Taylor and I kept bugging Josh to write a feel-good, fast-paced song. You know the kind of song that makes you roll your windows down and sing really loud even in dead-stop traffic (for those of you in L.A.)? I drove over to Josh’s one day. It was starting to get warmer outside and the sky was so clear. I didn’t get out much during this time, so it was an exceptionally good day for me. When I got there, he handed me a demo and I took off with it. While I was driving away, the sun was in my rearview mirror. I rolled my windows down. Then I realized we had that song! All the lyrics are pretty self explanatory. By the end of the writing process for brand new eyes, we were in such a different place than we’d started. I felt lucky that we’d made it through our differences and the last year. And I thought how dumb we would’ve been to give up on everything we built. This is my favourite song on the record because it’s the most honest that I could’ve been about how proud I am of Paramore.

-Hayley Williams on “Looking Up” in a Track by Track description of ‘brand new eyes’ for Alternative Press.