Remember when they used to make angsty teen emo punk music? Then next album was far more upbeat pop punk. Next was alt rock more than pop punk. Next was basically all power pop. Next they went new...
Remember when they used to make angsty teen emo punk music? Then next album was far more upbeat pop punk. Next was alt rock more than pop punk. Next was basically all power pop. Next they went new wavey / 80s pop throwback. Now they're doing a much more mature sounding post-punk / indie rock thing in this latest album. And I have loved it all.
Has any other band matured and changed their sound as much as Paramore has over the years?
p.s. Hayley still looks and sounds absolutely amazing too.
Haley Williams is such a talent. When I was looking up this video on YouTube, the video for Misery Business showed up below it, with the band in the thumbnail, and I was taken aback by how young...
Haley Williams is such a talent. When I was looking up this video on YouTube, the video for Misery Business showed up below it, with the band in the thumbnail, and I was taken aback by how young they are in it. She put out the amazing and iconic RIOT! album when she was only nineteen. Absolutely incredible.
Also, the evolution of the band’s sound has been impressive. I’m really enjoying their new album, which feels part-Paramore, part-Williams’s solo stuff. I also need to go back to After Laughter. I skipped that one for some strange reason (maybe because I hate the cover art?), and it’s considered by many to be their best.
That genuinely surprises me. I assumed it would be right up your alley. You should definitely give it a listen, since I strongly suspect you won't be disappointed. I much prefer Hayley's solo...
I also need to go back to After Laughter. I skipped that one for some strange reason...
That genuinely surprises me. I assumed it would be right up your alley. You should definitely give it a listen, since I strongly suspect you won't be disappointed. I much prefer Hayley's solo albums, especially Petals For Armor (which I still listen to on the regular), but of Paramore's albums, After Laughter is easily my favorite, and the one I have probably listened to the most.
It's on my list! Once I move This Is Why out of my regular rotation, After Laughter is taking its place. Also I made a joke about the album art above (which I do legitimately dislike), but I...
It's on my list! Once I move This Is Why out of my regular rotation, After Laughter is taking its place.
Also I made a joke about the album art above (which I do legitimately dislike), but I actually think the album was a casualty of my move from a curated music library to streaming. I can't remember exactly when, but sometime in the mid-2010s I moved from having a mostly curated music library diligently ripped from CDs, to signing up for a streaming service. After I did that, I slowly got massive library creep and overextended myself, adding hundreds of artists and thousands of albums.
Ironically, having access to more music made me listen to less of it. It also kind of killed my interest in music in general, because I spread myself way too thin and couldn't ever develop an appreciation of what I was listening to.
After Google Play Music shut down in 2020, I gave myself a sort of musical fresh start and began cultivating a smaller library again, with more of an effort made to listen to and appreciate music in the way I used to -- listening to full albums and returning to them to better get to know them over time.
For a lot of bands I've followed for a long time, there's a continuity gap in the mid-2010s, and I'm pretty sure this is why (lol) After Laughter never got any actual play from me.
Remember when they used to make angsty teen emo punk music? Then next album was far more upbeat pop punk. Next was alt rock more than pop punk. Next was basically all power pop. Next they went new wavey / 80s pop throwback. Now they're doing a much more mature sounding post-punk / indie rock thing in this latest album. And I have loved it all.
Has any other band matured and changed their sound as much as Paramore has over the years?
p.s. Hayley still looks and sounds absolutely amazing too.
Haley Williams is such a talent. When I was looking up this video on YouTube, the video for Misery Business showed up below it, with the band in the thumbnail, and I was taken aback by how young they are in it. She put out the amazing and iconic RIOT! album when she was only nineteen. Absolutely incredible.
Also, the evolution of the band’s sound has been impressive. I’m really enjoying their new album, which feels part-Paramore, part-Williams’s solo stuff. I also need to go back to After Laughter. I skipped that one for some strange reason (maybe because I hate the cover art?), and it’s considered by many to be their best.
That genuinely surprises me. I assumed it would be right up your alley. You should definitely give it a listen, since I strongly suspect you won't be disappointed. I much prefer Hayley's solo albums, especially Petals For Armor (which I still listen to on the regular), but of Paramore's albums, After Laughter is easily my favorite, and the one I have probably listened to the most.
It's on my list! Once I move This Is Why out of my regular rotation, After Laughter is taking its place.
Also I made a joke about the album art above (which I do legitimately dislike), but I actually think the album was a casualty of my move from a curated music library to streaming. I can't remember exactly when, but sometime in the mid-2010s I moved from having a mostly curated music library diligently ripped from CDs, to signing up for a streaming service. After I did that, I slowly got massive library creep and overextended myself, adding hundreds of artists and thousands of albums.
Ironically, having access to more music made me listen to less of it. It also kind of killed my interest in music in general, because I spread myself way too thin and couldn't ever develop an appreciation of what I was listening to.
After Google Play Music shut down in 2020, I gave myself a sort of musical fresh start and began cultivating a smaller library again, with more of an effort made to listen to and appreciate music in the way I used to -- listening to full albums and returning to them to better get to know them over time.
For a lot of bands I've followed for a long time, there's a continuity gap in the mid-2010s, and I'm pretty sure this is why (lol) After Laughter never got any actual play from me.