Let me first start this off with talking about my relationship with Paramore. I first started to love them back in 2010 after discovering their "hits", That's What You Get, Misery Business, Brick By Boring Brick, etc. But after getting impatient with a lack of proper musical releases, besides a 2011 EP, and proper touring in the states, I stopped to listen to them as much. That all stopped in late 2012 when the band announced they would be putting out a new album in 2013. The first single off the Self-Titled album, Now, dropped in late January and I was brought back to be a hardcore. I was antsy during the lead-up to the early April release and got another track off the album, Still Into You, when it was played live at South By Southwest in Austin, TX. Still Into You is probably the most popular track off the album so far, but it's my least favorite. I appreciate radical changes in music as much as anyone but this was a bit too far for me as a Paramore fan. I understand the message and love that Hayley, Taylor and Jeremy had the courage to release something like this. It showed their faith in the band it's amazing fanbase. But the album dropped and I loved the rest of it. From Fast in my Car to Future, I still can't get enough of this album. The band announced an Atlanta date for the tour, but I was gutted to see that it was the night before my finals. My dad said I couldn't go so I had to wait for another tour. Late July, I see a rumor that the band will be announcing an arena tour for the Fall. One warm July morning I wake up to a video announcing tour dates. At the end of the video the tour dates start to scroll down. I see two dates for Florida pass and think that will be it for the southeast. But then to my surprise I see Nashville pop up at the end and my hearts stops. Finally after Nashville, I see Atlanta, the last date of the Self-Titled Tour. I freak out and buy a ticket that afternoon. But in order for General Admission, you had to buy it with a credit card and show up at the show with the credit card in order to get it. I was in a dilemma because I would be going to this show alone. A little dissapointed, I buy a second row seat around the "50 Yard Line" of the arena. Time passes and November 27th comes around.
Instead of a few sentences about the show, how about I post my short review I made
So I had a seat on the second row around the middle of the arena. I HATES seats so I was sorta depressed with not being close up. BUT IN A CRAZY TURN OF EVENTS, there was a man asking for one seat so he can stay for his daughters. Tyler, knowing GA would not be sold out, sold it to the man for 30 dollars and then purchased a GA seat for 45. As soon as I walked in, the doors open. Sadly I didn't have enough time to purchase merch. I rushed the floor and ends up 6 rows back on Jeremy's side.
I had to wait an hour for the opening acts to start. hellogoodbye was AWESOME but Metric was just ok, even though their guitarist was incredible.
so the lights go out and the intro go Grow Up starts and the crowd goes crazy
Highlights: Grow Up, Daydreaming, Last Hope, Brick by Boring Brick, Ain't It Fun, In the Mouring, Misery Business, and Ignorance
- getting so close after selling seat
- the band's energy. I've never seen anything like them live
- being the last show of their biggest tour yet
- the crowd was tiny, I was one of the taller people there
Not-so-Highlights - Still Into You
- the crowd consisted of a lot of casual fans who knew only the hits
- Hayley had strep
- because Hayley had strep, they had to cut 2 songs
- NOT GETTING MERCH
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Day 1: We left the hotel at 8 AM with around a 2 hour ride to Miami. We parked our car in an off-site lot, to save money of course. But after an hour and a half of waiting for the shuttle I began to really worry about getting to the ship. Thankfully, around 11:45 the shuttle picked us up and drove us 10 minutes to the Port of Miami. We got off the bus and I had a grin on my face that wouldn’t leave all weekend. There were Paramore shirts as far as the eye could see. I was in heaven. It took only 20 minutes to get through customs and we were on the ship! We bought our soda pass so we didn’t have to keep individually charge on our cards. Side Note: Drinks cost A LOT. We definitely got our money’s worth with the unlimited pass. We got our lunch and sat on the upper deck waiting for the 3PM safety briefing followed by some walking around when I met Hayley’s boyfriend Chad from New Found Glory. We got our safety station and I was a bit worried. The stage was on the 12th deck in the middle of the ship, as you could see by one of the pictures I posted before I left, but our safety station was on level 6 in the lower level of the big theater where I would see Tegan and Sara, Shiny Toy Guns, Bad Rabbits, New Found Glory and mewithoutyou. The briefing ended at 3:15 and we all speed walked up to the 12th deck. To my surprise, the front of stage area wasn’t too packed yet, probably because the show wasn’t until 5
. I found my spot, about 9 rows behind Taylor and endured the what-I-thought was a long wait. The clock hits 5 and with the sun still out, Paramore hits the stage. They start off with one of my top 5 favorites For a Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic. Followed by Emergency, a song that hasn’t been played since 2011 and the first surprise of the night, I Caught Myself, the better of the two Twilight songs IMO. They ripped through a set containing songs mostly from last year’s Self Titled Tour, Fast in My Car, Now, When It Rains, In the Mourning, Daydreaming, Ain’t it Fun along with the usual hits That’s What You Get, Ignorance, The Only Exception, Brick by Boring Brick Pressure and Misery Business. But the best surprise of the night was the live debut of the B-Side Escape Route from the Self Titled sessions. After a great show, my dad * who watched the show from the back* and I grabbed some dinner. I was exhausted from the previous day and the show I decided to make it an easy night. I decided to sample each of the three concerts of the night then call it early to save some energy. First was the LA band Shiny Toy Guns. I was pretty impressed with their show; I was hoping they would have CDs for sale but alas they didn’t but I planned on seeing them again. New Found Glory was not impressive live. I started to enjoy some of their songs but they did not translate well live. You couldn’t make everything out, the noise coming from the amps just sounded like a large BANG! I caught then end of Tegan and Sara’s set and they were as good and adorable live as they are on the record. Love the Canadian lesbian twins!Day 2: I expected Saturday to be the laid back, lazy day, and boy was I wrong. The day started with a trip to the Merch Store where I purchased a Parahoy! shirt, mewithoutyou shirt, a mewithoutyou CD, 2 Bad Rabbits CDs and a Parahoy chain thingy
Then we grabbed some lunch and saw the singer from Bad Rabbits and singer and drummer from New Found Glory. The activities started around 1 with Cocky Basketball qualifiers. Definitely look up Cocky basketball on youtube, one of the best videos out there. Next was Belly Flop with Jeremy and Doug Benson. There were flops galore, with the eventual winner being the soon to be King of Parahoy, RAINBOW BEARD. Following that was Musical Chair with New Found Glory. This wasn’t you’re normal Musical Chairs; each round was different including the Twerking round, Bobbing for ducks round, the dress up round and the blindfold round. After that was over we headed over to the Pool deck for some PARAOKE! I was not expecting this to be as much fun as it was. I lined up about 30 minutes before the start because I knew Paramore would be the guest judges 
. I’ve never seen so many great singers do karaoke in my life. They performed all the hits with crowd and band interaction. In the end, a 14 year old girl, who was actually one cabin down from me, won with Still Into You. After getting a bite at the Italian restaurant we headed over for Doug Benson. There were many great jokes made including jokes Rainbow Beard and the soon to be Parahoy! catch phrase, WASHY WASHY, HAPPY HAPPY, SMILEY SMILEY, which is what Norweigan workers would say before spraying you with hand sanitizer before entering the buffet. The place was packed due to the increase in popularity of Mr. Benson after the Belly Flop, so we ended up pretty far back. Later that night we got our seats in the theater for the concerts tonight hosted by Shiny Toy Guns followed by Tegan and Sara. Shiny Toy Guns were awesome again and Tegan and Sara put on a fantastic show, probably my favorite non-Paramore show of the weekend. During the show the ladies were handed a giraffe hat which was for Tegan who loves giraffes and received a Springsteen picture and shirt and got a “BRUUUUUUUUCE” response from me and my dad 
. After a long day, we settled in our room for the night. Day 3: This was island day. We planned on getting off the boat around 10 and staying on the island til 1ish. We went to get a quick bite to each at 9:30 and started to walk back to the room. But as I was walking past the stage I saw that half of the front row was already taken. I told my dad “I’m going to go over there.” We walked down to the room to get sun screen and a very large water bottle and I settled in for the longest wait of my life. Thank goodness there were some awesome Paramore fans I got to chat with, incluing RAINBOW BEARD
Finally after a few hours of waiting and some sing-a-long, at about 1, I see some orange hair on the 13th deck. HAYLEY HEARD WE WERE LINING UP AND SINGING!!!!! She came down to visit and talked to us for a bit, telling us that we were in for a treat but also told us that they would be debuting All I Wanted 
Unfortunetly I was about 3 people back It was so cool her being that close and talking to us. Shortly after that we got a visit from TAYLOR!!! He did the same and had a quick visit and chat. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of that After a few more hours of getting burnt while waiting, 8 PM hit. An immediate surprise started the set; fan favorite (One of Those) Crazy girls started the show getting its live debut! That would be followed by Self Titled opener, Grow Up. What ensued would be my favorite back-to-back I’ve ever seen. The band cranked out my two favorite Paramore songs Never Let This Go, first play since 2010 and Playing God , first play since 2011* my favorite*. Following that two pack were two hits, CrushCrushCrush and Decode aka the Twilight Song. Then things got crazy; Miracle got its 19th play, first since 2010, Turn It Off, first time since 2010. The crew then brought out stools for Hayley, Taylor and Justin *back up guitarist and Taylor’s brother*. They dusted off Franklin for only the 6th time ever and first since 2006. After that epicness the band played all the Interludes off the Self Titled album, I’m Not Angry Anymore, Moving On and Holiday. Following the Interludes, the band played 2 songs off Paramore, Proof and Last Hope *One of my top 5 favorites* Proof was only played in the Spring so I missed it but Last Hope was played last fall, although I could never get enough of that song. How about another ridiculous surprise?? Conspiracy was dusted off for only the 27th time and first since 2009. Rounding up the main set was Hello Cold World aka the song where Hayley and I sang to each other and the hit Still Into You which is still really fun live. The encore was very interesting and surprising. The band cranked out a live classic Let the Flames Being with the Oh, Father outro consisting of Taylor spraying water on his drums and blasting them straight in front of me getting the rows in front of him damp Following Let the Flames Being was its sequal off the new album, Part II. That was really awesome to see live and I hope they do it again! All in all, it was my favorite concert of all time and it will be hard to beat. Front row with all those rarities!!!! And I cought Jeremy’s pic, although I have seem to misplaced it After that we relaxed for a few hours and ate. We checked out Jeremy’s awesome DJ set for a little while and called it a nightDay 4: The final day did not fail in entertainment. The day started at 11 with bingo with Shiny Toy Guns which was very entertaining. After some lunch we checked out some New Found Glory and they left a lot of be desired again! Following that we checked out the Cocky Basketball finals with Taylor who didn’t seem to take competition seriously while getting out first of 7 and being pretty hilarious while doing so. It pretty much reassured him as my favorite band member and possibly favorite musician. I’m not sure though, I do LOVE Hayley, Bono , Chris Martin, Springsteen, Brandon Flowers, the list goes on. Tegan and Sara played an awesome acoustic set on the Pool Deck where I got a good spot and stayed there for the much anticipated Paramore Q&A. The Q&A was probably the best thing besides the 2 Paramore shows. The questions ranged from silly, what posters you had on your walls?, to very serious, what advice do you have for young teens struggling to get through the hardships you had to go through? Following a quick dinner, we made sure to get there early for the second set for Doug Benson who was luckily moved from the lounge to the threater so I didn’t have to choose between him and Bad Rabbits. Benson walks out with two santatizer bottles, you’ll see in a picture
, and yells to the crowd “WASHY WASHY”, the crowd responded with “HAPPY HAPPY” and the everyone finshed with a “SMILEY SMILEY”. Benson proceeded by spraying the crowd 
. Next was the funkiest and one of the most energetic shows I’ve been too hosted by the awesome Boston band Bad Rabbits . For the last show of the vacation was the awesome band mewithoutyou who is actually Hayley’s and Taylor’s favorite! They were great and near the end of the set Hayley came out to sing a song she features on which happens to be my favorite! Well, that’s pretty much the highlights of the greatest weekend ever.
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First Paramore show
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Shiny Toy Guns night1
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New Found Glory night one
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Belly Flop with Doug Benson and Jeremy
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Paraoke
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Shiny Toy Guns night 2
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Tegan and Sara night 2
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Hayley meeting us on Sunday
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Paramore night 3
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Some Jeremy love, didn't get enough pics of him!
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New Found Glory day 4
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Cocky basketball
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Tegan and Sara day 4
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Paramore Q&A
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Doug Benson with the Washy Washy bottles
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Bad Rabbits
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With Hayley
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Here's Rainbow beard with Doug Benson and Jeremy
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