aha
AH
― Devilock, Monday, 22 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Tried to find a thread for this list.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
Pool would be in my top 5
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
Alfred you linked to your wordpress backend. What's your password? :)
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 January 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
― how's life, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
New Hayley interview! This podcast focuses on beauty/makeup and Hayley's on there to promote her latest GoodDyeYoung product, but she talks a lot of Paramore as well.. About halfway through they get DEEP into skincare products which I found interesting but is alien territory for me so I haven't finished the ep yet. But she has a good rapport with the interviewer. The conversation feels honest and open and friendly and not very press junket-ish, which some of the other AL-cycle interviews suffer from.
https://www.mirrormirrorpodcast.com/editorial/ep27hayleywilliams
― how's life, Friday, 2 February 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
you are the waaaaave
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 2 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
I want to know what Taylor does to keep his hair so awesome.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Rose Colored Boy video out soon, with a hopefully more satisfying amount of Taylor York hair than the last vid, for Alfred's sake.
#wakeuproseville pic.twitter.com/4YHBTqmSai— paramore (@paramore) February 5, 2018
― how's life, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
omg
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
i was literally just thinking yesterday, "they should put out 'rose-colored boy' as a single. it won't go anywhere but they should do it anyway"
seeing them live a few weeks ago revved up my appreciation of this album. "Rose-Colored Boy" is now my favorite song on the album
oh & they walked on just after blasting "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" & the crowd sang along in full voice; then they left to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". this all makes sense I think
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5ueE2vUm0
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
man dude, my eyes started welling up at the part with young hayley.
― how's life, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
it got to me too
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
did they mix up the video treatments for this and "fake happy"
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
they seem fun
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/l4pTpAc88oa9pQttS/giphy.gif
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I can't
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
this is their best video i think?
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
i think it's even better than my other fav, "the only exception"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
yehhh top video
― nxd, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
I have no idea if people actually listen to this band. Was this album a hit? A flop? Have they toured behind it? Just festivals? Clearly they are still releasing singles.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
it was a flop, they have toured and are touring behind it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
And yet, pretty sure they never hit Chicago! I mean, they might have been at Riot Fest? But I was shocked they never played a standalone show here, if that was it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Seems like it was a flop in the Melodrama sense, where maybe it underperformed a bit commercially but it was also enormously well-received and probably cemented their fanbase for many, many years to come.
Saw their winter show (sold out, I think) and the good will for the band was just through the roof.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
yeah i was less worried about their health as a band after seeing them on this tour (at a sold out radio city). i think after "still into you" and "ain't it fun" were big pop hits that really leaning hard into that direction made sense... but given how hard it is for any rock band to get consistent traction in pop i'm also not surprised it didn't catch. will be interesting to see where they go next having given this route their best effort.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
apropos of nothing "Forgiveness" reminds me of The Orb's "Star 6 7 8 9" or whatever it was called
― Devilock, Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
Big thanks to New Zealand for my massive new tan. Wish I never had to leave this place. Don’t think it’s possible to get more tan though.. pic.twitter.com/CQpqbPtEys— Taylor York (@itstayloryall) February 14, 2018
Taylor looking less like a dapper young emissary of pop and new wave and more like everyone I went on Phish tour with. When album 6 rolls around in uh, 2021, I'm predicting jammy elements.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
You have exactly an hour to retract.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
lol, it would never happen. I could see them adding more psych pop elements to their sound though. Dude loves his pedals.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
meanwhile I'm pleased they're obsessed with "Seven Wonders" too.
#tour4 is going great. now back to you! pic.twitter.com/qHETlewOhS— paramore (@paramore) February 10, 2018
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
I bet everybody here is fake happy too pic.twitter.com/sztBARpIh8— Kenny G (@kennyg) March 29, 2018
― how's life, Thursday, 29 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
oh man. would love to see a collab
― gman59, Friday, 30 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
no fuckin way
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
reasonable dancing?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhSVGuNlvDv/?taken-by=paramoremusicom
― how's life, Sunday, 8 April 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
Zac Farro interview:
https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/may-2018-paramores-zac-farro/
― how's life, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
My favourite record of 2017
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Saturday, 21 April 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j7z_oPTvJM&feature=youtu.be
― maura, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j7z_oPTvJM
― maura, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
i support this band turning into talking heads
― akm, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
I support drinking Old Fashioneds with Taylor.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
I support Alfred
― done and dusted (Ross), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
<3
The two dudes are so cute.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 2, 2017 2:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Taylor York, can you stop being so hotthx― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 8:38 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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HARDTIMES― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 20, 2017 7:02 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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after staring lovingly at Taylor's mugging iirc― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:15 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:15 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Taylor looks like such a nice boyfriend.― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 5, 2017 5:28 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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is that Taylor singing "No Friend"?― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:21 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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It's about my despair at knowing Taylor doesn't care I'm alive― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 12, 2017 9:14 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 12, 2017 9:14 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm still into him!― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 25, 2017 5:44 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI should be over all the butterflies― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 25, 2017 5:44 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Taylor York has stepped up to every challenge since 2010.― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 5, 2017 10:49 AM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Is Taylor naked in it― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 17, 2017 9:23 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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he's so beautiful― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 4, 2018 10:08 AM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 4, 2018 10:08 AM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I want to know what Taylor does to keep his hair so awesome.― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 2, 2018 8:55 AM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Taylor looking less like a dapper young emissary of pop and new wave and more like everyone I went on Phish tour with. When album 6 rolls around in uh, 2021, I'm predicting jammy elements.― how's life, Thursday, February 15, 2018 6:17 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkYou have exactly an hour to retract.― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 15, 2018 6:24 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I support drinking Old Fashioneds with Taylor.― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:44 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/36c99c24cf3adc58f07cf6d0eda116ca/tumblr_oxnxoqLPuD1vbpzfno8_500.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
i laughed out loud at HARD TIMES. dont think i caught that on the first go round.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
good god this song is just about a year old
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
god that colbert performance rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
wow!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 May 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Barbara Taylor3 days agoI actually like this found on mistake on late a TV show when I woke up in the middle of the morning and when I turned on my TV this came on. I liked it!! What l was she speaking in? I do not follow or believe in Stephen Colbert's Politics, but loved this act.
AddictedToPrismatic3 days agowas she in drugs?
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
Hard timss
― Peak redundacy (Ross), Sunday, 6 May 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
http://www.papermag.com/hayley-williams-op-ed-2573595188.html
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
hayley <3
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
oh also i finally saw them on this tour (at boston calling) and it was wonderful. we got kind of an abbreviated festival setlist; unexpectedly, they cut "misery business," and they played "idle worship"/"no friend." i was ecstatic
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
it was very good
― maura, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
I have a place in my heart for misery business, but would be fine with it if they rotated it out of their sets.
― how's life, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Saw them at Bonnaroo last weekend, they were great. Also did the Idle Worship/No Friend extended jam. And in the middle, Hayley gave this nice little talk, partly prompted by Anthony Bourdain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wII7lsPz42I
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
hey i was there too!
― maura, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
I saw yr write-ups for RS! Hope you enjoyed it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOY6KJlFEg
happy birthday to me
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
happy birthday!
Happy Taylorday!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Seeing them tonight with my older daughter, who is 13 and the perfect age for this.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 July 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Josh, that is going to be so amazing!!
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Monday, 2 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
lala la la la la lajust let meletyoudown
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 4 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
🌺 pic.twitter.com/1zdvccDA8a— hayley from Paramore (@yelyahwilliams) December 28, 2019
Umm isn’t Paramore already basically Hayley + friends
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
petals for armor has arrived
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 December 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
taylor is still supposed to be involved with petals for armor, right? so totally confused by this but looking forward to it anyway
― ufo, Sunday, 29 December 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
yes, though also everything known about petals for armor is still extremely speculative afaik
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
happy for whatever happens
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
ready to meet Taylor for negronis whatever happens
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
lol.https://www.instagram.com/p/CN6GxudJ7e0/?igshid=1l3a5wfyngoah
― peace, man, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paramore-new-album-interview-update-1282239/
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
Hayley Williams always knew her debut solo album, Petals for Armor, would be a detour, but she still felt anxious about getting Paramore back together after several years apart. But on the first day she, Taylor York, and Zac Farro reconnected at a Nashville studio space, those nerves quickly melted into relief.“We wrote and tracked something we loved and it actually surprised us,” Williams tells Rolling Stone in an email. “We kept joking it was all downhill from that point, but thank God we’ve been surprised a lot throughout this whole thing. I’m always waiting for the moment for us to know we’re onto something new and we’re not just rehashing the same shit. It was ‘Ain’t It Fun’ for our self-titled record, and ‘Hard Times’ or ‘Told You So’ for After Laughter. It’s not about it feeling like a hit so much as it’s a scary, exciting feeling that you’re treading uncharted waters. It keeps you curious. We got to feel that feeling early on this time.”
“We wrote and tracked something we loved and it actually surprised us,” Williams tells Rolling Stone in an email. “We kept joking it was all downhill from that point, but thank God we’ve been surprised a lot throughout this whole thing. I’m always waiting for the moment for us to know we’re onto something new and we’re not just rehashing the same shit. It was ‘Ain’t It Fun’ for our self-titled record, and ‘Hard Times’ or ‘Told You So’ for After Laughter. It’s not about it feeling like a hit so much as it’s a scary, exciting feeling that you’re treading uncharted waters. It keeps you curious. We got to feel that feeling early on this time.”
As for the album’s sound, Williams says she and York had been reminiscing on some of their earliest influences well before they began writing the LP. But she’s quick to note that that doesn’t necessarily mean the group is necessarily plotting a “comeback ‘emo’ record.”“The music we were first excited by wasn’t exactly the kind of music we went on to make,” Williams says. “Our output has always been all over the place and with this project, it’s not that different. We’re still in the thick of it but some things have remained consistent from the start. 1) More emphasis back on the guitar, and 2) Zac should go as Animal as he wants with drum takes.”
“The music we were first excited by wasn’t exactly the kind of music we went on to make,” Williams says. “Our output has always been all over the place and with this project, it’s not that different. We’re still in the thick of it but some things have remained consistent from the start. 1) More emphasis back on the guitar, and 2) Zac should go as Animal as he wants with drum takes.”
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
feeling good about this
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, December 28, 2019
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Thank god. I've been waiting for signs of life from these guys for a while.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
we've been living in
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
unreasonably excited. or reasonably. these folks, in whatever configuration, have really never failed me
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
otm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
1) More emphasis back on the guitar, and 2) Zac should go as Animal as he wants with drum takes
sounds good to me
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
Yeah I love After Laughter but I'm ready for more Paramore ROCK.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
please tell me this is when they make their Failure record
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
So, about half a year ago, Hayley mentioned in an interview
“We’ve thought about [the next Paramore album]. Taylor’s mentioned things like: ‘Oh, God – I miss guitars. We’ve found ourselves listening to a lot of older music that we grew up being inspired by. T and I liked stuff that was a bit more ratty sounding: The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All three of us loved Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Songs For The Deaf.’”
But yes, I hope for more Failure influence as well.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
time has proven every song on the second half of after laughter the greatest song of all time
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
you don't have to tell meif you ever think of mei know you see me dancing wildly in the fog of your memoryyou don't have to tell mei can still believe
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Um, what about the first half?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvs2JJuZwJ0
just posting a dope underrated paramore jam
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
^
huge stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOexnZpyM
― abcfsk, Sunday, 16 January 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
we’ve missed you. we’re playing When We Were Young Fest in Vegas on Oct 22nd. register for pre-sale now at https://t.co/y4F18MAQsO📸: @elkemusek pic.twitter.com/KHLR07Qq0k— paramore (@paramore) January 18, 2022
I'm looking forward to the day we'll have to start a new thread.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
I am NOT feeling that Taylor hair
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
that festival's lineup is fucking crazy, like someone cherry-picked the best years of warped tour
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
I'm sorry your man looks like a spaniel now, Alfred.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
Warped Tour Nostalgia=Next Big Thing!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
nice to see weird al's son getting out there and making a legacy of his own
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
*accordion lick**slide whistle*WHOOOOOA i never meant to bragbut i got him where i want him now *HONK*
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
hayley in orange, let's gooo
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
xp lol
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
1) More emphasis back on the guitar
Any word yet on who will be producing? I think the Justin Meldal-Johnsen partnership has been super beneficial and I'd hate for them to go back in the direction of the Rob Cavallo's of the world.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
no confirmation, i bet it's jmj tho
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
there are many studios and producers in california but i assume he's who they'd travel there for
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
Good good. I'm all for more guitars in line with the s/t.
I went back to their "You Ain't Woman Enough" cover recently, which is a fun Hayley karaoke belter. Have they done any other covers?
― Indexed, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
The last two Paramore albums and the solo Williams joint are among my favorite produced albums of all time. They sound *great*, super cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
Have they done any other covers?
― Indexed, Wednesday, January 19, 2022 7:51 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes! i'm a big fan of their failure cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqVVH5Ppyo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
The covered Passionfruit by Drake and Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac a lot live during the After Laughter tours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HsSjS6n-k
― peace, man, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
I'm not going to that whole festival, but a double-headline Paramore/MCR tour would be pretty much the highlight of any year for me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
Love that "Everywhere" cover -- a perfect fit with the After Laughter vibe.
The last two Paramore albums and the solo Williams joint are among my favorite produced albums of all time. They sound *great*, super cool.― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, January 19, 2022 8:57 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, January 19, 2022 8:57 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Agreed. Jon Caramanica once called the s/t "a mess", and I was personally offended.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
pretty sure they would play "everywhere" right after "forgiveness" which is indeed perfect
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 January 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/99o38wd53cr81.jpg
New pic of Hayley and Taylor hanging out with the Linda Lindas (half of the band's dad is Carlos de la Garza, who has done mixing/engineering on all the recent Paramore/Williams projects).
― peace, man, Sunday, 3 April 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
Hayley dueted on an acoustic Misery Business with Billie Eilish at Coachella
hayley williams wore toxicity & KO in her hair at coachella with billie eilish so I wore toxicity & KO in my hair at coachella pic.twitter.com/INmn4ZnMBv— Good Dye Young 🌈 (@gooddyeyoung) April 24, 2022
and Billie's Happily Ever After
Hayley also came back to sing ‘Happier than Ever’ with @billieeilish, last song of the setlist. pic.twitter.com/AcPby2S6Nk— PARAMORE ITALIA (@italiaparamore) April 24, 2022
― peace, man, Sunday, 24 April 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
Thought the "Misery Business" performance was cool til I watched the "Happier Than Ever" vid
hayley williams singing happier than ever with billie elish at #Coachella pic.twitter.com/0aMabFq6P9— ★ yelyah content ★ (@YELYAHCONTENT) April 24, 2022
― Indexed, Monday, 25 April 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
i thought she wasn't doing "Misery Business" anymore but i guess she'll dust it off for the right person? (not judging her for this)
― Murgatroid, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's interesting because they officially retired it in 2018, haven't done anything as a band since then, and Hayley made a point about it in 2020 when Spotify included MizBiz on some women in rock playlist. So it must be a case of the right person asking her. And they did sound fucking good together!
There's also ALL. THE. ATTENTION. the song has received in the past few years, with Willow Smith, Olivia Rodrigo, and Machine Gun Kelly all giving nods to Old Paramore.
I think I will save my disappointment for if Paramore The Band plays it live again.
― peace, man, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
is there a second Weird Al biopic Taylor is gunning for?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/4wia1iitjrv81.jpg
I'm thinking Marty Friedman.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
(if he grows it long enough)
They didn't officially retire it. She said they won't play it for a while. That they needed a break from it. So in fact they suggested it will be played again. And it probably should. Yeah it's mean in a not very modern way but it's also written by a teenager and true to that perspective. A song that good won't stay down.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link
Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if they re-wrote the lyrics. During the Eilish performance and the After Laughter tours, Hayley would change it up by just covering her mouth for the word "whore", but left the rest of the lyrics intact. I think there's room for interpretations of a "misery business" that could be interesting, where they could hang different ideas on the basic framework.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
They could change it to "bore", or "chore"... alotta options.
In other news, despite it's modest chart performance, "Hard Times" has become quite the CVS Jam.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
hayley's got a radio show called "everything is emo," first episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c3hp39
great set
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 29 April 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Hard times.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
touring this fall, registered for the “verified fan presale” lfggggg
this means a new album, right
seriously tho can anyone explain to me how this Ticketmaster Verified Fan bs keeps tickets from scalpers, do they think scalpers don’t know how to fill out a form or
― Murgatroid, Friday, 15 July 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Really digging their new profile banner, although I can't tell what the hell it's supposed to be. Definitely signals a break from the neon times of After Laughter.
― peace, man, Friday, 15 July 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
xpost I think it helps prevent bots from just gobbling up as much as possible. It's a bit like 2-step verification.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 July 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
So, about half a year ago, Hayley mentioned in an interview“We’ve thought about [the next Paramore album]. Taylor’s mentioned things like: ‘Oh, God – I miss guitars. We’ve found ourselves listening to a lot of older music that we grew up being inspired by. T and I liked stuff that was a bit more ratty sounding: The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All three of us loved Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Songs For The Deaf.’”But yes, I hope for more Failure influence as well.― peace, man, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:35 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
“We’ve thought about [the next Paramore album]. Taylor’s mentioned things like: ‘Oh, God – I miss guitars. We’ve found ourselves listening to a lot of older music that we grew up being inspired by. T and I liked stuff that was a bit more ratty sounding: The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All three of us loved Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Songs For The Deaf.’”But yes, I hope for more Failure influence as well.
― peace, man, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:35 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
In her podcast today, Hayley mentioned that Bloc Party was in the mix of influences as well. I know Bloc Party at all, and I didn't pay enough attention to the songs of theirs that she played, so guess I'll have to go back and dig into that.
We started working on new material as a band over the last year and a half - you know, the three of us, Zac, Taylor and I - and I just want to say it, I don't even feel like it gives away very much...Bloc Party, from day one, was the number one reference because, it was like, there was such an urgency to their sound that was different from the fast punk or the pop punk or the loud wall-of-sound emo bands that were happening in the early 2000s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cp486b
― peace, man, Friday, 29 July 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
wow wtf the paramore version of silent alarm would detonate my brain
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 July 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
!!!
― ufo, Friday, 29 July 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
― ufo, Friday, July 29, 2022
^^^ would pay to hear Paramore cover them too.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 July 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
the stated influences make me think the album's going to sound like "fast in my car"
― ufo, Friday, 29 July 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
They've changed their instagram profile pics. Something will be happening soon.
Paramore just changed their profile picture on Instagram. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/t0qTuGlPhk— PARAMORE ITALIA (@italiaparamore) September 7, 2022
― peace, man, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
there was the rumour of something being released on the 9th
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
NOVO VÍDEO POSTADO PELO PARAMORE! pic.twitter.com/fIVF2Qt4iE— Paramore Brasil 🖤 (@paramorebrasil) September 8, 2022
snippet of new track released on their discord last night. Rumors were going around that Hayley might drop the new track on her BBC Sounds podcast today, but now there are concerns that the podcast will be delayed due to British problems.
― peace, man, Friday, 9 September 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link
didn't y'all literally go to war to avoid showing deference to the monarchy come on Hayley
― Murgatroid, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
her radio show where new music was rumored to be premiered is on the bbc which stands for Big Boot liCkers
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
Hey the snippet sounds promising and this is on their website:
9.1 - discord9.7 - blank9.9 - wr0ng9.12 - L A9.16 -9.19 - start spreading the news.9.28 -
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
"L A" just meant two more shows in Los Angeles, which seems like a subpar payoff for a cryptic hint.
― peace, man, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
lol that's exactly what I suspected, not v cryptic at all???
― Murgatroid, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
a lot of people thought it was misdirection and that L A would stand for the title of a single, perhaps.
― peace, man, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
new clip from the song.
https://www.tiktok.com/@isthiswhyisthisiswhy/video/7141807075423718698?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
― peace, man, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Sept. 28
“This Is Why,” the song. Sept 28. Pre-save: https://t.co/wpwFvGNPJb pic.twitter.com/U1hZWh2Ind— paramore (@paramore) September 16, 2022
― Murgatroid, Friday, 16 September 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
album is apparently also titled this is why, out february 10
― ufo, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 06:19 (one year ago) link
5 minutes until the video premier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9g0L5eiGgc
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
fucking fuck yeah
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIYJ7VaSxYY
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
That new song is great, love hearing something that doesn't remind me of much besides the band playing it. pretty neat hearing these sort of subtle psych rock flourishes butt up against post punk.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah that's good fun, that is.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
xp: yeah, it really felt like Zac had a hand in the writing of the song.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
oh this sounds so much like foals lol
it's decent, definitely hear that they're into silent alarm at the moment. looking forward to more simultaneously loose & spiky post-punk
― ufo, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
i like that it hasn't left the after laughter sound behind entirely either but is intent on making it murkier like fog-clouded glass
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
i will be singing the chorus of this song to myself every time i have to leave the house for the rest of my life probably
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
also makes me think what if "now" got reconfigured by the much groovier band they became on the last album, down to the bridge being the emotional climax of the song
would listen to a whole album of just taylor york playing guitar, dude is so tasteful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
glad they continue to be the best band of all time
Nice.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/a4aEfY3.gif
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
even the typeface pic.twitter.com/NCnHC6HpdW— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) September 28, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
i love this song, perfect direction for them to go in (if the rest of the album is like this)
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
I like this a lot, it reminds me of Lonelady which is not what I was expecting.
OTOH the only good reason to delay the album until next year is to maximise ILM poll placement opportunities.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
Do any of you know what's behind long-ass album rollouts these days? There seem to be more of them lately, where the initial single will be released 5-6 months before the album comes out (see also Charli XCX's last album). I've seen people speculate that it is related to vinyl manufacturing delays. But if that's the case, why not just hold the single until it is closer to the time for the records to be ready?
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I don't know what the strategy actually is supposed to be, but for me it feels like an album getting perpetually released over the course of several weeks/months, to the extent that when it actually does come out I sometimes miss it or forget to listen to it. Happened most recently with Beach House, maybe, and perhaps the Beths. I worry it will happen with this and the 1975. For sure it happened with the Hayley Williams solo album.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
the 1975 have regularly done absurdly long rollouts which seems to be in significant part due to their own disorganisation, but they also love drip-feeding singles
paramore go on tour next week so i'd imagine they probably already had the tour booked & wanted to have new music out before then but the release got held up due to vinyl manufacturing delays & this is the compromise
both of those are different to the beach house/hayley solo album cases though where they were released essentially as a series of multiple EPs - idk what's with that as an approach, it's been common enough in recent years, but i can't think of anything where i've appreciated it
― ufo, Thursday, 29 September 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
opening 30 seconds sounds like poppy Broadcast. god if the rest of the album is even in that vein.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 29 September 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
ah they're not working with jmj this album, that's a shame - guess he's too busy with st vincent recently. it's being produced by carlos de la garza who engineered & mixed the last two + hayley's solo albums
― ufo, Thursday, 29 September 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
xxp: trying to line things up with tours could be a reasonable explanation. Another example that I heard people talking about was Muse. The first single off this year's album debuted in January, but the album wasn't released until August. However, it looks like their world tour started in April, so that scenario could make sense.
Anyway, back to Paramore.
It sounds to me like the guys are singing background on the chorus, but I'm not totally sure. Anyone else hear that?
Zac's drumming is great.
Add this to the long list of Paramore songs that use "falling" as a metaphor.
― peace, man, Thursday, 29 September 2022 11:02 (one year ago) link
it looks like muse were just booked for all the summer festivals & probably would have liked to have been able to get the album out before them but couldn't. the dates before that were just a few promo shows it looks like. an eight month rollout is pretty silly yeah.
― ufo, Thursday, 29 September 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
apparently in addition to all the 00s dance-punk influences they were also really into the second rhcp album during recording??
― ufo, Thursday, 29 September 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
imo… hell yeah
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 September 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Best Chi-Peps record to be into.
― peace, man, Thursday, 29 September 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
"Chi-Peps" makes them sound like a delicious early '70s vocal group lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 September 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
Chi-Lites first top 10 hit was called "Give It Away."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
― peace, man, Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:15 PM (yesterday)
i don't think majors would severely alter plans for any important album over vinyl manufacturing. this is just a personal theory but i think artists started to see fewer and fewer returns on the surprise or one week timeline style album drop. i think when that idea was fresh it was a way to cut thru the noise and get attention on the album, i think at a certain point it became so common place that it stopped having the intended effect of bringing the music world to a screeching halt. ari lennox just a really short announcement to release plan and her album underperformed pretty severely. my sense is that labels/artists are starting to swing back in the other direction and feel like a steady drip of "content" is what is going to keep a new album in people's minds for more than 48 hours
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 September 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
That sucks about the Lennox album.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
More acts should do what Trent Reznor did and just leave new songs on thumb drives in public bathrooms.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
If you use a streaming service that brings to your attention new releases by artists you've listened to before (as Spotify does), then a steady drip of content is also going to bring the artist to the top of your "feed" and more occasions, resulting in a greater likelihood of you remembering to listen.
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 September 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
longer rollouts make sense in a world where people are constantly moving onto the next thing. the longer the rollout, the longer the conversation lasts.
it reminds me of streaming television switching away from the binge model
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 29 September 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
it’s funny because in the cd era, album rollout would routinely take months, and now we’re back baby
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 September 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Isn't that an attempt to stop people constantly switching between streaming platforms? If you release episodes over more than five weeks, users will have to keep their subscription for more than a month, rather than bingeing it all in a month then switching over to another platform.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 29 September 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
beyonce's was pretty compact compared to all these other examples though - announced two months before release, lead single a month before release, that's it
― ufo, Thursday, 29 September 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
yeah but still there seemed to be an expectation that it would just drop suddenly whenever but they clearly went a different route if not to the extent as some of these others
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 September 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:01 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago)
i think netflix et al saw the same thing about shows dropping all at once and then falling out of the cultural conversation a very short time later
Ugh! Imagine awakening to this news:
Hayley Williams and Taylor York are officially dating pic.twitter.com/OevKzJ23T1— Etalk (@etalkCTV) September 29, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
So sorry, Alfred.
― peace, man, Friday, 30 September 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
Fuck!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
what if they become polymore, theres still a window here
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, 30 September 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
oh polymooooooorrebroke my heartnow I'm achin for youuuu
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
and after all this time…I’m still into youand you and you
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 September 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
album tracklist:
This Is WhyThe NewsRunning Out of TimeC'est Comme ÇaBig Man, Little DignityYou FirstFigure 8LiarCraveThick Skull
unfortunately they're not playing any new songs on tour beyond the single yet
― ufo, Monday, 3 October 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
Here's the live debut of This Is Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYeqd6bB20g
Also MizBiz is back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNMulOAE84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33FuwWjit4
― peace, man, Monday, 3 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
I like how she lets the audience handle the offending lyric.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
This is too good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgO2N6-kJsI
― abcfsk, Monday, 10 October 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Rewatching the live. It's still very good.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1B9mpn_OGQ
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
North America. Summer 2023.Verified Fan Registration is open now through 11/7 at 11:59PM ET at https://t.co/nxOAggiF9T. Public on sale starts 11/11 at 10am local at https://t.co/rLpvB2HWsR. pic.twitter.com/gb1WNfo2dJ— paramore (@paramore) November 4, 2022
guessing the lack of Chicago means Lollapalooza... boo hiss
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
got a ticket for their show here in Toronto, nosebleeds for $60, which is just about how much i'm willing to pay to see them
― Murgatroid, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
Three times in the last week I thought "maybe I will try to get tickets to see such and such," and all three times I learned that the show already happened, including Paramore's.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
I forgot that tickets went on sale today! The cheapest nosebleeds left in DC are $125 plus fees, and to be honest that's just not worth it to me. Oh well.
― peace, man, Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
8 years ago - arguably at the height of their popularity, co-headlining with Fall Out Boy - the cost of my ticket, fees included, was half of that. Insane
― Vinnie, Saturday, 12 November 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
And that was also in the DC area, just so we're comparing apples
― Vinnie, Saturday, 12 November 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
Completely awesome performance of "This Is Why" on of all things The Tonight Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naygrknW6wc
― Devilock, Monday, 14 November 2022 07:28 (one year ago) link
PARAMORE AIRDROPPED ME AFTER THE SHOW IN NYC?!!?? AFTER THE BEACON THEATRE SHOW!!!! WHAT IS THIS IM FREAKING OUT pic.twitter.com/MpRvwtzoBW— deadboy (@deadboy28) November 14, 2022
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 14 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSFa_wOZPXg
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 December 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Huh. There's some pretty wild stuff going on in that song.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 December 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Albums covers Music Videos that depict the artists hanging out with their clones
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Rockin tune
― abcfsk, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Love it. These songs compliment each other very well and I can't wait to hear them in the context of the full record.
― peace, man, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
Just noticed how much she looks like British actress Amelia Bullmore. Anyway, amazing song, never given Paramore a second thought before now but I love both of these new songs.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
this album's gonna rule
― ufo, Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
I like it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
The subtle little Whammy-pedal bend by Taylor in the chorus rules.
― peace, man, Friday, 9 December 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
Really like this one too. Feels like they're kind of stitching together all of the stuff they do well, the pop and the emo and the postpunk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
sounds like a great BNE evolution - really appreciate how they kept it at a tight 3 minutes.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 9 December 2022 06:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/paramore-hayley-williams-black-community-music-fans-misery-business-3366104
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
these new songs are so fucking good
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
The newest single, c'est comme ca, is out now.
― peace, man, Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGeMr5iXoA
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
love this, very much pro paramore going post-punk
― Roz, Friday, 13 January 2023 06:45 (one year ago) link
For each song in the rollout, my initial reaction has been "I don't know. Am I on board with this? Does this do it for me?" And then I listen to it 2 or 3 more times before my mind latches onto it and after that, I listen to it for the rest of the day.
― peace, man, Friday, 13 January 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
yeah not sure about this but I didn't like after laughter at first either so I assume I'll love it soon
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 13 January 2023 12:54 (one year ago) link
There’s a real cohesion in sound when you listen to all three songs in a row - feels like they’ve been listening to a lot of early 00s dance/post-punk
Hayley mentioned Dry Cleaning and Yard Act as inspirations for the latest track, which makes sense
― Roz, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Dry Cleaning makes sense. I've never heard Yard Act, so I'll have to give them a try. The vocals on the chorus remind me of Cansei de Ser Sexy.
― peace, man, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
But yeah, I agree that everything makes increasing sense in context. Can't wait for the album, but I also hope we don't get any more singles before it's released.
― peace, man, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
The vocals on the chorus remind me of Cansei de Ser Sexy.
― peace, man, Friday, January 13, 2023 7:20 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
haha good comparison
love the new song, everything sounds so sharp
i do hope there's at least one moment on the album where a guitar sounds like a mouth opening e.g. "future"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 January 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
Ha it does sound like Dry Cleaning. Yard Act album is good. Reminds me of Art Brut.
― Indexed, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Billboard feature
https://www.billboard.com/music/features/paramore-this-is-why-new-album-cover-story-interview-1235201005/
― Indexed, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
The band wrote the album’s closing track, “Thick Skull,” a marked sonic departure from After Laughter, on day one. “It had these shades of a few different eras of us being music fans, loving heavy, drone-y, almost shoegaze-y moments,” says Williams, also citing York’s clashing guitar patterns, Farro’s thunderous bursts of drumming and even her own rare piano playing on the song. “I was like, ‘Man, this sounds like a band I would love.’ ”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, January 13, 2023 9:25 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/325/eyes_1f440.png
Fat Mike [of NOFX] used to tell people that I gave good rim jobs onstage when I was 19 years old.
Ugh. Fuck that clown.
“It’s kind of like people see us like [The] Princess Diaries,” Farro explains. “They didn’t see the beauty, but we threw off the glasses.”
Take us to film school, Zac.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
I figured it out: Taylor grew that hair to spite me.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQx8hiCHX8I
if you're impatient this is so so good. can't wait for friday
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
Need a new album thread!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
many XP but wrt the heavy/drone-y quote I’ve wished for years they’d do something in the vein of “you were holding an umbrella” by Boris.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
well "future" isn't thaaat far off?
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
there's a whole lot of clips of listening parties floating around, don't think we're going to be disappointed
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
i was thinking more "all i wanted" but with the vocals tearing it along with the noise. but "future" is pretty much in that direction.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link
I heard the album at work today. It's so good.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
first impression is this is the greatest album of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
gonna start a new thread today
this / is why / i have made a thread: in which paramore make combat rock: THIS IS WHY (2023) album discussion thread
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link