“C’est Comme Ça” by Paramore, Friday, February 3, 2023
Next Friday, we'll see the return of Paramore after a five-year hiatus. Following the release of 2017's After Laughter and the promotional tours, the band decided to take an indefinite break. Next week the band will release This Is Why, which seems like a return to form for the band that got their start in pop-punk and emo. In the the six years between After Laughter and This Is Why, pop-punk made a comeback; Paramore's former guitarist Josh Farro and lead singer received writing credits on Olivia Rodrigo’s mega-hit “good 4 u” in 2021 for a controversial interpolation.
I'M OFF CAFFEINE ON DOCTOR'S ORDERS. On Paramore's 2017 After Laughter lead singer Haley Williams begins to process her divorce from New Found Glory's guitarist Chad Gilbert. After touring and promoting After Laughter, Paramore took an indefinite hiatus. Williams started writing music which eventually became 2020's Petals for Armor, an album in which she analyzes her divorce in a less filtered, more explicit way than she ever expressed on a Paramore song. However, Williams' solo project was not Paramore, and fans anxiously awaited an announcement on whether the band would call it quits or would return with new music. In January of 2022, Paramore was announced as the co-headliner for the When We Were Young festival, a packed lineup of mostly "elder emo" acts popular fifteen to twenty years ago. And unlike some of the reunited acts for festivals, Paramore's reunion wasn't completely set in the past. In late September of last year, Paramore released the lead single from an upcoming album, the eponymous track "This Is Why." The single was accompanied by a video featuring the band performing in a trailer in the desert. The song was a departure from the '80s synth sounds of After Laughter, instead involving a disco-sounding chorus and '70s guitar jamming.
I STILL NEED A CERTAIN DEGREE OF DISORDER. "C'est Comme Ça" is the third single from This Is Why and features a spoken-word verse from Haley Williams. The song roughly translates from French as "it is what it is," and comes from a longer phrase "C'est comme ça et pas autrement," meaning there's nothing we can do about a bad situation. The song deals with the PTSD Williams and the world as a whole have dealt with throughout and after the pandemic. The song specifically addresses Williams' mental health as not only she dealt with a pandemic but also finalizing the process of her divorce. When the band talked to Zane Lowe about the song, Williams talked about adjusting to life in her 30s, saying that she prefers to be in bed by 8 with a cup of tea, which is something she never had imagined for her life. And yet, "C'est Comme Ça" embraces Williams' addiction to disorder. It's how she thrives and possibly the spark that keeps the modern-day Fleetwood Mac together. The disorder this time might just have to be Williams dating longtime guitarist Taylor York. But it may turn out to be functional. What will be will be.
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