paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

i can't disagree harder w/ any opinion than the idea that those guitar parts on the paramore album aren't awesome

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.

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

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xp: Evan, I can totally understand why this style might not be someone's bag too. Sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vsuOXZBXc

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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.

1:05 made me remember the "yells at a butt" comment from the gangnam style thread.

Is Taylor naked in it

I love this song

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.

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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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