Monster

Paramore have officially released their first new single after the "incident". So, their first song just being a trio. It came out a few hours ago and I only got the chance to listen to it now, due to the fact I was sleeping haha. I gotta say, I was a bit surprised with myself. Usually when Paramore release a new song, I go absolutely crazy. I would have actually stayed up till 2.00am to listen to the premiere of it, I would have gone all fangirly, talked to all my paramore friends online about the song, and got super duper excited. But this time around I was just neutral. And while listening to the whole song for the first time, I was just pokerfaced. And when the song ended I was like "hmm". I don't know, it was just really unexpected of me and strange haha. I guess the good thing is I was able to look at the song for what is actually was without instantly loving the song because it was a "Paramore song".

But I wanted to write down my initial thoughts of the song while it's still very new to me and before it gets overplayed. Firstly, I guess the thing that stood out the most to me was the guitars. Particularly at the beginning, and the guitar solo. I really liked the guitar solo. Taylor did such a good job, he tracked both lead and rhythm guitar AND drums. He had to fill in the gap Josh and Zac left behind all on his own and I am not being bias at all in saying this (because he is my boyfriend and all), but he really, really did a good job. He had a lot of pressure on him, and huge shoes to fill, and I am just so proud of him it hurts haha. Kudos to him.

Secondly, the lyrics. They are so dark and you can just tell what they are about. Hayley must have been very angry when she wrote them. But to me that makes the song more appealing because I feel like I, being a fan, was apart of the whole fiasco that unraveled and I got to go through the same notions that Hayley did when they left the band. Of course I did not feel the same thing on the same level, but I did feel the betrayal and the hurt too, and all that is clearly expressed in the song. So I suppose that forms an instant connection. Oh oh! Want to know something funny? There is this lyric in the chorus that goes "well now that you've gone, the world is ours". And one hour after the song was released, Josh tweets this: "Matthew 16:26 "for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?". LOL. I have noticed that every time Paramore announce a certain thing or release something, he ALWAYS tweets a Bible quote that combats it. I think someone is still butthurt hehe. He's probably just using it as a means to get to Hayley, as they don't talk to each other anymore. Sad sad.

I've only listened to the song 3 times, and I have to admit, it was only on the third listen that I actually started to like it. It sounds very different from past Paramore, and of course that was to be expected given the primary songwriter left the band. Though it's different, it's still good. But it's only good because I like that kind of music, if I wasn't into the more indie hard rock kind of thing, I probably wouldn't like the song, because it certainly doesn't sound like Paramore. My ears will take some time to get used to this new Paramore sound, but for now I am liking what I am hearing. Not loving, but liking. But hey, it's their first single and this is just one aspect to what they are creating, I have to wait till another album comes out before I go all music snob.

Alright I think that's everything I wanted to write down. Oh no, wait I wanted to share this lyric I really like:
"i let my heart go,
it's somewhere down at the bottom.
but I'll get a new one".
I don't know why, but I just like those lines. Also, I might as well share the actual song :P

Tell me what you think of it!