Catie Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 new spin mag article. saw it posted on pfc so i figured u guys want to see/read it too idk which issue so dont ask me lmao Phonies, Go HomePint Size Tennessee titan makes a convincing case for sincerity By Mikael Wood Hayley Williams didn't spend her adolescence stalking the halls of a New England prep school. And her chrstian faith probably precludes her from using the word goddamn like an idefinite article. But the flame-haired Paramore frontwoman is, without question, rock's Holden Caulfield:There's no limit to Williams' discust with phoniness in all its forms. After building a devoted fan base through tours with the B-list emo likes of Bayside and Cute is What We Aim For, her young suburband Nashville quintet busted out in a major way with 2007's Riot!, a powerful little smart bomb of righteious-babe rhetoric that earned Paramore a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist alongside Taylor Swift and Amy Winehouse. In "Misery Business," the album's crossover hit, Williams described a routine instance of alpha-chick warfare with the laser-guided insight of tattooed Tine Fey. Her reward? Platinum sales and a worldwide army of Manic Panic'd lookalikes. The singer hunts slightly bigger game on Paramore's follow-up, Brand New Eyes, which at a moment of wet-and-wild Warped Tour cynicism (see Cobra Starsgip and 30H!3), offers a principled reminder of a more earnest, honest age. In "Turn It Off," Williams protests that "it's getting harder to believe in anything" and rails against "shortcuts and false solutions," while opener "Careful" urges fellow inhabitants of the Disinformation Age to "open up your eyes like I opened mine." In "Playing God," she takes aim at bully-pulpit blowhards ("Next time you point a finger, I'll point you to the mirror," she sneers). And "Brick by Boring Brick," the album's philosophical centerpiece, lays out the singer's worldview with the same degree of clarity she employed in Riot!'s "For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic":"If it's not real, you can't hold it in your hands/You can't feel it with your heart/And I won't believe it." Sound like a drag? It's not: A zealous onstage headbanger, Williams howls like she's spend her 20 years on Earth internalizing old Judas Priest records. And if Brand New Eyes' killer power-ballad closer, "All I Wanted," brings to mind the title of Kelly Clarkson's latest album, well, Williams might be the only vocalist in rock capable of surving that comparison. Her fresh-faced bandmates don't leave her hanging, either, attacking their spring-loaded pop punk with unbridled enthusiasm of DIY diehards. Paramore recorded Eyes in Los Angeles with big-rock guru Rob Cavallo (who first worked with the band on their Twilight soundtrack hit "Decode"), but unlike breakthroughs by emo predecessors My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, the album doesn't reveal a huge leap in studio ambition. "Playing God" has some zippy new-wave harmonies, and "The Only Exception" is a surprisingly soulful acoustic number a la Parachutes-era Coldplay. Instead, the upgrade is one of focus and intensity. Last year, rumors swirled about the possible breakup of the group, and two tracks here-"Looking Up" and "Where the Lines Overlap"-play like responses to the hubbub. "God knows the world doesn't need another band/But what a waste it would have been," Willaims wails in the former, before adding, "I can't believe we almost hung it up." In the latter, over a typically speedy robo-garage groove, she admits, "No one is as lucky as us." Given Paramore's purity of purpose, though, luck isn't really part of the equation" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornforthis___x Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 awesome! thanks for posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indabisofmisery Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 sweeeeeet article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riot!Girlx Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Awesome article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenbeauty Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 http://digital.spin.com/spin/200909/?u1=texterity the actual artical is on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenbeauty Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 and there is also an interview with hayley in the october 09 issue. i don't own a scanner and i can't find it anywhere online but if someone else does, please upload it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisisdeborah Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Thanks for posting. I love the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyTarget Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 That's pretty awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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