Singer Hayley Williams has a really lovely voice. Although I do like that the song ends with another jagged guitar chord. The drums (Zac Farro’s drum machine) have an Afro-pop texture and Joseph Howard’s bass plays a few sliding moments that seem very dancey. There’s slices of jagged guitar, but the chorus is pure pop. It makes me smile that Logan MacKenzie’s keyboard is about six inches long. The first song “Hard Times” opens with a keyboard line that sounds vaguely like steel drums. It’s a record, more than a decade into the band’s career, that not only exposes the sparkling pop that’s always lit Paramore’s songs, but also deals with the ache of growing up and growing apart. And maybe they were.īut this six-piece incarnation of the band is not pop punk at all.Ĭaptures the moment between rapture and its comedown, the glitter wiped away, left with skin rubbed raw. I had always thought that Paramore was someone else (although I don’t know who). SOUNDTRACK: PARAMORE-Tiny Desk Concert #656 (October 2, 2017).
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