Last Saturday night, I was moments away from calling a Lyft to take myself to the Chase Center after one of the most exhausting Saturdays I’ve had in years. Literally right before I was going to “Select Lyft” button, I got a text from a friends letting me know that the show had been postponed. Someone appears to have gotten sick in the touring party. OH NO! The worst part about it was that I was kind of relieved… I ended up introducing my four year old to Oliver & Company instead that night, and it was an excellent decision. The SF Show was moved to August 7th, as well as Seattle moving to the 9th, Portland to the 10th, and the 2023 tour is now closing up in Seattle on the 13th. This is sad news for most people, but excellent news for folks that were sold out of these shows, as the postponed shows are allowing for refunds for a week. You can snag those tickets as they become available here!
In the meantime, here are my six favorite tracks from Paramore’s catalog.
First, a track that’s not getting ANY play this tour, and I’m certainly crushcrushcrushed about it.
Decode was the band’s first foray outside of the Warped Tour / Emo / Pop-Punk world. A big ballad, cloaked in dark atmospherics, sounding more like Jim Steinmand wrote a song for Evanescence than anything to come before (or since) from this band.
Ain’t It Fun has been described by a fellow Spinning Platters contributor as “the perfect pop song.” The perfectly paced hook. The singalong refrain. The overall “I swear I’ve known this song my whole life” energy. It really is sonic perfection.
Still Into You is weird to listen to, knowing that the guy it’s written about became kind of a jerk. But it’s such a beautiful love song that I’m able to let that go.
Was The Only Exception specifically made for the first dance at an emo couple’s wedding? Maybe? But if everyone could write the perfect wedding song, then everyone would.
After months of the “emo-revival” being chatted about, I was worried that their comeback single, This Is How, was going to be cookie-cutter Warped nostalgia. Instead, Paramore had something real to say about the last three years of darkness and paranoia. The last comeback record to feel this relevant may have been Sleater-Kinney’s “Bury Your Friends” 7” which was the Easter egg in their box set that let us know they were back.
