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- Summary: The first full-length release since 2017's After Laughter for pop-punk trio Paramore was produced by Carlos de la Garza.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 20 out of 20
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Mixed: 0 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Feb 9, 2023‘This Is Why’ is a blistering melding pot of artistry.
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Feb 9, 2023It is an overall cohesive and grand statement of an album which opens with familiar sounds, and explores jutting, pointed off-shoots, before crescendoing with “Thick Skull”’s cataclysmic pop, all the while holding a relative level of self-involvement and privilege.
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Feb 10, 2023Something about the songwriting on ‘This Is Why’ are undeniably the most something, Williams both elegant and sandpaper-coarse, depending on what is called for.
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Feb 9, 2023Paramore have successfully remoulded the cornerstones of their music not only for the new times we find ourselves in, but also for a personal evolution, and maturity evident across This Is Why. [Mar 2023, p.76]
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Feb 10, 2023This Is Why is Paramore’s excellent foray into post-punk, riddled with a new set of anxieties — from witnessing global events to dealing with entering your thirties.
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Feb 9, 2023Truly emphasising how far they’ve come since emo’s heyday, these songs have as much (or more) in common with alt.pop icons like HAIM, Alanis Morissette or Fiona Apple as even they do with even Paramore’s poppiest ‘rock’ contemporaries like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco.
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Feb 10, 2023While the jagged edges of “This Is Why” establish a jittery energy to match Williams’ punctuated belting on the chorus, songs like “C’est Comme Ça” draw too closely from their inspirations. ... Once they shake off their millennial discontents, Paramore find their groove in the record’s second half.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 106 out of 113
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Mixed: 4 out of 113
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Negative: 3 out of 113
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Feb 10, 2023Masterpiece! Period! Big Man, little dignity song of the Year! Paramore is still a band.
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Feb 10, 2023Their best work to date. Been a fan since 2007 and they just keep getting better and better.
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Feb 10, 2023As always and comigo back to their roots on rock and wow what an album!!! I really think it smells like a Grammy indication.
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Feb 10, 2023Rock royalty returns. Bawling my eyes out over how good this new Paramore is. instant classic. sound, lyrics, relatability… 10/10.
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Feb 12, 2023Me encanta este álbum siento que es lo que representa hoy en día la música para ellos y sus sentimientos.
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Aug 18, 2023Their best album. Reflective of an entire generations experience growing into our 30s. Excellent songwriting and musicianship.
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Mar 3, 2023They ate this. Absolutely their best album, incredibly cohesive and engaging.
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