"There’re two things you’ll charge to get through tonight — besides your tears," Hayley Williams told the sold-out admirers at the Fillmore Miami Beach. "Your dancing shoes. You got two of them?”
The crowd, blank the alloy of Art Basel assemblage outside, dances in confirmation.
"All right, good. We’re Paramore. Let’s dance."
If you were were 13 to 16 years old in 2007, there's a chance Paramore was again the best important bandage in the apple to you. Maybe you apprehend accessories on WikiHow such as "How to Be a Scene Kid" and scribbled on your Chucks with a Sharpie. Maybe you alike took a assertive photo of Williams to the Regis salon at Dadeland Mall and told the stylist, "I appetite this haircut," and regretted it for years.
If you did all of this, seeing Paramore animate at the Fillmore ten years afterwards in 2017 was a shock. Williams looks actual different. Her blatant eye makeup, platinum hair, and hot-pink blazer were arresting from the aback of the room. The bandage jumped appropriate into "Hard Times," the '80s-funk-infused hit from its best contempo album, this year's Afterwards Laughter, a abounding brand abandonment against the pop ancillary of pop-punk hinted at on a 2013 self-titled album.
It's the aftermost appearance of the band's Tour Two, and it's been a connected time coming; the appearance had to be adjourned because of Hurricane Irma. "It took a actual connected time," Williams grinned. "But we adored the best for last."
The set account was a seamless alloy of hits from the band's 12-year oeuvre. The 2013 radio hit "Still Into You" didn't await on apery of old hits to be a addictive pop song of substance, but it prioritized Hayley's aerial vocalization, which fabricated "That's What You Get" a blithely self-defeating pop-punk affliction song. Afterwards all this time, you're still into them.
Did anyone, alike Paramore, anticipate they'd still be affairs out above venues 12 years afterwards absolution All We Apperceive Is Falling? What makes Paramore altered from added Vans Warped Tour veterans such as All Time Low and Panic! at the Disco is affecting valence and Williams' pin-sharp delivery of it through her lyrics and voice. When the blow of the bandmates abolished during an acoustic achievement of "26," a song the 28-year-old Williams has alleged a letter to herself ten years earlier, she drew in the blow of the crowd. "I don’t what any of you ability be activity through... but if wherever you’re activity home from actuality makes you feel beneath alive, actualize something, at the end of the day, aloof accomplish something,” she said. "This is article that we made.”
"26" is a musically affected and complete about-face of that memory. "Hold assimilate achievement if you've got it," she sang. "Don't let it go for nobody/They say that absent is free/But I wouldn't affliction what it amount me."
Fans who stick with a bandage connected abundant will animate to see kids bisected their age alter them with their wonder, tears, and awe-inspiring dance. They will acquaint themselves in ripped shirts and angular jeans from the abutting bench to acquaint you Hayley sometimes invites admirers onstage.
"Here we are at the appendage end of 2017," Williams said from the date afterwards a real-happy achievement of "Fake Happy." Afore Afterwards Laughter was appear afterward a four-year anthology gap, Williams was honest about her anxieties about the bandage actuality over. "Looks like we survived it," she laughed.
"[Ten years ago,] in 2007, we put out Riot!, and we were all — best of you too — high-school students," she continued, a reminder that the oft-ridiculed pop-punk songs of our adolescence were fabricated for and by the adolescent and the accessible — awkward music for awkward growth.
"A lot of us accept gotten the adventitious to abound up together. Thank you for giving us the chance," she said with the artlessness of an elementary academy acquaintance collapsed out of touch.
"If you wouldn’t apperception adopting your abstract glass, I’m gonna acknowledgment to the colors orange and chicken and red," she smiled, arena the role of a silver-haired millennial sage. "We’re gonna acknowledgment to black-and-white scribbles everywhere... and acknowledgment to misery.”
This is abundant to apperceive alike afore the song begins that "Misery Business" will feel aloof as boastful as it did at 13, Chucks and all.
Set list:- "Hard Times"- "Ignorance"- "Still Into You"- "Daydreaming"- "Forgiveness"- "Brick by Boring Brick"- "Playing God"- "That's What You Get"- "I Caught Myself"- "Hate to See Your Heart Break"- "26"- "Told You So"- "Everywhere" (Fleetwood Mac cover)- "Fake Happy"- "Misery Business"- "Ain't It Fun"
Encore:- "Caught in the Middle"- "Scooby's in the Back" (HalfNoise cover)- "Rose-Colored Boy"
