“There’s a lot more aggression than we’ve had in a while.”
But they’re unapologetically trying something new instead with the raw, political, and ultimately cathartic songs.
“We are not usually a band to go backwards, ever,” Williams tells EW.
Hayley Williams, Zac Farro, and Taylor York of Paramore.Atlantic Records
“We like to be careful about getting stuck in the past.”
“The album explores more than just the surface level of that tension,” Williams says.
The album reflects something of what all of us are experiencing currently and the anxiety of it.
Paramore at the 2022 When We Were Young Festival.Ben Trivett
“But that’s just where we’re at.
“The world shutting down gosh, we’ve learned a lot and we all went through a lot.
That’s why this record, there’s a lot more aggression than we’ve had in a while.
At a certain point, you get tired of the pendulum swinging from extreme to extreme.
It was like, let’s get to know ourselves away from Paramore.
Being isolated was really tough, but I learned a lot about myself.”
“We all got healthy doses of all those big and small life lessons from that.”
“It was such a cool way to start the album writing process,” Williams says.
It’s just some really melodic but still heavy hitting moments and rock music that we love.”
It wasn’t anything other than that."
And they’re not planning on getting bored with Paramore anytime soon.
Adds Farro, “We’ll probably always make music whether people listen to it or not.”
“We’re on the ride.
We don’t really genuinely get to decide what happens with our career it’s the fans.”
Ultimately, they hope the fans are ready for this new era of Paramore.
Because why not?"
This is why, indeed.
