paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

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.

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

this record is perfect and your life is in shambles, friend

lol that video!

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

It could been promoted 24 hours a day in 2017 and it wouldn't have made a difference. These songs don't fit formats.

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

it's a halfnoise (zac's band) song

Ain’t it Fun live is the best thing

saw them at radio city and really enjoyed it

fake happy up there with my SOTY

https://youtu.be/_SuSvSH0gtM

Taylor talking extensively about his guitar gear.

he's so beautiful

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

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

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Tried to find a thread for this list.

Pool would be in my top 5

Alfred you linked to your wordpress backend. What's your password? :)

lol

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

you are the waaaaave

I want to know what Taylor does to keep his hair so awesome.

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

omg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5ueE2vUm0

man dude, my eyes started welling up at the part with young hayley.

it got to me too

did they mix up the video treatments for this and "fake happy"

they seem fun

https://media.giphy.com/media/l4pTpAc88oa9pQttS/giphy.gif

I can't

this is their best video i think?

i think it's even better than my other fav, "the only exception"

yehhh top video

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.

it was a flop, they have toured and are touring behind it

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.

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.

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.

apropos of nothing "Forgiveness" reminds me of The Orb's "Star 6 7 8 9" or whatever it was called

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.

You have exactly an hour to retract.

lol, it would never happen. I could see them adding more psych pop elements to their sound though. Dude loves his pedals.

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

I bet everybody here is fake happy too pic.twitter.com/sztBARpIh8

— Kenny G (@kennyg) March 29, 2018

oh man. would love to see a collab

no fuckin way

reasonable dancing?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhSVGuNlvDv/?taken-by=paramoremusicom