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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
"The Only Exception" was top ten worthy, IMO. Alas, Paramore has yet to even break the top 20... Maybe in the current climate, if the conditions are right, they can smash. However, they should have gone with "Brick By Boring Brick" as a lead single for BNE instead of "Ignorance" IMO.
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Ignorance was so weak. I liked it, but not as a lead single.
Brand New Eyes was just handled badly, aside from the BBBB and The Only Exception music videos. TOE makes me wanna go to sleep, but it was a good choice since it WAS different from everything else they released.
And to be honest, if ANY of these following songs had been hits, they deserved it more than stuff like Pumped Up Kicks, We Are Young, Hey Soul Sister, Viva La Vida, and the other overrated stuff, they are:
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Your Guardian Angel
Three Days Grace - Never Too Late
Sia - Breathe Me
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day & So Far Away
Evanescence - My Heart Is Broken
off the top of my head anyway. Why do the really GREAT and EPIC singles get shoved to the side and the stupid **** like Pumped Up Kicks and Viva La Vida and Hey Soul Sister become hits?
Oh and Slash should have released Beautiful Dangerous with Fergie because that song was EPICLY rock. Another sing to say is that the "catchy" songs don't rely on guitars these days - except for Orianthi's According to You and California King Bed by Rihanna, and both of those songs should have gone Top 10 god damn it.
Beautiful Dangerous has epic guitar and MUCH more epic vocals than all the songs I mentioned as being stupid ****.
If these alternative songs could get some epic guitar in there it would make them sound MUCH better.