Paramore Listening Party- Just about the best time I’ve had in a looooooong time
So Gracie and I had been waiting for this Friday to come since we found out about the listening party on lj (last week). So we got all hyped up and wore our Paramore merch from the concert and brought a few of our friends along.
First, we left the house at and picked up my friend a few blocks down and we were off by 6:35. It only took us around 15 minutes and we were directly in front of the mall walking to the front entrance. My friend decided it was funny to joke and psych me out and told me there was a huge line coming out of the store. Dork wad. There was NO ONE THERE. Well I called Gracie and we met at the entrance of Hot Topic. when we got in there it was really boring and we were just trying on glasses and acting like the stupid teenies we really are =P haha. Well the people working there ended up being hardcore Paramore fans as well, so like you might expect, we became very good friends with the employees xD I started talking to one of the girls about warped and how I might go in August, and she told me she was going to one I’m planning on going on. They started to countdown until it was 7 o’clock and “For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic” started bumping in the store. I think my heart skipped a beat when I heard Zac pounding on his drums and the chilling guitar chords. It was so surreal because RIOT! is why June of 2007 is so dang special. Plus, hearing that song recorded made it so awesome because the rest of us had only heard it live, and it was a tad bit hard to understand the lyrics at first. Well Gracie and I started headbanging and dancing around. Gracie and our friend Mary hit each other on accident while ATTEMPTING to headbang. One of the chicks was like “oh my god, you know all the words I’ve been watching you from a distance!” lol it was so funny. haha, good times..anywho the WHOLE ENTIRE album is too amazing for words. If you didn’t go to Hot Topic for whatever reason today, just know that when you get the record, be prepared for honest/heartfelt lyrics combines with different beats and rhythms. It’s definitely an album you HAVE to buy. All the employees were singing and dancing to Misery Business and they quizzed us and we got all of them right and got a couple of discount cards, So, yeah, we didn’t get free hoodies or shirts, but we made good friends and that opened a door for us to hopefully work at Hot topic later in the future =] We stayed in the store for an hour and 1/2 to listen to RIOT! two times, hehe.
**Oh yeah, all the employees met ALL of Paramore and said they were so down to earth and non-egotistic. They met them and they played for them at the Hot Topic Headquarters. Pretty awesome.
A Hot Topic employee from a different store actually did Hayley’s mohawk because she thought it looked so good on the girl she wanted her to do her hair like that. Hayley is so wicked AWESOME! ahhh! and the girl who told us all this will send us pictures of Hayley getting her mohawk done, so look out for those in the next coming days!
The second best day of my life. The first would have to be me being in touching distance of Josh Farro and Hayley Williams at the Paramore concert, seeing them live and as an added bonus, getting my pictures posted on paramore.org ^_^
******random, but Hayley’s headline on myspace: “psh… journalists.” HAHAHA!
PEACE 😉
-Annette
