paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/774056755370131457

hayley from ParamoreVerified account
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@katieee03 this is just my "off time" hair lol... Keeping a blank slate for now!

― how's life, Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:46 (one year ago) Permalink

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 (one year ago) Permalink

two months pass...

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

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

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:49 (ten months ago) Permalink

two months pass...

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:55 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

zac farro officially back in the band

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:37 (eight months ago) Permalink

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

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:38 (eight months ago) Permalink

that seems like a big deal

― Spottie, Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:44 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

Drumming on "ignorance" is insane good.

― Tim F, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:32 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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

― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:44 (eight months ago) Permalink

lol

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:45 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:47 (eight months ago) Permalink

The two dudes are so cute.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:49 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

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 (eight months ago) Permalink

one month passes...

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 months ago) Permalink

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 months ago) Permalink

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

― how's life, Thursday, 16 March 2017 13:41 (seven months ago) Permalink

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wouldn't kick it with you after you hit that ground

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:51 (four months ago) Permalink

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 (four months ago) Permalink

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 (four months ago) Permalink

i'm telling you, pop radio is allergic to women who don't sound catatonic these days

― 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 (four months ago) Permalink

has it been remarked that "forgiveness" sounds like a christine mcvie-penned FM song?

― nice cage (m bison), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:24 (four months ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUQc48x8Gc

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:39 (four months ago) Permalink

holy god

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:54 (four months ago) Permalink

fuck me up

― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 June 2017 14:42 (four months ago) Permalink

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 (four months ago) Permalink

I don’t really care about Fleetwood Mac. They should play some Staind.

― the ghost of markers, Friday, 16 June 2017 16:34 (four months ago) Permalink

your mom should play some staind

― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 16 June 2017 16:59 (four months ago) Permalink

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

― MarkoP, Monday, 19 June 2017 14:51 (four months ago) Permalink

she sounds terrific

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 June 2017 15:06 (four months ago) Permalink

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 (four months ago) Permalink

you might say so

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 June 2017 20:26 (four months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

Hearing XTC in Idle Worship and some other songs.

― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:16 (three months ago) Permalink

top 5 of the year so far for me

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 3 July 2017 21:18 (three months ago) Permalink

same

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 July 2017 21:42 (three months ago) Permalink

Top 1 for me

― nice cage (m bison), Monday, 3 July 2017 22:33 (three months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

Still love this band but this album is tacky

― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:48 (three months ago) Permalink

You know who else is tacky?

― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:49 (three months ago) Permalink

Your MAMA

― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:50 (three months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

Tacky

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 23:50 (three months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

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 (three months ago) Permalink

This is why we don't drive on people's asses, Albuquerque.

― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:57 (three months ago) Permalink

two months pass...

good show. the fleetwood mac cover is really good.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:52 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

the album isn't even 40 minutes of polyrhythmic beach party paramore

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:18 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Yeah, I'm sure the next album cycle will bring more change.

― how's life, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:48 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

strong disagree

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:55 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Taylor York has stepped up to every challenge since 2010.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:49 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

youuuuuuuuu
you want forgivenesssssssssss

― professor of postmalonial studies (m bison), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:03 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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