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}} ''Brand New Eyes'' is the third studio album by the American rock band Paramore, released on September 29, 2009 through Fueled by Ramen in the United States and Canada. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo and recorded in Hidden Hills, California from January to March 2009.〔 It was written by band members Hayley Williams and Josh Farro, with guitarist Taylor York who co-wrote on four tracks, as a follow-up to ''Riot!'' (2007). Praised by critics for its songwriting and the band's maturity, the album won Best Album at the Kerrang! Awards 2010,〔 and "The Only Exception" received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Several publications included ''Brand New Eyes'' in their year-end lists. The album produced five singles, "Ignorance", "Brick by Boring Brick", "The Only Exception", "Careful", and "Playing God", all of which have been commercially successful in the United States, and internationally. ''Brand New Eyes'' debuted at number two on ''Billboard'' 200 selling 184,547 copies in its first week, becoming their biggest album on that chart, until their self-titled album debuted at number one in 2013. It topped the charts in many countries across the world including Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom, making it the band's second-highest charting album to date. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on January 19, 2010 for shipments of 500,000 albums.〔 It was certified platinum in the UK for 300,000 shipments and in Ireland for 15,000 shipments. The band promoted the album with the Brand New Eyes World Tour, playing shows in North America, Asia, Europe etc. as well as festival appearances. ''Brand New Eyes'' was the last album recorded by Paramore before Josh and Zac Farro left the band.〔 ==Background, writing and production== After the release of ''Riot!'' and a nonstop year, a blog post that stated they were having "internal issues" in early 2008, coupled with a week of cancelled shows, speculation arose that the band was going to break up.〔 Not long after, it was resolved and claimed to be an issue of the members never having time to talk about things such as how they "were all growing up, and sometimes, when you're growing up, you're not always growing together". Further struggles to write new material had singer Hayley Williams speaking of the doubts she had surrounding the writing of the record and meeting the expectations placed on the band after the success of ''Riot!''.〔 She was also concerned about lyrics that involved current issues, as opposed to resolved issues that she had written about in the past. "I was like, 'This isn't a feel-good song, because I'm writing about something I'm going through right now, and it's still painful,'" she continued. "And I confused that with actually not liking the songs, when actually I was prouder of them than I've ever been before. They're heavier emotions for me... I'm still going through some of this stuff, and these songs are really healing to me." The band as a whole treated the writing as a therapeutic experience, which helped them hash out old differences.〔 Now that "all those words were out on the table", they were able to have their first real conversations in a long time, resolving the internal struggles they had been facing, by going back to the reasons why they started the band and had wanted to play music in the first place.〔〔 Consequently, Paramore decided to name the record ''Brand New Eyes'' because of the allusion to seeing things from a whole new perspective, "Just trying to let go of whatever we might have struggled with the past and just see each other in a new way," explained Williams.〔 The band soon felt that they were onto the right track, and, retrospectively looking back on ''Riot!'', Paramore guitarist, Josh Farro, said "Riot! was a kiddie album, but we had to do that to get to this point."〔 Paramore spent six weeks in pre-production at Emac Studios in their hometown of Franklin, the first time they had undergone pre-production without the guidance of a producer.〔 A visit from record producer Rob Cavallo reassured the band that they were on the right track. "The album totally rocks," Cavallo said, "yet it's also very subtle."〔 The band subsequently felt that the album and that their new material had the potential to surpass the success of their previous work.〔 Although it was originally planned to record the album close to home in Nashville,〔 the band commenced recording in Calabasas, California with Cavallo at the end of March 2009.〔 They then added to the original material written at home with additional tunes written with the help of Cavallo after the move to Calabasas.〔〔 Similar to most rock records, the band mostly tracked the drums first, followed by the rest of the members recording scratch tracks that they later overdubbed. 〔Murphy, Bill. [http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/756580569?accountid=8360 “Rapid-Fire Visionaries”, EQ, New York, N.Y., November 2009.〕Paramore finished production by May 2009,〔 in time for a tour in support of No Doubt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brand New Eyes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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