Last we heard from Franklin, Tenn.-bred emo-pop sensations Paramore, they were playing

their big (if somewhat undersold) homecoming show at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena

in November. "It’s just a really cool town to come back home to," frontwoman

Hayley Williams told our own Adam Gold

in advance of the show. "I really don’t know that I would ever love any other city the way that I love Nashville."

Williams & Co. returned to their hometown back in December to shoot a video for the tune "Ain't It Fun," and you can watch that above. As you'll see, the Sophia Peel-directed clip features the band breaking a series of world records, arbitrary (and mildly dubious) as some of them may be — "longest scream while riding in a convertible" and "longest time spinning vinyl record on finger" and so forth. Well, if you think you can do better, the band has invited you to do so: Visit their Record Setter page to challenge all of their records. I'm fairly certain that someone at a slumber party somewhere has beaten that "fastest time to unwrap a mummy" record.

Anyway, as for the tune itself, while it has a bit of the snarly attitude you might associate with pop punk or emo pop or whatever you'd like to call it, I think, sonically, it lands somewhere between Amy Grant and Rhythm Nation-era Janet. Nothing wrong with a bit of unabashed pop, if that's your thing. Now, skip on after the jump to see some raw, silly footage of Williams and her cohorts going for those records.

Paramore Breaks a Bunch of Arbitrary World Records in 'Ain't It Fun' [Fresh Vid]

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