Paramore return with an album inflected with their signature emo and powerhouse vocals 🟡Review: This Is Why
After two decades at the coal front of emo-rock, Paramore have seen it all. Forming as teenagers, the band has imploded multiple times. Lineup changes have been so frequent that this album is the first to feature the same core group as its predecessor. This nebulous, ever-changing group has weathered everything from the turbulence of adolescence to the life-shattering pain of divorce.
There were question marks about whether Paramore would actually return after their 2017 record. Frontwoman Hayley Williams and bandmates Zac Farro and Taylor York took time out to exist as humans who weren’t collectively known as Paramore, to see what life was like without the constant hum of the band in the background.
Before Covid-19 was even a blip on a radar, all three band members were throwing themselves into community activism in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter. You can hear this murmur of discontent and frustration in “The News” and “Running Out of Time”, both of which lament, in different ways, how little a single person can do to shift the status quo while trying to pay rent, be a good neighbour, keep the family fed, keep the wolf from the door.
The paradox of social media is also high on Paramore’s agenda. On the angular title track, they throw their hands up at the fact that it is impossible to win an argument when either side is laying traps for anyone to fall into, when changing your mind is disallowed, when merely existing online can result in death threats and worse. “If you have an opinion, maybe you should shove it,” Williams suggests, purring through the words.
Williams, on fine form both vocally and lyrically, is unhinged and brassy on “C’est Comme Ca”, eye-rolling and scathing on “Big Man Little Dignity” , a sugar-and-spice song about a “smooth operator in a s***-stained suit”. Clearly a lot of therapy has been had, the language of the analyst’s couch creeping gently into the Paramore lexicon.
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