paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

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

any dates for this?

it's expected to come out early next year

justin mendal-jonsen is producing again. zac farro on drums

❤️❤️❤️

meldal-johnsen* lol

:D

bummed about farro tbh, rubin on drums was so A++

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsdhY8nWcAARfZc.jpg

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZMPmqAQc1/

(done with recording in Nashville)

Hope those are the only instruments they used.

Hayley Williams on Vox and Electric Nipper

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.

those are all just big hat boxes imo

question for paramore expert: what i can expect of this album based purely off the hair colour

She was blonde for parts of the "Brand New Eyes" era, so..

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!

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.

https://twitter.com/paramore/status/801463457451278336

Finished with the L.A. portions of the album?

https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/824692432604397569

@jeffgliponeo

are you guys 90% done with 5more? say something.

@yelyahwilliams

91%

http://i.imgur.com/wkzEVmA.jpg

Is this going to be insanely ott/ambitious

Coz they can't pull out of the trajectory now

zac farro officially back in the band

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQBYXlIjkKo/

that seems like a big deal

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

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

Drumming on "ignorance" is insane good.

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

They realized a two person band would look a little underwhelming on the cover.

lol

aren't they a couple though, that opens up absurdly cutesy/nauseating/lovely possibilities

?

The two dudes are so cute.

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

:/

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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))

yeah this is a more accurate portrait of what's going on in that record

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.

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.

i don't think i realized before how indebted "turn it off" is to jimmy eat world's "work"

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

aaron weiss from mewithoutyou is on this record

xp: Just got done listening to that interview. No new album news in it.

hey i was there too!

I saw yr write-ups for RS! Hope you enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOY6KJlFEg

happy birthday to me

happy birthday!

Happy Taylorday!

Seeing them tonight with my older daughter, who is 13 and the perfect age for this.

Josh, that is going to be so amazing!!

la
la la la la la la
just let me
let
you
down

🌺 pic.twitter.com/1zdvccDA8a

— hayley from Paramore (@yelyahwilliams) December 28, 2019

Umm isn’t Paramore already basically Hayley + friends

petals for armor has arrived

taylor is still supposed to be involved with petals for armor, right? so totally confused by this but looking forward to it anyway

yes, though also everything known about petals for armor is still extremely speculative afaik

happy for whatever happens

ready to meet Taylor for negronis whatever happens

lol.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CN6GxudJ7e0/?igshid=1l3a5wfyngoah

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paramore-new-album-interview-update-1282239/

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.”

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.”

feeling good about this

ready to meet Taylor for negronis whatever happens

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, December 28, 2019

Thank god. I've been waiting for signs of life from these guys for a while.

we've been living in

hard times

unreasonably excited. or reasonably. these folks, in whatever configuration, have really never failed me

otm

1) More emphasis back on the guitar, and 2) Zac should go as Animal as he wants with drum takes

sounds good to me

Yeah I love After Laughter but I'm ready for more Paramore ROCK.

please tell me this is when they make their Failure record

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.

time has proven every song on the second half of after laughter the greatest song of all time

you don't have to tell me
if you ever think of me
i know you see me dancing wildly in the fog of your memory
you don't have to tell me
i can still believe

Um, what about the first half?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvs2JJuZwJ0

just posting a dope underrated paramore jam

^

huge stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOexnZpyM

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.

I am NOT feeling that Taylor hair

that festival's lineup is fucking crazy, like someone cherry-picked the best years of warped tour

I'm sorry your man looks like a spaniel now, Alfred.

Warped Tour Nostalgia=Next Big Thing!

nice to see weird al's son getting out there and making a legacy of his own

*accordion lick*
*slide whistle*
WHOOOOOA i never meant to brag
but i got him where i want him now *HONK*

hayley in orange, let's gooo

xp lol

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.

no confirmation, i bet it's jmj tho

there are many studios and producers in california but i assume he's who they'd travel there for

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?

The last two Paramore albums and the solo Williams joint are among my favorite produced albums of all time. They sound *great*, super cool.

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

The covered Passionfruit by Drake and Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac a lot live during the After Laughter tours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoj_3r9oqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HsSjS6n-k

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.

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

Agreed. Jon Caramanica once called the s/t "a mess", and I was personally offended.

pretty sure they would play "everywhere" right after "forgiveness" which is indeed perfect