Paramore Writes Music For Vampires

I haven't read the Twilight books. I have no interest in them. My running joke is that if you shuffled together pages from a Dawson's Creek screenplay and pages from a Buffy the Vampire Slayer screenplay, you'd wind up with something close to Twilight. I find vindication in the fact that I told that to two of my friends who have read the books and they said I was more or less accurate. But regardless, Hollywood saw fit to adapt the series to film, complete with teen-girl-friendly soundtrack. Earlier this week the first track from said soundtrack, Paramore's "Decode" found its way to the public.

I want to like this song. I really, really do. I love Paramore and after being in love with Riot! I want to see where the band goes next. But "Decode" has something missing. The mood sets the song back to the band's debut All We Know is Falling. The lyrics aren't too bad, mostly basic Paramore. But something about the marriage of the two comes off as something written by Amy Lee. It's not a terrible track be any means, and perhaps with a few more listens I'll warm up to it more (I'm on listen #3 now and it's already growing), but "Decode" doesn't have the immediate draw that anything on Riot! did. The band is said to be doing at least two songs for the Twilight soundtrack, so perhaps this isn't even meant to be the single.

Paramore - Decode

And no, two Paramore songs is not enough to make me purchase anything with Twilight's logo on it.