Paramore - This Is Why (February 10, 2023) Album • Page 104

Watching Paramore Tiktok live stream opening up for Taylor Swift tonight. Opened with "This Is Why" followed up with "Hard Times"

EDIT: Now "That's What You Get". Crowd is SUPER engaged from what I'm seeing. So cool to see in a venue this size.

 

Paramore Setlist at State Farm Stadium, Glendale

Pretty standard

 

I think there may be one Exception

 

I don't think I'll be able to see them anytime soon, but I'd really like to see "Fake Happy" in more of these setlists.

 

They ripped the stadium apart last night. In a just society, Paramore would be playing headlong shows that big. I am bummed they didn’t play any new songs but This Is Why, but I guess I understand

 

Goddamn.

 

So was this record a success? Hasn't been out that long and it seems to have faded pretty quickly.

 

It was a success for me, I know that much!

 

Agreed! Just haven't seen it translate into sustained chart success this era.

 

[insert again seriously gif]

 

That’s almost every album.


I don’t see the latest from Beyonce or Drake constantly being talked about a ton but would say those were successful albums.

EDIT: Even Midnights as an album has faded. Seems like her fans care more about the upcoming re-releases and the current tour highlighting her full catalog.

 

i don't think i've listened to this since february, even though i like it quite a bit. but really, there's such an abundance of new music these days, i don't stick with any new album for as long as i did back in the day when i only had like 10 CDs to pick between.

 

I think we'll see the full impact after their summer tour. Hopefully it'll catch on more then

 

I think of it more of an "era" than album. Like the this is why run/era for Paramore is an absolute success. This is why was a huge hit for alternative music. They're headlining major festivals. And followed with a few solid singles and yeah, this wasn't my favorite album but in terms of success.... I'm sure Paramore is happy

 

I still listen to it regularly, I haven't noticed it fading

 

Listening to it rn lol

 

This Is Why isn't even on the Top 200 right now, only a few months after release. I understand physical sales are a thing of the past, but you're telling me records like "Nothing Was The Same" (#156) from Drake, The Very Best of Hall & Oates (#186) and Top Gun Maverick Soundtrack (#179) are getting more streams?

 

To be fair, the Beyonce album has been talked about a lot, just not on here because this isn't a pop forum haha

 

An album from the biggest hip hop artist of the decade (#156), a greatest hits album from a well regarded pop rock band from the 70s and 80s (#186) and a soundtrack from one of the biggest movies of 2022 (#179). Yes it is not outside the realm of possibility for those albums to hang on longer than an alternative rock band, even one as popular as Paramore.

 

I have to remind myself sometimes that I'd rather have the bonds with albums I had back in those 10 CD days than hear everything. I don't want to just stream 20 new albums a week and then never listen to them again. It's a tough balancing act to strike, because I love discovering new stuff, but I've found it's so easy to lose the plot when you're only doing that.

In other words, spend more time with the albums you really like, Brad!

 

Wise words.

I usually listen to one for a week or so nonstop, and then another album comes out that i listen to nonstop, and then eventually i go back to listening to the first one again. for example, i listened to the newest Taylor Swift one until Paramore came out, spent some time with Paramore, and now i'm back in Taylor Swift land (with some Fall Out Boy sprinkled in.)

Andrew WK once told me (for real) that his favorite way to listen to albums is spending a whole month with it where you just listen to nothing but that album (assuming you love it) and then go a month cold turkey from it. and then when you go back to it a month later, you fall in love with it all over again.

 

yeah but was it a success?

 

Good advice, Andrew WK!

 

I don't even know what metrics are used in 2023 to qualify any album as success and how, to be honest. I'll see their Instagram posts when they're on stage in front of what looks like packed crowds and that's all I need. I feel extremely out of the loop otherwise.

 

Ok but what do you do when like 8 artists and bands you really truly love release albums within a 2 month period because that's how the last couple months have been for me and I am overwhelmed