Billboard had said, "this song's the sequel to "Let the Flames Begin" from their " Riot" album, opening with the same "What a shame" line. Billboard, Idolator, PopMatters, Spin, Pop-Dust, and MTV Buzzworthy all had reviewed, or at least gave a positive message to the song. Part II has had mostly positive reviews from many different websites. … that song doesn’t need that sort of following in order to connect." - Hayley Williams Audio That song will never be on a radio station. "There’s still other songs that I think that would never be on the radio that get, it’s a different kind of response. The song kind of stands for that." - Jeremy Davis That was hard, actually - to write very Paramore sounding songs, when everything had changed. We wanted them to have something they were used to, too. "What we also tried to do was cater to some of the songs from our old record, because we don’t want to exclude any of our old fans. So we were like, maybe we can do something like that." - Taylor York It’s always a special thing for us as fans. Actually, real talk, me and Hayley’s favorite band in the world mewithoutYou, which is on this cruise, we worship everything they do, they always kind of write Part IIs to their songs, and as mega-fans it’s always like OHHHH it’s so cool. We didn’t go into the record thinking we need to make a sequel to this. And some of the lyrics kind of mirrored, kind of alluded to Let the Flames Begin. And I think, when Hayley started writing to it, that theme just kind of came out. "I don’t think that it was an intentional thing to write a sequel to Let The Flames Begin, but I started writing music to a song and it just had a really similar feeling, a similar emotional connection. In the Monster outro, the lines "so if you let me, I will look and try" are put instead of the line "so if you let me, I will catch fire" in Part II. The ending hook is very similar to the Monster outro first sung by Williams' during a live performance in 2012. The lines "I'll be lost until" are sung, where the ending hook is given. After another verse by Williams', a long instrumental starts (where the drums first start). The next verse has a very similar bass tune towards the first part of the song, as the bass collides with the guitar sounds. Then the sound and the voice of Williams' starts to raise as the "dancing all alone" verse starts. After the first lyrical part, the drums start to kick in as Williams' sings "oh glory, come and find me" for the second time. Other words similar are "oh glory" and "such fragile broken things". showing that this is the continuation of Let the Flames Begin. The lyrics then kick off to a wording that is very similar to Let the Flames Begin using words such as "what a shame" and "we all remain" instead of "we all became". There is a beginning guitar tune from York, as it slowly continues with Jeremy Davis playing his bass.
The song starts off with an instrumental tune, which is similar to the ending sound of the song, though it does not feature any drum beats yet. The third instrumental song of the album would be 'Grow Up'. Part II is the second most instrumental song, before ' Future' which was mainly instrumental on its own. Part II is currently available on iTunes, though had never received an award alone- most likely due to the fact it is not a single. On April 16 (a week after the self-titled album was released), a audio of the song was released on YouTube, along with the other 16 tracks from the same album. Below, check out the video and the After Laughter tracklist.The song, though being the 'second part' of another song, is not a single. Director Andrew Joffe’s video is plenty ’80s, as well, showing the same sort of colorful giddiness that was once the hallmark of early-MTV videos. Frontwoman Hayley Williams gets a chance to show a ton of personality, and there’s a big, sticky hook right at the middle of it. Instead, it’s got all the lush, stiff funkiness of prime ’80s new wave. “Hard Times” sounds nothing like the music that Paramore were making a decade ago. And the band has also unveiled a video for “Hard Times,” the deliciously ’80s opening track. Paramore’s Taylor York co-produced it with Justin Medal-Johnson, who also worked on Paramore’s 2013 self-titled album. It’s the first album they’ve recorded in their Nashville hometown and their first since the return of founding drummer Zac Farro.
The emo-pop greats will release After Laughter, their first album in more than four years, next month. They’ve been teasing a new album lately, and now Paramore are officially back.
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