Paramore - After Laughter (May 12th, 2017) Album • Page 84

I signed up for the presale, I'll be home on Wednesday morning, and I have money in my bank account. Lets go.

 

the ringer is fucking stupid

 

Is there any first week sales projections yet?

 

Hits Daily Double doesn't seem to have projections on Paramore but they have Harry Styles (250-275K) and Zac Brown Band (170-185K) as the projected top two.

 

Fuck me the NY date is the day before Comic Con starts


Also wish I had been able to do pre-sale registration earlier, just saw it a bit ok.

 

Reported

 

i'm a lil biased tbh lol i used to be super bothered by her and wavves vibe back in 2010 and never gave a legit shot after that lol

 

Agreed, and in many other areas. Always makes me think of/want to send the offender this:

 

Haven't you heard? Use a synthesizer=automatically trying to revive the 80s.

 

@Craig Ismaili

 

Well, you do have a point. But they did go full on with it this album, and the music videos are extremely retro. Quite a bit of the guitar tones and upbeat sound/melodies are similar and reminiscent of some great acts from that time.

Not a knock on the album at all though, it's still very much Paramore and him love it.

I am him.

 

1-900 T-Shirt (Limited Edition)

This band is costing me a small fortune lately.

 

$35 for THAT?! A white shirt with 2 tiny pictures on it??!

 

They could put "limited edition" on a piece of toast and I would buy it.

 

Perhaps. In general I find the 80s revival comments a little weird, thus my comment. Glad you're digging the record regardless.

 

I'm not sure where the review is. I'll look into it

 

i wish they still sold the shirt i used to have back in the day. it was green and had a yellow tree on the side at the bottom. it was a cool design, but i can't even find a picture of it anywhere... boo.

 

Yeah I don't really like Best Coast at all. Waaaay too repetitive and lyrically weak, same goes for Wavves

 

I like Best Coast, Wavves frontman is kind of insufferable and really turned me off from the band

 

Review loses all credibility when it says "Williams, a 5-foot-nothing firebrand with an exuberant mean streak". Nah.

And good god you'd swear the Chainsmokers literally invented the synth, the way everything gets compared to them these days.

 

I read reviews like this and wonder how these people got into positions to write about music.. seriously, that type of writing isn't what its about.. maybe I'm overreacting but that review rubbed me the wrong way

 

like rhythmically and instrumentally the album is so much more than that.. and says so much more than that. idk Im definitely biased and that is why I'm not writing reviews but this just seems so off..also saying that there are using mostly drum machines.. that just isn't true right?

 

The ringer is literally the worst website for music takes holy crap

 

Nope not overreacting. It focused almost entirely on the tabloid aspect of the band's career and reiterated every claim that's been thrown at Hayley over the last 10 years, presenting it as fact instead of as complicated issues with more than one aspects at play. It's exactly the type of thing that has plagued the band for years, and which, I assume, contributed to a lot of the exhaustion, hurt, and anxiety Hayley is now experiencing and were a lyrical theme on the album. It also carries not so subtle tones of sexism (Hayley the bitch because she's a powerful frontwoman who often outshines the band around her, despite her best efforts not to).

 

What's this all about? I haven't noticed any efforts on her part NOT to be the centrepiece of the band, but why should she? It's her insane vocals that the band has always been built around - what about that makes her a bitch?

Also I haven't listened yet, but am I right in saying this album should be a knockout? I'm ready for it