All the Music: Time for...PARAMORE

Have your ever heard this name?, if not, I'm sure that at least, you have heard one of Paramore's songs.
Maybe it was one of those songs that no matter where or when you listen to it for the first time, later its impossible for you to forget it and get it out of your head, and you don't even know who the singer was!

Paramore's songs perfectly fit in this description... don't you think so?

Now that I have raised the interest and curiosity of those of you that still don't know this magic group...
What is Paramore?, How can we describe it?.

Paramore can be considered an alternative American rock band, integrated by Hayley Williams (voice), Zac Farro (battery), Josh Farro (guitar) and Taylor York (guitar). It was formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004, so as we can see this pretty modern band has got to the top in only six years... How can be possible? I'm sure you will understand it in a second, just by listening one of their fantastic songs:
-Ignorance
-Misery Business
-Crush Crush Crush

The fact that the band was also nominated to the prizes Grammy, is something that don't surprise us at all.

As a resume of their work, we can mention that in 2005 they edited his first album "All We Know Is Falling". As I have readed, "Instead of giving the debut album a major radio promotional push, Steve Robertson, (Paramore's A&R at Atlantic Records) believed the band should start slowly build through word of mouth. In his words, Robertson -wanted kids to discover the band without it being shoved down their throats-." Personally I think this is a very interesting point of view, and that Steve made the right decision. Nowadays is very common to promote new bands in such a way that almost force teenagers to became fans. Sometimes it seems like they don't have the opportunity to chose which group they want to follow and listen to, because the advartising and the promotion of a certain band becomes so strong that it not only make some lazy teenagers forgot about other interesting groups, but also appears to hypnotize them with all those announces on radio and television, pictures on the newspapers etc. I perfectly understand Steve Robertson, who just wanted the audience to admire Paramore because of how it sounds on stage, because of their lyrics meaning, and all those specific and original things of the real group. He doesn't wanted this band to succeed just because of a major radio promotional push, or a good and powerful advertising campaign giving an adorned and manipulated image of the band in order to make it more attractive. Of course, Steves Robertson's way of promoting the band was risked, but in my opinion the risk was worth it.

In 2007 they throw a second disc "Riot!" witch was rewarded with the Platinum disc in The United States and in the United Kingdom, and with the Gold in Ireland and also in New Zealand.
As a curiosity we can mention that the cover of the album has been compared with the one of the album "Rock Steady" of the ska punk band Not Doubt.

There were a lot of different opinions about this new album. Some of them were really good, such as the positive critics of Jason Lyman Grover of AllMusic. However, for others this album wasn't that well received. For example, is the case of Gareth Dobson de Drowned in Sound, who just give four stars of ten to the album, almost saying that it was unbearable.

His third and last work, "Brand New Eyes" appeared on September 29, 2009 making debut in the number 2 of the Billboard 200 selling 175,000 copies during his first week.

I have always wonder the reason why they decided to call their last album "Brand New Eyes". Now I know the real reason. It is not something new to hear about internal problems in bands. In fact, I could say it is something quite normal. Hence, I was not impressed when I found out that after their success with "Riot!" the members of Paramore had some problems, and experimented a pretty difficult phase. After all, the members of the band have confessed that during this proccess they learned a lot, and all those fights and different points of view helped each of them to remember that the main reason why they were still together in a stage was to play music, which was a dream came true for all of them.

Finally they resolved their problems and they finished this album. Those fights happened to be a very useful tool to Hayley, who was inspired by them when writting the lirycs of "Brand new eyes". As we can see, this title have a clear meaning: It represent a new perspective and a different and better way of facing life among the members in the band.