2000 Great Songs #1255: Caught In The Middle
Paramore are one of those modern pop bands my son was listening to at some point and I was like, ok, I guess I'm just too old, I'm not hearing it. (See also Muse, The 1975 [maybe one song aside], The Strokes [I mean, ok, I get it, just don't really care for it], The Killers [ditto].) But somehow "Caught In The Middle," off 2017's After Laughter , snuck onto my radar screen and I kinda like it. Really catchy chorus, and they stuck a bit of a Cure riff into the second verse. But mostly it's watching live clips of the song on YouTube and, embarrassingly, crushing on Haley Williams a little. She seems cool, good dancer, turns a decent song into a huge crowd-pleaser. Gotta respect that, even at my age. Live 2023: Live in the studio:
