Pressure

Album: All We Know Is Falling (2005)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about the pressure of being a teenager. The video, directed by Shane Drake ("Misery Business," "Emergency"), deals with a young couple who dislike their jobs. The boy works at a fast food restaurant where he receives poor treatment. The girl is a model who is refused things that she enjoys (picking her own dress, eating chocolate, etc.). Eventually the boy quits his job and goes to meet his girlfriend, but she is busy preparing for a photo shoot. The boy decides to set off the sprinklers in the building. Everyone in the building rushes out, except for the girl, who stays in her chair enjoying the water. The boy and girl manage to get out and the video ends. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    francheska - Brooklyn, NY

Comments: 9

  • Kayla from Massachusetts Can anyone tell me the name of the fast food restaurant this music video was filmed?
  • Megan from Stevenson, AlGreat song! Love it!
  • Joanna from Scotland, United KingdomYes, K, this song is used on Sims 2, they just remixed it to make it sound like Sim language.
  • K from Nowhere, OnI'm 99% sure this is used in The Sims 2. I've seen my brother playing it on the GameCube and I swear it's there. :S Help?
  • Niko from Petteyville, Nythis song is great probably my favorite song by Paramore. the message simply is pressure, in anything really, work, school, relationships and so on
  • Hope from Naperville, Ilgood song. its about pressure in general. im listening to it on repeat right now cuz i think its also about 2 ppl who want to be together but no one wants to see them together and its making them fall apart. they're saying 'we dont need u' to outside pressure to break up. my life now, pretty much.
  • Rebekah from Davis, CaThis tune is great... hurrah for sprinklers.
  • Laura from London, EnglandDude...go find your sprinker switch and PRESS IT!!!!

    Go oooon be rock and roll!! :-D
  • Emma from San Deigo, Cai like this song and vidoe and i think it would be so awesome if sprinklers went off at school or somewhere fun like that were you would expect it!::Dhaha
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