{"id":29241,"date":"2015-05-08T23:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T03:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=29241"},"modified":"2015-05-09T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T04:04:06","slug":"musical-interlude-paramore-bjork-and-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/musical-interlude-paramore-bjork-and-marina\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Interlude: Paramore, Bjork and Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My concert-going friend Jessie and I have been busy lately, with the highlight being Wednesday&#8217;s Paramore show at the Beacon Theatre. Thanks to StubHub, I got second-row center seats &#8230; and thanks to Eminem and Rihanna, I had Jessie to go with. I met Jessie when I was waiting in line for <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/concert-adventure-part-i-waiting-for-the-monster-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Em and Rih&#8217;s joint Monster Tour show at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey<\/a>, and we&#8217;ve been going to <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?s=jessie+friend\" target=\"_blank\">shows together<\/a> ever since. This time, I finally took a selfie with her to prove she really exists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29242\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29242\" class=\"wp-image-29242\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-06-20.46.12.jpg\" alt=\"2015-05-06 20.46.12\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-06-20.46.12.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-06-20.46.12-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-06-20.46.12-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-06-20.46.12-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See? She&#8217;s real!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paramore&#8217;s self-titled fourth album went gold recently &#8212; two years after it came out &#8212; and the band members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paramore.net\/photo\/self-titled-gold-thank-you-our-fueledby-family-surprising-us-these-tonight-see-you-soon-nyc\" target=\"_blank\">received their plaques earlier that day<\/a>, so it felt like an extra-special concert. Here&#8217;s lead singer Hayley Williams getting choked up while talking about ending the tour for the self-titled album and preparing to working on the next album.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLi32dU_978\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another emotional moment was when the group chose an audience member to get on stage and sing &#8220;Misery Business&#8221; with them. That&#8217;s a thing that they do regularly, so a diehard fan named <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyquackquack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Longaker<\/a> came prepared. The second row was full of people waving signs saying, &#8220;Pick Kelly!&#8221; She kicked ass!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-VHDfswJ4I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I got some great photos, even though it was a challenge to keep up with Hayley as she zoomed around the stage. That gal has a lot of energy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley31watermarkresize.jpg\" alt=\"hayley31watermarkresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley31watermarkresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley31watermarkresize-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When this is full-size, her tattoo is perfectly legible!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley6watermarkresize.jpg\" alt=\"hayley6watermarkresize\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley6watermarkresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hayley6watermarkresize-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More of my best shots are in a Flickr album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32253768@N03\/sets\/72157651997937589\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Paramore fans, feel free to repost these as much as you like but please do not photoshop my watermark off especially if you&#8217;re going to put yours there instead!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Jebus\" target=\"_blank\">Jebus<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I got zero photos when Jessie and I went to see Bjork twice &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/0N_csqh9ZA\/?taken-by=wendybrandes\" target=\"_blank\">once in March at Carnegie Hall<\/a>, and once in April at New York City Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/084RPuh9R3\/?taken-by=wendybrandes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bjorkticket1.jpg\" alt=\"bjorkticket\" width=\"498\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bjorkticket1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bjorkticket1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bjorkticket1-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bjork had a no-photo-taking policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/on-the-town-seth-macfarlane-common-slaughterhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seth MacFarlane annoyed me with that<\/a> at the Highline Ballroom in 2012, but with Bjork&#8217;s venues, it made more sense. I&#8217;ve gone to a lot of performances at Carnegie Hall and New York City Center during which it&#8217;s a given that photography is banned (though I have absolutely no regrets about sneaking video of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/musical-interlude-neil-young-at-carnegie-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Young performing &#8220;Ohio&#8221; at Carnegie Hall last year<\/a>). Still, I wish I could have photographed Bjork, especially because I was fascinated by the big round headpiece that made her look like dandelion fluff. A lot of people these days clutch their pearls and complain about concertgoers not being in the moment at shows due to photography, which apparently was Bjork&#8217;s concern. I can&#8217;t speak for anyone else, but I feel perfectly fine about the amount of time I take photos and videos compared with the amount of time (plenty!) that I give the camera a rest. I don&#8217;t feel less connected to the performance and, in fact, the photos later help me re-experience the emotional impact of the show. Memory alone doesn&#8217;t do it justice, but when you have a visual prompt for what happened during a specific song, you&#8217;re right back there again.<\/p>\n<p>In between Bjork shows (and after <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/musical-interlude-ariana-grande-and-her-cat-ears\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>), Jessie and I went to see Marina and the Diamonds at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rough Trade in Brooklyn<\/a>. It was a blink-and-you-missed-it three-song performance ahead of a meet-and-greet with fans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/marina2resize.jpg\" alt=\"marina2resize\" width=\"498\" height=\"747\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/marina2resize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/marina2resize-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/marina2resize-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to be surrounded for a couple of hours by a horde of teenage girls, many of whom gave stuffed unicorns and other toys to Marina before bursting into tears of excitement. They all had their cute teen fashions on too &#8230; now I&#8217;m kicking myself for not taking photos of the fans! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My concert-going friend Jessie and I have been busy lately, with the highlight being Wednesday&#8217;s Paramore show at the Beacon Theatre. Thanks to StubHub, I got second-row center seats &#8230; and thanks to Eminem and Rihanna, I had Jessie to go with. I met Jessie when I was waiting in line for Em and Rih&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/musical-interlude-paramore-bjork-and-marina\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-concerts","category-music","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29253,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241\/revisions\/29253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}