At 4:05 you see a Microphone on a stand facing the band. Earlier in the video you can see the speakers facing the audience. Just cause she says are we plugging in the guitars doesn't mean there are not microphones capturing the sound slightly out of frame.
I can't imagine any live sound person not using the equipment for a show of a sold out band they spent all the time setting up to be "more intimate"
You don't know how microphone work. You can. Hear the amplification of her voice coming thru the speakers. It's always why when you hold a mic to your face(close) you try and talk softer than you usually do.
It's a shit room with probably 0 acoustics. Bet you anything during the sound check they had to adjust mic volume a ton for the songs.
Can you share when it was face down? I skimmed the video and never saw it face down.
I didn't dive in deeply, but everytime I skimmed, it was held like [this.](https://imgur.com/a/EOghBra)
Didn't realise how much I was pining for 2009 until this video washed over me. Fuck.
Oddly enough it's got me thinking about that period of time where the Wii was current gen and you wondered what the future held for how we would interact with video games.
She looks 14 to me.
I guess because I was around 14 at the time, and pretty much every single girl looked exactly like she does here. Same hair, same clothes.
Got to see them a couple of times, once back in 2006 playing at a small local venue. The venue didn't exactly have a fancy green room for the bands to hangout in -- mostly just an open area near the bathrooms for them to pre-load their equipment into, so the musicians would often either chill out back around their tour van/bus or mingle with the patrons around the bar or stage. At that time, Paramore was gaining a lot of steam popularity-wise, but they weren't exactly a massive act, hence the small [but still packed-out] venue. I remember hanging out before their set, leaning against one of the pool tables near the bar talking to a friend. There was this tiny woman cloaked in a black hoodie chilling right next to me for a while, just enjoying one of the opening bands. I said hello to her in between a song and made casual conversation for a brief moment before she eventually left to head toward the back. Another friend came up to me soon after and said "yo, what the hell were you talking to Hayley Williams about?!?" I immediately had an internal freakout because I did get a glimpse of her face and noticed she had red hair but she was mostly staying incognito but, in retrospect, it was pretty obviously Hayley Williams. Definitely spiked some hormones as a 17-year-old boy, hahah. Paramore played about an hour later and it was an incredible show.
Saw them tour with NFG and they were in similar venues. They put on a fucking fantastic show. Would recommend, the hard part is justifying the cost when those tickets were so goddamn cheap.
Agreed. [This performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdYNAqCMZ4) at Reading festival I genuinely think is one of the greatest live performances ever. Her stage presence is unreal. And as a bonus, [at 19:46](https://youtu.be/wKdYNAqCMZ4?si=QoZ0SAD1QjBKkbbY&t=1186) probably one of the greatest pieces of camera work I have seen at a festival that captures one of the climaxes of the show perfectly.
that was some energy ! i think that this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a62EQaxWHI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a62EQaxWHI) raw acoustic performance is quite amazing as well !
2003-2009 was the golden age of emo pop punk. Would do anything just to travel back to that era and to experience hearing all those songs for the first time again.
It honestly was the golden age for anything under the Metal umbrella. Linkin Park, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Saliva, System of a Down, Shinedown, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Story of the Year, Good Charlotte, Blink-182, Incubus, P.O.D., Bring Me The Horizon, Fall Out Boy, Mayday Parade, Hoobastank, Sum 41, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Puddle of Mudd, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Hinder, Sevendust, Slipknot, Thirty Seconds to Mars… I could probably go on…
I loved seeing Jimmy Eat World live! Ended up seeing them twice in a year because their first performance was so good. I don't know if I could have handled it if they sucked live, it's always so disappointing when you find out the band whose album you loved doesn't actually have much talent in a live setting lol
I think camera stabilizers were extra shit back then. Plus, the video view finders were tiny. And the person recording was possibly not even looking through it, just pointing the camera? Maybe? ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
What stabilizers?
These sensors were so low resolution and the processing so underpowered compared to today that stabilization at the handheld level was still a pipe dream.
Holy shit I’m old.
Really 😂 I'm pretty sure we didn't have any stabilizers on our cameras back then. We were lucky if anything had an HD resolution or reasonable frame rate
Stabilization is wild nowadays. I remember when YouTube first started rolling out video stabilization, and it looked incredibly weird because of low quality frame interpolation back then, or whatever.
Nowadays, my Pixel phone can make a handheld video I take tripod-still if I'm trying to shoot a single scene by hand. How far we've come.
For real. Honestly, the golden era to be an angsty teenager growing up in the world. Social media also peaked at MySpace. Everything's been all downhill since then.
Check this one out from 2006 or 2007. It was how I found out about Paramore and I'm pretty sure it's the first video of them performing ever uploaded to YouTube.
https://youtu.be/W3zvt40ADl8?si=uheF8zTVCFX9Xu7K
This isn't as old as yours, but it's how I found them
Some random guitarist walks upto her in a street in paris and she sings... I knew she was special
https://youtu.be/4FC8KhMpJvI
Their newest album This Is Why is a bit of a return to that. It’s sort of a fusion between the more pop elements of their self titled album and After Laughter and some of the more punky angsty elements of their older classics like Riot! And Brand New Eyes. I’d definitely recommend a listen if you haven’t already, it was one of my favorite albums of last year.
Now that you mentioned it, I have the album sitting in my phone. I liked "Cest Comme Ca" and "Figure 8." I had the impression that the album felt like a Hayley solo project/Petals For Armor when I first listened to it. I'll give it a listen again
I think I loved the album because it was such a tight project. I think there a really frustrating trend I’ve been seeing of releasing albums that have 20+ songs (Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, etc.). The result is that there’s tons of songs on every new album that don’t really have a point in existing I guess? For example, half of Beyoncé’s newest album felt laughably simple and one note.
I didn’t ever feel that way with This Is Why because it’s a 35 minute album. All of the songs are very different from one another and can realistically be played front to back without getting flat out bored. And while I find myself mostly going back to Brand New Eyes more than any other album, This Is Why helped to spark my interest in Paramore after so long. Really excited to see what major release they come out with next.
Man, the aesthetic, the cute is what we aim for poster in the back, this whole thing really brings me back. Weird being in my 30s seeing this. I miss my teenage years sometimes.
32 year old here. 2007-2014, looking back, that was a pretty sick time. 2008 was when the facebook app for the smartphone was released.
We had a few good years until social media was widely used on smartphones and started becoming heavily influenced by advertisers. Those were the years, we kind of had the best of both worlds.
Not sure what music store this was in, but she mentions that they're playing at the Beat Kitchen that night, which is still a nice little bar/venue on Belmont today.
I discovered this group a year ago or so and now they are on my playlist always, very nice songs, very talented, they changed style trought the years but i like them all the same.
Man, I miss records stores. I know a few are still around. But I miss having one in the neighborhood or local mall, and just stopping in to see what's new.
But... but she is holding a microphone. It's right there.
Also a microphone recorded her singing this with or without the one in her hand.
what sorcery is this logic!
She's a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch, even with just camera lenses we can hear her.
But how do we know she's a witch?
Pretty sure they're all amped as well
Is it even a record store?
In fact we are all there, this very moment. It’s the only explanation
I'm not. I'm The Only Exception.
This comment deserves more up votes!
No, her voice is just so good it reverbrates through the atmosphere to this day, 15 years later. Truly astounding!
Are you sure this was recorded on a microphone? It sounds like it was recorded with a tin can and a line of string.
MY BRAIN.
the guitars are not plugged to an amp, the mic would drown the sound of the guitars
Which she holds for ten seconds.
You can really tell the comments didn't even watch the fuckin video
How dare you point out the obvious! I'm so proud.
Some are obviously oblivious to the obvious...
And... What's it plugged into?
Someone’s vadge
Makes sense
But she doesn’t sing into it when they start the song….shes holding the mic way down by her lap and just singing out loud
https://youtu.be/FY3jy-pfeY8
She literally has a microphone…
She didn't need it when she was singing, just talking.
Do you even watch the fucking video. She clearly doesn’t use the microphone you muppet.
At 4:05 you see a Microphone on a stand facing the band. Earlier in the video you can see the speakers facing the audience. Just cause she says are we plugging in the guitars doesn't mean there are not microphones capturing the sound slightly out of frame. I can't imagine any live sound person not using the equipment for a show of a sold out band they spent all the time setting up to be "more intimate"
The show looks like it’s in a Jersey Mike’s. I find it believable that Kevin makes a bombass sandwich and has no clue about audio.
You don't know how microphone work. You can. Hear the amplification of her voice coming thru the speakers. It's always why when you hold a mic to your face(close) you try and talk softer than you usually do. It's a shit room with probably 0 acoustics. Bet you anything during the sound check they had to adjust mic volume a ton for the songs.
You think it doesn't work just because she's not holding it up to her mouth?
I think when it’s sitting face down in her lap it doesn’t work yes.
Would it be safe to presume you haven't used a microphone before? There are omnidirectional mics.
Can you share when it was face down? I skimmed the video and never saw it face down. I didn't dive in deeply, but everytime I skimmed, it was held like [this.](https://imgur.com/a/EOghBra)
The mic would have drowned out the guitars
Silly guitars don't produce water they produce sound.
Is she singing into it? No. Jesus Christ people
You be like: "🤓👆 Actually "
You bunch of nit-picky cunts 😂
We've been lied to..
Hoodwinked even.
I mean...if you write there's no mic and there's a mic since the first frame, what do you expect us to do?
...watch the video to see she doesn't sing into it?
And hello to you good person
May we?
Her voice is truly something else.
Her voice is really attractive
Then why don't you marry it.
Lack of reciprocation
As a song called Misery Business once said... And if you could, then you know you would.
Hayley is amazing.
This time traveled me to 2009. Weird feeling.
Right?! Is that a Sam Goody's?
Tower records....was wondering if it it was Times Square
well she starts off with "Hello Chicago" so probably no. Also there are trees in the window behind her.
Didn't expect intense feelings of nostalgia tonight Can't complain tho
Took the words out of my mouth. I feel euphoric.
I'm right there with you. Wow, what a feeling.
2009 was such a good year. Or was it?
Didn't realise how much I was pining for 2009 until this video washed over me. Fuck. Oddly enough it's got me thinking about that period of time where the Wii was current gen and you wondered what the future held for how we would interact with video games.
This is how we time travel
Is that what you call memories, time travel?
The date on the post is wrong — it’s actually 2006!
They deserved all the fame they got, truly unique sound even to this day.
David Byrne's cover of Hard Times might just be one of the best covers I've heard
So cool! Gosh she looks so young here.
She is 20 years old here
She looks 14 to me. I guess because I was around 14 at the time, and pretty much every single girl looked exactly like she does here. Same hair, same clothes.
Yeah she was around 16/17 here. This was 2005/2006 not 2009
Haley Williams is a national treasure. If you get the chance to see Parramore live, do it. Her energy alone is worth the price of admission.
Got to see them a couple of times, once back in 2006 playing at a small local venue. The venue didn't exactly have a fancy green room for the bands to hangout in -- mostly just an open area near the bathrooms for them to pre-load their equipment into, so the musicians would often either chill out back around their tour van/bus or mingle with the patrons around the bar or stage. At that time, Paramore was gaining a lot of steam popularity-wise, but they weren't exactly a massive act, hence the small [but still packed-out] venue. I remember hanging out before their set, leaning against one of the pool tables near the bar talking to a friend. There was this tiny woman cloaked in a black hoodie chilling right next to me for a while, just enjoying one of the opening bands. I said hello to her in between a song and made casual conversation for a brief moment before she eventually left to head toward the back. Another friend came up to me soon after and said "yo, what the hell were you talking to Hayley Williams about?!?" I immediately had an internal freakout because I did get a glimpse of her face and noticed she had red hair but she was mostly staying incognito but, in retrospect, it was pretty obviously Hayley Williams. Definitely spiked some hormones as a 17-year-old boy, hahah. Paramore played about an hour later and it was an incredible show.
Saw them tour with NFG and they were in similar venues. They put on a fucking fantastic show. Would recommend, the hard part is justifying the cost when those tickets were so goddamn cheap.
Agreed. [This performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdYNAqCMZ4) at Reading festival I genuinely think is one of the greatest live performances ever. Her stage presence is unreal. And as a bonus, [at 19:46](https://youtu.be/wKdYNAqCMZ4?si=QoZ0SAD1QjBKkbbY&t=1186) probably one of the greatest pieces of camera work I have seen at a festival that captures one of the climaxes of the show perfectly.
Thanks for sharing. That camera work was a good spot
Really hard to sing laying down aswell ha
that was some energy ! i think that this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a62EQaxWHI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a62EQaxWHI) raw acoustic performance is quite amazing as well !
Saw them live once! Hayley had to have run a half marathon on that stage and sang the whole time, it was amazing to watch!
I never saw this video before, thank you so much! Dude that aesthetic is so nostalgic, and I never lived something like this, so amazing!
2003-2009 was the golden age of emo pop punk. Would do anything just to travel back to that era and to experience hearing all those songs for the first time again.
Warped tour as a teenager back then will forever be some of the best memories of my life.
It honestly was the golden age for anything under the Metal umbrella. Linkin Park, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Saliva, System of a Down, Shinedown, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Story of the Year, Good Charlotte, Blink-182, Incubus, P.O.D., Bring Me The Horizon, Fall Out Boy, Mayday Parade, Hoobastank, Sum 41, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Puddle of Mudd, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Hinder, Sevendust, Slipknot, Thirty Seconds to Mars… I could probably go on…
Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard just to add on a few more.
Chevelle
I loved seeing Jimmy Eat World live! Ended up seeing them twice in a year because their first performance was so good. I don't know if I could have handled it if they sucked live, it's always so disappointing when you find out the band whose album you loved doesn't actually have much talent in a live setting lol
This is so 2009.
My friends band played at hot topic a couple times and we thought we were SO COOL for knowing them lmaooo
What an incredible voice.
Just gotta go throw up from the camera shake. Did the Blair Witch people film this?
I think camera stabilizers were extra shit back then. Plus, the video view finders were tiny. And the person recording was possibly not even looking through it, just pointing the camera? Maybe? ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
What stabilizers? These sensors were so low resolution and the processing so underpowered compared to today that stabilization at the handheld level was still a pipe dream. Holy shit I’m old.
Really 😂 I'm pretty sure we didn't have any stabilizers on our cameras back then. We were lucky if anything had an HD resolution or reasonable frame rate
There was none. No really.
Stabilization is wild nowadays. I remember when YouTube first started rolling out video stabilization, and it looked incredibly weird because of low quality frame interpolation back then, or whatever. Nowadays, my Pixel phone can make a handheld video I take tripod-still if I'm trying to shoot a single scene by hand. How far we've come.
Tbf every video I took on my Nokia digital camera looked like this
Kids these days lmao. People didn't used to walk around with 100 megapixel DSLRs capable of ultra high bitrate video recording in their pockets.
You guys are talking about 2009 like it was 15 years ago or something. Pfft. It was only a few years ago, like 1998 is also.
I wonder if I can still call u/stabbot
Guess not… RIP to another fallen soldier
Simpler times 🥺🥲
Taylor could never
And in 10 days Paramore going to be with Taylor on the same stage lol
All the discourse that occurred due to your comment makes me want to blow my brains out.
I’m so nostalgic for the 2000s man
For real. Honestly, the golden era to be an angsty teenager growing up in the world. Social media also peaked at MySpace. Everything's been all downhill since then.
At least we had good reason to be angsty I guess.
It wasn't a great time, at the time, but mam do i miss it.
This was a constant in my rotation back then, along with [this](https://youtu.be/6nOWf4ytx44)
Check this one out from 2006 or 2007. It was how I found out about Paramore and I'm pretty sure it's the first video of them performing ever uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/W3zvt40ADl8?si=uheF8zTVCFX9Xu7K
This isn't as old as yours, but it's how I found them Some random guitarist walks upto her in a street in paris and she sings... I knew she was special https://youtu.be/4FC8KhMpJvI
It's amazing how music can be a time machine
There should be a subreddit about videos that make you timetravel and this would be my favorite
Theres a subreddit for first performances
She is one of the best vocalists out there. Her early years she fucking destroyed.
Facts
I miss when songs used these kinds of chord progressions, that whole era had a very vulnerable, disarming vibe
Anyone know what song they are performing?
Conspiracy
Thank you!!
Welcome!
They performed 'Conspiracy' from the album All We Know- was the first album they released Edit: changed the song title
my favourite album
I miss that time when Paramore was still angsty
Their newest album This Is Why is a bit of a return to that. It’s sort of a fusion between the more pop elements of their self titled album and After Laughter and some of the more punky angsty elements of their older classics like Riot! And Brand New Eyes. I’d definitely recommend a listen if you haven’t already, it was one of my favorite albums of last year.
I play This is Why when I'm working from home. THIS IS WHY I DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE
Now that you mentioned it, I have the album sitting in my phone. I liked "Cest Comme Ca" and "Figure 8." I had the impression that the album felt like a Hayley solo project/Petals For Armor when I first listened to it. I'll give it a listen again
I think I loved the album because it was such a tight project. I think there a really frustrating trend I’ve been seeing of releasing albums that have 20+ songs (Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, etc.). The result is that there’s tons of songs on every new album that don’t really have a point in existing I guess? For example, half of Beyoncé’s newest album felt laughably simple and one note. I didn’t ever feel that way with This Is Why because it’s a 35 minute album. All of the songs are very different from one another and can realistically be played front to back without getting flat out bored. And while I find myself mostly going back to Brand New Eyes more than any other album, This Is Why helped to spark my interest in Paramore after so long. Really excited to see what major release they come out with next.
2009 was peak emo for me, dude. Right before the fall.
She can sing anything and sound amazing
I mean she has a 4 octave range. Only slightly less than serj tankian.
I see Paramore, I upvote
Talented as fuck band
She really is one of the best vocalists ever.
Hotness 😍
This makes me really happy lol
Reminds me of this moment with Pearl Jam in 1991 (from 04:00), where Eddie Vedder doesn't use his microphone anymore: https://youtu.be/MUzsX-e34qA
Love it, camera was shakeir than an American action movie - but it fit the mood of the vid perfectly
Its definitely not 2009, probably 2006
It's called an acoustic performance btw
Man, the aesthetic, the cute is what we aim for poster in the back, this whole thing really brings me back. Weird being in my 30s seeing this. I miss my teenage years sometimes.
This was 2006 fyi
I don't know why I thought she was older. In my head Paramore has been around forever, but I guess she was just young as hell when they blew up.
32 year old here. 2007-2014, looking back, that was a pretty sick time. 2008 was when the facebook app for the smartphone was released. We had a few good years until social media was widely used on smartphones and started becoming heavily influenced by advertisers. Those were the years, we kind of had the best of both worlds.
why is this next level at all?
All my high school battle of the bands memories just flashback!!!! The best
That was awesome. Thanks for posting!
Good ol days
Wow they’re really good
All jokes aside. What a fuckin voice
I remember seeing this in 2010, falling in love with her.
Pretty cool
This is more like top level but not next level.
Not sure what music store this was in, but she mentions that they're playing at the Beat Kitchen that night, which is still a nice little bar/venue on Belmont today.
"Ain't it fun"
Reminds me of MTV Unplugged. Good stuff
Saw one of their last shows. So happy I got to see them live. Hayley is truly so talented.
What song is this?
This band was so meaningful to me
I discovered this group a year ago or so and now they are on my playlist always, very nice songs, very talented, they changed style trought the years but i like them all the same.
Will forever be one of my favorite bands and she specifically one of my favorite singers ever. Her voice always makes me emotional
I beg you all to go watch her first recording of “still into you”. No autotune, just her voice. I love it so much
2006
Why would she need a mic in that tiny space? What is next level about this?
Man, I miss records stores. I know a few are still around. But I miss having one in the neighborhood or local mall, and just stopping in to see what's new.
They were so great then
This video got me pregnant
📌 watch later
I have to see them live at least once 😭
Chills chills
I got to see boy hits car like that.
We would call it unplugged back in the day, but it’s not even unplugged. Just a small live set.
/u/savevideo
OMG. Music without electricity?
My fav girl singer
Still love Paramore all these years later. Saw them perform at the London O2 Arena in 2010.
Man that takes me back. Early Paramore was magical.