Paramore

The next single from Paramore's Brand New Eyes album is The Only Exception. It's the third single from the album, and I feel I should forewarn you that I haven't been as taken with Brand New Eyes as I was with Riot! - I think I'm still so engrossed with that album that truthfully, I'm not ready for this new material yet.

Anyway The Only Exception is a ballad (gasp!), quite a break from the sublime rockers that the band have released to date. Of course, there's plenty of romantic material to be had on the album tracks...

This one is a song of hope - at the beginning, Hayley's sworn off love and doesn't believe it exists. Damn those parental breakups! But the frequent refrain is to the lover in the video that he's the exception to that rule. The lyrics are admirable, optimistic and adorable.

The video features Hayley walking through various scenes in her life, including a clever speed-dating scene where she 'dates' each member of Paramore individually and rejects them all! And, according to Neon Limelight, the letters on the bed Hayley lies on are all "real love letters from Paramore fans". That's got to be a massive ego boost, seeing your letter in a Paramore video.

Rock band Paramore have released details of their upcoming North American tour, which will start off in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The tour will support Hayley Williams & Co's latest album 'Brand New Eyes' and will kick off this April.

Paramore April dates:

Knoxville, TN Knoxville Civic Coliseum (April 26)
Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena (28)
Atlantic City, NJ Trump Taj Mahal – Mark G Etess Arena (30)

May Dates:

East Rutherford, NJ The Bamboozle New Jersey - Meadowlands Sports Complex (May 1)
Columbus, OH The LC Amphitheatre (3)
Grand Rapids, MI DeltaPlex (4)
Rockford, IL Rockford Metro Centre (6)
Moline, IL i Wireless Center (7)
Council Bluffs, IA WestFair Amphitheatre (8)
Salt Lake City, UT E Center (10)
Seattle, WA WaMu Theater (12)
Bakersfield, CA Rabobank Arena (15)
Las Vegas, NV The Joint (16)

Four words. Amazing song. Amazing video.
P.S. How hot does Hayley look with the blonde hair?

Paramore have put up their new album Brand New Eyes on MySpace and paramore.net for their fans to listen to! You can find it here;

www.myspace.com/paramore

www.paramore.net

I've been a Paramore fan since hearing "Emergency" on a Warped Tour compilation, and if you've listened to their first album "All We Know Is Falling", and their more well known second album "Riot!" you'll definetely see a big departure from what we've come to expect from this group.

Many people expected their new material to follow in the footsteps of Decode, the song that was recorded for the soundtrack of Twilight, but after a first listen, I would say that isn't the case at all. Brand New Eyes is the most diverse album the group have come out with so far, mixing big arena songs alongside acoustic tracks they normally save for live Radio appearances. By their own admission, the album mostly tells the story of the issues the band faced when they took a month off and cancelled a number of European dates back in 2008.

SONG: Ignorance

ARTIST: Paramore

ALBUM: Brand New Eyes

RELEASE DATE: 11 September 2009 (IRL), 14 September 2009 (UK)

GENRE: Punk pop, power pop, emo, alternative rock

SONG REVIEW:

Woah! It's been a long time since I've written for this blog. I don't know whether I've had some form of writer's block or I've just became lazy but I've suddenly had the inspiration to start writing again! In fact, I want to review a song by a band I have a lot of respect for. This band is called Paramore.