Paramore is ready for its close-up, again. One of my college students greeted me last week by telling me the highlight of her summer was seeing Paramore headline a festival on the beach in New Jersey. I also took my teen and preteen daughters to Van's Warped tours consecutive summers 2005-2006. They didn't want to hang around with me (of course), so missed out on meeting Joan Jett, who invited me to cool off in her trailer.
Ha, I'm going to leave emo to the emo generation, unless we all do some sort of cross-discussion or collaboration. I had taken leave of music during the peak emo years to write about food for various New York and NJ newspapers.
The weird purity tests and Talmudic debates about which bands were acceptable and which were sellouts (or who was "down," and who was a poser) were bad enough in the early 90s, but at least there wasn't any social media throwing gas on the fire.
Paramore is ready for its close-up, again. One of my college students greeted me last week by telling me the highlight of her summer was seeing Paramore headline a festival on the beach in New Jersey. I also took my teen and preteen daughters to Van's Warped tours consecutive summers 2005-2006. They didn't want to hang around with me (of course), so missed out on meeting Joan Jett, who invited me to cool off in her trailer.
Oh my gosh I love that hahaha. Also, I owe you an email response!! I haven't forgotten!
Please tell me this will be an upcoming article (or is in the archive somewhere).
Ha, I'm going to leave emo to the emo generation, unless we all do some sort of cross-discussion or collaboration. I had taken leave of music during the peak emo years to write about food for various New York and NJ newspapers.
New generation, same shitty gatekeeping.
The weird purity tests and Talmudic debates about which bands were acceptable and which were sellouts (or who was "down," and who was a poser) were bad enough in the early 90s, but at least there wasn't any social media throwing gas on the fire.
Thanks Katie. Get in touch whenever it works. 😎