Monday, July 26, 2010

Wind-in-the-hair helps

So. I like Paramore. Emo pop rock, yeah, I'm a dork. I have always found it astounding that the lead singer Hayley Williams is only 21. I guess she just plain looks older than that, but her stage presence and voice, as well as some of their songs, are so much more mature than that. Then today I was reading Paramore's Wikipedia page and learned that the band was basically formed when three of the members were 13, around the time Williams began taking voice lessons. Suddenly, everything made more sense. She's been a trained singer since a young age. None of this just happened for her. She studied. She's a student of the discipline. This explains why, from the first time I watched the music video of their song Decode*, I thought two things:
Thing #1: "Wow, this girl's really pretty!"
Thing #2: "Oh my gosh this girl has really good singing technique with regard to mouth shape/tongue/facial muscles."

*I must clarify that I am not a Twilight fan or anything, and therefore do not particularly like this music video, or this song, for that matter. My favorite Paramore song by a mile is Hallelujah.

1 comment:

tim said...

actually haha the soundtrack of twilight is very well put together. a lot of cool bands in it! and i agree, hayley looks gorgeous