Paramore Cover At The Drive In, Confuse 14 Year Olds

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Matthew

Ok, I know, this is too easy folks but I just couldn’t resist. Mainstream darlings Paramore are covering the second half of At The Drive In’s “One Armed Scissor” at their concerts in arenas across America, in front of many confused young adults. If this is not the ultimate “what the fuck?” moment, I don’t know what is. I’ll let you compare and contrast though, so you can be the judge. The cover and the real thing; an infamous performance from At The Drive In on Letterman of said song around the release of Relationship Of Command. I mean, I gotta hand it to Paramore though, they could be covering far worse material. Follow the jump for both videos.Paramore’s cover of “One Armed Scissor.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mc5cfXtlyU

At The Drive In’s performance of “One Armed Scissor” on David Letterman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEYU9_hAlo

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11 Comments »

Comment by Eric Grubbs

2007-09-28 13:15:47

I recommend checking out ATDI’s performance of “One-Armed Scissor” on ‘Later . . . with Jools Holland’ as well. It’s part train-wreck, part performance.

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Comment by Jason

2007-09-30 22:28:25

Her voice is awful

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Comment by Fortune

2007-10-01 20:08:45

i don’t think her voice is awful. i just think it’s a bad “cover” of a good song. what makes the song awesome is Cedric’s frantic delivery. this version almost changes the intention.

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Comment by Elmo

2008-02-09 12:45:27

I think it’s wicked. You guys are just old.

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Comment by Sadie

2008-05-27 15:56:18

I disagree. I’m not even fifteen yet, and I really disliked the cover. Also, the changing of the lyrics. Paramore changed the meaning of that part, which they shouldn’t have done to such an amazing song, even if the original doesn’t fit their image.

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Comment by Alice

2008-04-17 16:11:42

These guys are amazing. They are my favorite band. You guys just have no taste.

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Comment by likeaharmonica

2008-05-27 16:04:06

Yes, because when a young Christian band does a cover of a song by mid-twenties heroin addicts (where the song is reportedly about said addiction) and say that it doesn’t seem right, they have no taste in music. Definately how that works.

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Comment by Loco

2008-06-06 18:47:38

Geez….. is that “At the drive in” noise what kids think is “artsy” music these days? What a waste of time.

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Comment by ESKRocks.com

2008-06-30 14:36:07

At the Drive-In is probably one of the most unnoticed great bands of all time. It is nice to see some current hit bands actually reconize that, even if they change it up a bit. And it is not “noise”. At the Drive-In made great music. Go pick up a copy of in.casino.out and see what they really have to offer…

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Comment by R Williams

2008-08-02 08:35:52

at least the lyrics can somehow be linked to said heroin addiction.i’ve heard that paramore is a christian band but how is anyone to know this if there lyrics have no apparent connection to God.There’s a difference between being a christian band and just so happening to be christians in a band

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Comment by publicity

2008-08-23 11:37:59

Thats not a cover of the song, its the end of the live presententations of “here we go again”. The lyrics are from the song of atdi, and paramore used them cause they liked that words, they kinda admire them but they arent making a cover

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