5 votes

Paramore - Decode (2008)

7 comments

  1. [7]
    vakieh
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    A good song from a good band that was utterly ruined by association to a particular film with a particular fanbase that then skewed what the band did after that (because money, and who the fuck...

    A good song from a good band that was utterly ruined by association to a particular film with a particular fanbase that then skewed what the band did after that (because money, and who the fuck could blame them?).

    1. IncreaseTheDosage
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      Their newer stuff is completely dissociated from that, I would say. Check it out, if you didn't!

      Their newer stuff is completely dissociated from that, I would say. Check it out, if you didn't!

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      frostycakes
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      Eh, it takes a special level of out of touch to be a wealthy, attractive person that sings a song like Ain't it Fun. I dunno Hayley, since you've never lived there yourself. That song alone has...

      Eh, it takes a special level of out of touch to be a wealthy, attractive person that sings a song like Ain't it Fun. I dunno Hayley, since you've never lived there yourself. That song alone has forever put me off Paramore.

      It feels like a modern "let them eat cake", and it doesn't help that it's in the daily rotation at my workplace on top of it

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        vakieh
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        Out of touch? It's just pop crap that sells, just like I said (look at country music, people with millions singing about their rusted out truck they've never driven and working on ranches covered...

        Out of touch? It's just pop crap that sells, just like I said (look at country music, people with millions singing about their rusted out truck they've never driven and working on ranches covered in dust they would never get within a mile of). Not to mention wealthy people can still have it rough - at least one celebrity seems to top themselves per year, so it's not as though money can make things perfect.

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        1. [2]
          frostycakes
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          I recognize that, but it doesn't change the feeling of condescension I get from it every time I hear it. I also despise the "don't go crying to your momma" line coming from anyone. That one is...

          I recognize that, but it doesn't change the feeling of condescension I get from it every time I hear it. I also despise the "don't go crying to your momma" line coming from anyone. That one is most likely just a personal trigger (I was told that repeatedly while being beaten as a child), but the entire song just rubs me wrong, especially coming from someone who has been comfortable her whole life, and kills my already-low opinion of their music as a whole.

          1. vakieh
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            OK now I know you're just making claims from ignorance. How can you think you know so much about someone else's life to pronounce judgement like that? From a 5 second google here is a line from...

            OK now I know you're just making claims from ignorance. How can you think you know so much about someone else's life to pronounce judgement like that? From a 5 second google here is a line from the singer's bio:

            Born and raised in Mississippi, Williams moved to Tennessee at the age of 15 when her parents divorced.

            That doesn't sound particularly comfortable. Sure, it's not the story of a blind starving orphan beaten daily with a degenerative muscular disease, but you don't get to invalidate someone's potential for feeling like that because someone else might have had it worse.

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      2. Deimos
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        This seems like a really strange judgment to apply to music. Does it only apply to the vocalist? What if the drummer hasn't lived the experiences in the songs? How does it work if the vocalist...

        This seems like a really strange judgment to apply to music. Does it only apply to the vocalist? What if the drummer hasn't lived the experiences in the songs? How does it work if the vocalist isn't the same person that writes the lyrics (which is quite common)?