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Popdose: CD Review: Paramore, “brand new eyes”

  • J · 2 months ago
    We downloaded this album from Amazon today for the hefty price of $3.99. That's almost enough for two bottles of Two Buck Chuck. ;) Our daughter is a HUGE Paramore fan, and I must admit, I kinda like it, too. Though I don't let her catch me listening to it. That freaks her out. She's 13, what do you expect?
  • jefito · 2 months ago
    Let me know when you get tired of it. I'll buy you a Paramore t-shirt and kill her fanhood instantly.
  • bkharmony · 2 months ago
    You've gone soft, old man. This is throwaway dreck. Just say it.

    Also, why you gotta dis' tha Shooz?
  • jefito · 2 months ago
    The sound is dreck for sure, but I think there's more to the songs than I wanted to admit going in. Also, Nu Shooz sucked.
  • bkharmony · 2 months ago
    I suppose you hated Information Society, too.

    Didn't you once pen an impassioned defense of David & David?
  • jefito · 2 months ago
    David & David hardly need me to defend them. You've wandered off the reservation, Billy...please come home.
  • bkharmony · 2 months ago
    Me walk with buffalo many moons.
  • Ted · 2 months ago
    It's not dreck. The band has the chops (just listen to their live CD), but like Jeff said, their music is buried under too much gloss -- and sometimes too many sound-alike songs.
  • steevelknievel · 2 months ago
    their songs are co-written w long time biz pros and then I even doubt that the band had anything to do w anything but the lyrics. funny that you wrote about selena gomez today, it's really the same thing w a package designed for the kids who hate ms gomez and love lowercase writing as art.
  • Vee · 2 months ago
    brand new eyes (I could have cared less if it was capitalized or not. I'm fifteen and the only thing about punctuation, grammar, ect. is Panic! at the Disco. Ha, I was not expecting the exclamation point to be there). Well, the album isn't that bad, Ignorance sound a lot like their previous songs, the other songs are a bit different, not a lot of the songs stand out to me that much like the ones on All We Know is Falling. Brand New Eyes just seems really, "Oh my gosh, we broke up, I miss you, I hate you, love me." I love Paramore to death but . . . . I don't everytime I listen I think to much of Twilight. I hate Twilight. Enough said. They put on a good show live so I can't hate on them. The music is relate-able for must of my fellow heart-broken teens.
  • Vee · 2 months ago
    So many mistake in my comment, ha. I meant to say I love Paramore but everytime I listen to Brand New Eyes, it just reminds me to much of Twilight. I didn't bother to listen to Decode either. The acoustic songs are good. I like hearing Hayley's voice without to many guitars.
  • tillmanbig11 · 2 months ago
    Yea, but the old stuff is always the best! i hate when bands go commercial and stray from their true, original sound! For example, Evanessence, when land based in Arkansas, their stuff was amazing, then their albums started to go down hill when they started getting bigger, because they lost their image, and conformed to modern media! It also happened with bands like Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At the Disco. It's always the pre-fame that sounds the best! So for them to stick to their true sound is Great! That's what i love to hear! Not some media-produced b.s.
  • georgealot · 2 months ago
    this old fag just hates paramore , it doesnt even seem as he listens to real music , probably a abba fan , sounds like one.