Paramore - After Laughter (May 12th, 2017) Album • Page 72

It's like 3 minutes of repetitive music and you can't even hear what the person is saying.

 

The album is great on first listen. Songs that stood out to me at first: Hard Times, Told You So, Fake Happy, 26, Caught in the Middle, Tell Me How.

For some reason, I was feeling like I had already heard the chorus of Tell Me How somewhere. Also, how can you skip 26? Is so good!

 

"No Friend" lyrics:

Another brick red room
Another black-top town
Another misspelled band burning their own houses down
Another pinebox tomb to fill the cemetery dead
Another star, a touch of orange over purgatory grey
Another void to fill
Just scattered fruitless seed
Another song I wrote that's too long
God knows no one needs
More misguided ghosts, more transparent hands
We'll drop a nickel in our basket and we'll do our riot dance
Beneath another burning sky, behind our parented verses
Scores of catatonic smile covered assholes in a ship
Layered by the school, so you can definitely see
Can you forget these things?
Perfection from the paper thief
Perfection you project on me
Behind the window shades
I'm semi-conscious, already sleepin' in the bed I made
That most unrestful bed, that most original sin
What they act when I let ambition win
I'd hate to let you down
Thrown in a web with all his lies
Drown my dull reflection in a naive expectation arise
Back in the casket park
Back when I felt most free
I drew a picture and nowhere God they knew me
So before the wretched men resume
Before their dreaded son appears
My driver's waiting
So let's make one thing crystal clear
You see a fraudulent form
I see a shirt design
I'm no savior of yours and you're no friend of mine
You're no friend of mine
You're no friend of mine
I'm no savior of yours, you're no friend of mine
You see a fraudulent form
I see a shirt design
I'm no savior of yours, you're no friend of mine
I see myself in the reflection of people's eyes
Realizing what they see may not be even close to the image I see in myself
And I think I might actually be more afraid
I feel like they know the story
I saw a bear floating in the river and thought it was a fur coat
Twelve years ago, I stood on the shore
Jumped in and grabbed the coat
And the river is rushing toward a waterfall
And my friend stood at the shore and shouted to let go of the coat
And swim back to land
I let go of the coat but the coat won't let go of me
In any case please let me know if there's more I can give you
If nothing comes of it, then just know we are grateful

 

Weird how much is different in the version of the lyrics mewithoutYou tweeted out.

 

I'm really loving this, I'm a total sucker for 80's music in general and this is scratching the right spots.

 

I actually re-listened to Brand New Eyes and Paramore yesterday in preparation for today's release. I never loved BNE to begin with, but I don't think it holds up well and I would actually argue that After Laughter varies way more in style and mood than BNE does. That said, I'm not really into 80's music and I have never cared much for the 80's revival we've been seeing so prominently in recent years. Only rarely do I enjoy music that has a heavy 80's influence (such as the most recent 1975 and Mew albums), but After Laughter might be an example of an album that goes too far for my personal sensibilities. I might be stuck at the same place that I've been at for 4 years: being a bigger fan of Paramore the album than of Paramore the band.

 

No friend definitely inspired me to listen to pale horses today

 

"No Friend" is awesome, because it's pretty much just a mewithoutYou song. Aaron is just doing his usual thing, with Paramore as his backing band.

Kind of weird to hear on a Paramore album. I knew he wrote that song, but I figured his vocals would be more of a guest feature - not the whole damn thing, haha.

 

Yeah, there's definitely no perfect artist. My trajectory with Paramore has almost been the opposite of most people. I've been a fan since All We Know is Falling first came out. They lost me with Riot and I was unimpressed with Brand New Eyes. Then I was totally won over by s/t, which remains one of my favorite albums of this decade. The s/t is the album that does not have anything missing for me -- and I'll mention that the debut still has a soft spot in my heart.

 

I dig it, but I'm biased since I'm a huge mewithoutYou fan. :)

It IS surprising to hear on this album, but hopefully it will inspire some people to check out their discography.

 

If you turn on the equalizer in iTunes and set it to the "Vocal Booster" option, you can hear Aaron pretty well.

 

#commitment

 

maybe I'll listen to mewithoutYou finally, but probably not.

 

#mistake

 

Yeah, what I'm curious about is what Hayley added to the writing of the song. She has writing credits on the track, but nothing is audibly her: just a lot of Aaron, Taylor, and Zac. She's credited in the CD booklet as sharing some of the keyboard and percussion duties, so she's probably on the track -- I just don't remember hearing keys there. Eh. Doesn't matter too much.

 

may just be layering stuff. I think I can hear some buried synths

 

My only issue with "No Friend" is where it's at in the tracklisting. It feels more like a mid-album interlude than a penultimate track.

 

... aren't a lot of those her lyrics being repurposed/interpreted?

 

I don't like spoken word singing okay.

 

no friend is a big fuck you to everyone who was like "wow this band went tooooo poppy for me" while band just sticks in their most experimental song yet

mewithoutyou isn't for everyone

 

mewithoutYou is for everyone.

But not everyone is for mewithoutYou.

 

I'm finding that after however many listens I've had with this, I enjoy it most with headphones. There are just so many subtleties to pick up and layers to peel back with every listen. Really cool production/panning stuff going on too other than it obviously just sounding generally fantastic

 

Brick by boring brick (first line)

 

MEWITHOUTyOU