Paramore - After Laughter (May 12th, 2017) Album • Page 11

I don't think the Panic change was really that drastic at all

 

Panic also do it very well, in my opinion. It suits Brendon's voice and his levels of showmanship and song writing are fantastic.

 

When they first came out, his voice was almost too good for the genre they played. Have you seen his cover of Bohemian Rhapsody? Holy hell.

 

It's cause he swore to shake it up if you swore to listen.

 

I've heard him perform it live. That man has pipes. I totally agree that his voice is too good for pop-punk or whatever the hell Panic! originally were.

 

But goddamn was their debut album some good shit, it still is.

 

I would prefer a band to go pop rather than simply phoning it in. I want bands to feel inspired to push their sound and if pop does so be it, whatever is the best direction for that particular band that's what I want to hear.. for paramore this feels really natural and seems to work

 

All of those bands have been incorporating pop into their sounds since day one.

 

Panic has changed a lot between each album, can't really call that a drastic shift because none of their albums sound that similar anyway

 

Also, I think this argument takes a very shortsighted view of what pop is. Fall Out Boy, Panic, and Paramore have always been really poppy bands. Just because they used to be more guitar driven doesn't mean they weren't at their core playing pop music.

 

It's so tiring to have the same conversation about how pop isn't a bad thing.

 

And I mean, this is the band that wrote Misery Business, The Only Exception, Still Into You, Ain't It Fun... some of the most successful pop songs of recent years.

 

guitar music has less range than non guitar music, makes sense that bands move out of it often

 

I just think people are too defensive of bands from this scene. I get why, but you can't be angry at a band for doing what they want. You don't have to like it of course, and maybe you just dislike poppier music, but I feel people get possessive over bands.

 

What's weird is that I love bands like Innerpartysystem and She Wants Revenge. Both are primarily electronic rather than guitar, and that's all fine. I don't know what my problem is to be honest.

I don't mind the electronic sound, but maybe it's due to scene bands converting into something "radio friendly," which is still weird on my part. Who knows.

 

Because pop music is fun as fuck.

 

And I think there are definitely valid criticisms of all three bands, I mean I don't like this new Paramore song, but it doesn't have much to do with them getting poppier. I think the new song lacks personality but I can totally imagine that they might write a straight up pop song that I'm super into. Ascribing a step down in quality to a shift in songwriting is reductive.

 

I think the most interesting thing to note is that people are more prone to enjoy pop as they get older because they realize it doesn't matter what people think of your music listening habits

good music is good music no matter the genre

 

this is no more radio friendly than their earlier stuff
in fact this song is probably even weirder than all their other radio hits

 

Funny because as I've gotten older, I can't stand the stuff on the radio, and I find myself going back 10 years and listening to things in that era.

 

"radio friendly" doesn't have to mean anything negative though, does it?

 

music on the radio doesn't equal pop music
i listen to more pop music than i used to but the stuff on the radio sucks

 

No, it's not negative, but I think it all comes back to "man, I used to listen to these guys when no one really heard of them."

 

Do you mean that you feel like they used to write songs that became radio hits and now they write songs to be radio hits? That's the vibe I'm getting. I can kind of understand that, I get caught in that line of thinking sometimes even though I don't think it's accurate.

 

For most bands, they start out writing what they love to play, after a while, they write what people love to hear.