There's a purposeful and compelling uneasiness to this new Paramore video — directed by Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates — that all seems to revolve around a band van crash.
Paramore's Hayley Williams grapples with some studio restlessness until her imagination takes over and we get transported to a series of creative worlds.
Hayley Williams and her Paramore bandmates indulge in their Anchorman dreams — with a little O'Reilly ad-libbery — in this old-school, local broadcast news homage.
Paramore hasn't gone full-on pop, but there's a definitely Pop Art meets Blondie vibe to this rhythmic song and a video that starts amidst the clouds and gets increasingly animated and colorful as it proceeds.
Sometimes you break so many world records that it becomes a world record in and of itself. So, congratulations to Paramore and director Sophia Peer on breaking the most world records in a single music video.
Sure, some of these feats seem a bit random — Most Vinyl Records Broken By 3 People in 1 Minute, Fastest Time To Run Backwards Holding Stuffed Animals While Blindfolded For 30 Feet — but the fact remains that nobdoy has done any of these things better. And if you think you could one-up them, head to Paramore's recordsetter.com page and try your best.
Pastel colors pop as Hayley Williams and her Paramore cohorts get happy in a mansion that looks like it was designed by a dollhouse aficionado. Each room offers a new delight: The very birthday bedroom, a ballroom with walls mapped by projected fireworks, plus a boat ride through a ballooon sea, ballet dancers and even some in-house BMX biking for the boys.
Even though it's clear that nothing is gonna harm Paramore's Hayley Williams as she strides against an epic battlefield, she still has an incentive to bring all the fighting in the end. If only a hug was all it took to end war in real life too.
