Friday, July 23, 2010
Moving Pictures Is This Paramore?
Posted by Adam Gold on Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Before you proceed to read this post, click to play the video above, then close your eyes. Now, tell me what band you just heard. Done? OK, is it one whose name rhymes with Paramour?
As much as I hate to just straight-up post a commercial like this and give free advertising to the most annoying ad campaign since Budweiser’s Whassup? I just can’t resist. Somebody please tell me, is this Paramore? I mean, I know the video title says it’s some band called Evolove (evo-LOL), but I can’t find a single cosmetic or musical characteristic to convince me this isn’t Paramore. Pixie-esque singer with a Hot Topic dye job? Check. Faceless dudes with emo-swoops as black as Stalin’s soul? Check. A guitar launched in orbit around its player's body? Check. Affected vocals that sound like a singing high-school locker? Check. One-bar pause to precede a chorus in half time? Check.
I saw this commercial last night while watching the funniest movie ever made — Oliver Stone’s The Doors — on VH1 Classic. From across the room, I literally thought this was a Paramore video. It wasn’t until this morning — when I looked it up and watched it on a computer monitor 10 inches from my face — that I realized this might actually be a different band, even if in name only. I just found out what it feels like to fail a Pepsi Challenge. Paramore is more than just “a band.” They’re two bands, at least.
- The 2011 Honda PCX 125 Paramore Concert Tour Edition Scooter.
In addition to moonlighting as automotive designers for Honda, they’re “rocking out for the environment” with help from the Japanese car company. According to the video below, the band has been “learning a lot from Honda about how [they] can make a difference,” in the environment. Among their green initiatives is “some serious recycling.” Forget Honda, they could learn everything there is to know about recycling from Evolove.
In other Paramore news, according to Buddyhead’s latest gossip entry — not the most reliable source, I know — a Franklin storage unit rented by singer Hayley Williams and New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert was recently broken into. A test pressing of Minor Threat’s Out of Step, reportedly valued at more than $5,000, was among the pilfered items. Does anyone know if this is true? I’d like to know if I should be trolling Craigslist for that hot wax.
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I wish I could "thumbs up" this post because I think it's funny but I don't have anything to add to it. Just saying.
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Evolove have a song called "2012" about — guess what! — the year 2012. The song itself is bad enough, but if you want to pull all of your hair out and/or go into a face-palm coma, read all of the comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06UZMWgaLg
Wow, "2012" has the most shockingly bone-headed lyrics since ICP's "Miracles." Awesome.
JESUS CHRIST IS EVERYONE JUST GOING TO FUCKING SING LIKE GWEN STEFANI FOR THE REST OF OUR GOD FORSAKEN LIVES???
wow... what an insulting article... this girl does not sound like hayley at all. youre only comparing because they are both female fronted.
Yeah, because I compare Hayley Williams to Patti Smith and Fergie to PJ Harvey ALL THE TIME.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXqI8y0U8k…
"in this world there is no love unless it's evolove"
truer words were never spoken
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