Still Into You

Album

Summer in the Winter

Label

Fueled by Ramen

Genre

Power Pop

Composer(s)

Hayley Williams;Taylor York

Entered Chart

Apr 27, 2013

Peak Date

Nov 9, 2013

Released

March 14, 2013

Recorded

2012

Catalog #

Fueled By Ramen Digital

This was released as the second single from Paramore's self-titled album. The band performed the song live for the first time on March 13, 2013 at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. The song finds Williams opening up about her relationship with boyfriend Chad Gilbert. We hear her recounting the first night she met the New Found Glory guitarist's mother, before adding, "and on the drive back to my house. I told you that I loved ya." Williams told Spin magazine; "'Still Into You' is definitely a love song. It's definitely happy. But to me anyway - and obviously I wrote it so maybe I'm biased, but - it's not a sappy love song. We wrote 'The Only Exception' a while ago, and that song is definitely like a slow love ballad, and this is totally not that song. I'm excited for that! We've never done that before, and honestly I don't have a whole lot of experience writing love songs, or anyways lyrics that are like this." Paramore received a lot of treatments for the video, which focused literally on the song's lyrics about Hayley Williams' relationship with Chad Gilbert. However the concept that director Isaac Rentz (Tegan and Sara's "Closer," blink-182's "After Midnight") came up with was a welcome change. Guitarist Taylor York told MTV News: "A lot of people would hear the song and assume it would be about the story of people still being in love, but what was so appealing about Isaac's treatment is that he wanted to capture what love feels like. So a lot of it is us trying to embody that, just having a blast. Riding bikes indoors, swimming in a sea of balloons, trying to create that magical feeling, visually. He had so many ideas, and it definitely jumped out at us." Hayley Williams told MTV News this is the kind of tune that she never thought she'd write. "I'm not one to write a lot of love songs, so it surprised me," she laughed. "And we got to the chorus, I remember asking Taylor [York] 'Is this too poppy? Can I do this? Can I sing it like this?' And I remember Taylor saying 'Well, do you like it?' And I was like 'I love it!' And he said 'Well, then who cares? Do it anyway!' "That's sort of a testament to how the entire writing and recording process went, if we liked something and we believed in it, we did it," she continued. "We didn't back down from it just because it was different or something we hadn't tried before." The song's use of synthesizers surprised some the band's fans, used to Paramore's guitar-orientated rock sound. York explained to MTV News it served as an introduction to the wide range of styles and sonics the trio explored on Paramore. "'Still Into You, came from our old way of doing things not working anymore; it came out of frustration," said York. "We'd be frustrated, and then we would just randomly play something on an instrument and it would spark something. 'Still Into You' started [with] an organ part, and somehow it turned into this pop song. It took a cool shape that is different for us, I don't think you can be too worried that it's different, because this is what we believe in, and we're excited about it."

Can't count the years on one hand that we've been together
I need the other one to hold you, make you feel, make you feel better
It's not a walk in the park to love each other
But when our fingers interlock, can't deny, can't deny, you're worth it

'Cause after all this time
I'm still into you

I should be over all the butterflies
But I'm into you (I'm into you)
And baby, even on our worst nights
I'm into you (I'm into you)
Let 'em wonder how we got this far
'Cause I don't really need to wonder at all
Yeah, after all this time
I'm still into you

Recount the night that I first met your mother
And on the drive back to my house I told you that, I told you that I loved ya
You felt the weight of the world fall off your shoulder
And to your favorite song, we sang along, to the start of forever

And after all this time
I'm still into you

I should be over all the butterflies
But I'm into you (I'm into you)
And baby, even on our worst nights
I'm into you (I'm into you)
Let 'em wonder how we got this far
'Cause I don't really need to wonder at all
Yeah, after all this time
I'm still into you

Some things just, some things just make sense
And one of those is you and I
Some things just, some things just make sense
And even after all this time

I'm into you
Baby, not a day goes by that I'm not into you

I should be over all the butterflies
But I'm into you (I'm into you)
And baby, even on our worst nights
I'm into you (I'm into you)
Let 'em wonder how we got this far
'Cause I don't really need to wonder at all
Yeah, after all this time
I'm still into you

I'm still into you
I'm still into you