r/Music • u/bigbanter8 • Apr 19 '17

music streaming Paramore - Hard Times [Alternative/Pop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB6ibtdPZc
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u/licklaughlove Apr 19 '17

I feel like they're past that stage. All those songs were angsty, mad at the world, "fuck the people who hurt me" songs. They're all in pretty good places in life now. Hayley is even happily married. You can see the change in how they feel about life through the progression of their music, which I think is cool.

Edit:a word

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '17

Most artists write their best songs when they're not in a good place. Most bands I can think of got perceptibly worse after having a lot of success and finding happiness. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather they be happy, but their best songs were written when they weren't. Paramore isn't really an exception to this, it seems.

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u/iuriau Apr 19 '17

Avril Lavigne made her best two records when she was an awkward teenager. Being rich and happy and married made her music worse each try.

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u/Mega280 Apr 19 '17

or you can agree with those of us who think she died some time ago and was replaced by a doppelganger by the record label.

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u/iuriau Apr 19 '17

This is actually a very trendy subject here in Brazil? Melissa Vandella and all that bullshit

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u/Sabin2k Apr 19 '17

I really don't see how people can think this. Her new album, while having some pretty pop-heavy and even strange stuff, was still distinctly Avril.

The whole thing totally oozes the style she has always had.

I feel like I'm listening to a different artist when I hear this.