We’ve wanted to write songs like this for so long, but weren’t there emotionally. We tell some of the story about what happened in the interludes on the album, but the songs overall are about looking forward and finding your place in the world.” Adds Davis: “It’s a lot happier and brighter album than people might expect given what’s happened. “I’m really proud of the fact that this is not an angry Paramore album,” Williams says. Given the choice of packing it in or reinventing themselves as a trio, Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and bassist Jeremy Davis chose the latter and made a positive, uplifting album that reflects who they are in the present. Lead-off single “Now” - with lyrics like “if there’s a future, we want it now” - sets the urgent tone of Paramore, the Franklin, Tennessee-bred band’s fourth and first full-length album since the departure of two of its founding members (and one of its principle songwriters) at the end of 2010. They’re about needing to find whatever’s next.” “A lot of the new songs came out of that. ![]() ![]() ![]() He doesn’t know what it is, but it’s going to be great,” she says with a laugh. “I had this kind of Tony-in- West-Side-Story-moment when he sings about how something is coming. When Hayley Williams began writing lyrics for the songs that appear on Paramore’s self-titled new album, she found herself feeling more optimistic than ever before about the future of the band she has fronted since she was 15.
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