Radio pop meets club music at KIIS-FM's annual Wango Tango
Wango Tango's most convincing non-electronic act — remember that appellation, as it may turn up at the Grammy Awards should dance music continue its expansion — was Paramore, the live-wire emo-rock band that raced headlong through its sharp, potent songs but also paused in "Ain't It Fun" so that it could "take you to church," as singer Hayley Williams put it.
That meant it was time for a funky slap-bass solo from Jeremy Davis, Paramore's self-conscious nod to a tradition of rootsy, hand-played sounds.
The solo went over well; it drew cheers from an audience that hasn't yet evolved out of its reflex to applaud a musician handling an instrument while illuminated by a spotlight.
But Williams knew which way the wind was blowing at Wango Tango. After Paramore played, she popped back onstage near the end of Zedd's performance to join him for their computerized stadium-rave hit "Stay the Night."
She was raging with the machine, not against it.
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