Who is paradise fears

And with all of those dueling and conflicting and colliding pressures…we kind of tried to shed the rest of those pressures and just keep a laser sharp focus on being true to emotional experience, because we figure as long as the songs matter to us, as long as they are true to our emotional experience, then the rest of it will work itself out and hopefully it will resonate with people. Not unlike the scenic state in which the band formed, the songs that appear on Life In Real Time are sonic landscapes that often take your breath away due to the sheer majesty of the music and the complexity of composition.

I found those on your website, in the blog section. Yeah, that definitely sounds like exactly the kind of thing I would write. What role does spirituality play in your life and music? My dad is a pastor, so I sort of was like right from the get-go indoctrinated with not just the sort of formal tenets of Christian spirituality, which would be this is what God is, this is what Jesus is, this is what the Bible says. But the parts that were considerably more memorable for me, which were the more implicit elements of spirituality like the communities that form around churches and the way that people are deriving meaning from experience in their lives based on the teachings of Christianity.

To those later more implicit themes of spirituality, I think it plays an amazingly large role because I think with a broad enough definition — which is the definition that I choose to use — spirituality kind of is everything that we do. Every decision that we make, all of the things that are important in our lives, are the result of spirituality. And not only every song we write but also every time we perform those songs, every time we go into the studio to record those songs, there is God moving in all of that.

Laughs No problem, no problem. I think that was kind of like a necessary duality; we wanted to introduce people to what the range of the album was going to be immediately.

There you go. Of course. It would be a little bit difficult to expound without first touching on the general writing of the track. It was written from a more character perspective. I wanted to write from the recapturing of youth that I see in a lot of…young adult literature. I felt like I was writing as the main character in one of these idealistic young adult novels. You only get the happy if you know the miserable. You can only understand excitement in relation to nervousness.

Things in the world — in particular emotions — only exist relative to their opposites. That was sort of the idea of kind of the entire album. Did you have the proverbial big bang moment?

Laughs No, it was just a series of stupid ideas. We had started making music in high school; very, very hobby driven, very much because we all listened to and enjoyed the same kind of music at the same small town high school.

So that small town needs its talent show performers. And then really the sort of crystalizing focal point for us, or the point of decision, was do we go to college or do we go try to be musicians. Somewhere within the course of just a couple of days, we all collectively decided to abandon those futures for the much sillier idea of being in a band, and then it evolved into what Paradise Fears is now.

Oh man, we used to do all of the best early emo hits. You mentioned that you guys come from a tiny town in South Dakota, Vermillion, population about 10, and change. It was decided for us. A lot of bands we meet from other cities got to look up to other bands that had taken the career path that they had wanted, and we had no idea how to do any of that.

It could have gone much, much, much worse. Yeah, exactly, there was none of that. Laughs Yeah, right. I think that modern internet truth culture encourages people to find their beliefs and hold steady to their beliefs, and they view people doubting those beliefs as an attack on the things they think or believe.

But as we were talking about in terms of the duality of emotional experience, you can only know something because you know its opposite is not true. Whereas it should be an invitation for a discussion that can allow people to move closer to truth.

Oh every day. Still every day laughs. So I guess the opposite of dealing with doubt is to believe. A lot of the album lyrics kind of ends up winding back around to internet self-obsession culture, I guess I would call it.

And instead, the only people — certainly to like the children of the internet — that feel worthwhile to them, the only really heroes they have, the only people that they really believe in or believe to be true is the one, singular, real, palpable immediate voice in their head, which is themselves.

I probably am a part of that as well. I try not to worship celebrity or characters on television, or anything like that. Ultimately, a lot of my beliefs come from the dueling voices of belief and doubt in my head.

I wanted to ask you about one more specific song on the album and then a couple more questions before we wrap. Just before we got on the phone I received the download for the new Adele record…. Relationships are a tricky thing. But yes, her record is phenomenal. No question. Paradise Fears is a alternative rock band from Vermillion, South Dakota. Those who attend will be offered free coffee and treats, to create a warm coffee shop atmosphere.

This band checked off everything we were looking for to book a smaller concert. Brandi Barno, the executive vice president of Spotlight Productions, said during the winter of , Spotlight Productions scheduled a similar coffeehouse style concert during a winter storm, but the concert was a success despite the snow day blunder.

Everything went really well. Every year, Spotlight Productions features a spring concert for students to attend. The featured artist for this year are yet to be announced. In , the headline was Hoodie Allen, along with Lion Babe. Shankin said the spring concert and LakerFest will wrap-up a semester filled with plenty of entertainment.

LakerFest is a celebration of the last day of classes before finals week, which provides students with free food and fun activities. Shankin said producing smaller shows allows them to schedule more outside acts other than the traditional annual events. Students can ask questions through all accounts, and expect big event announcements throughout the rest of the semester.

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