Paramore

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A new crowd pleaser has made it to the Paramore set list. The band live debuted their single “Thick Skull” at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday night. The audience waved their hands in the air as frontwoman Hayley Williams prompted, “Come on out with your hands up.”  The song is the emotional closer of their latest LP, This Is Why. Paramore performed the song halfway through their Nov. 19 set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saCHcvLhboo This Is Why is Paramore’s sixth studio album, and…

Singers reunite onstage after performing together at 2022 Coachella Paramore’s North American tour continues to dole out surprises on a nightly basis as Billie Eilish joined the band in Los Angeles for “All I Wanted.” During the encore at the Kia Forum, Hayley Williams and company launched into the Brand New Eyes track, with Eilish hopping onstage to the delight of the stunned crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O88gxli0pGw Williams and Eilish previously sang together…

Taylor Swift is lengthening her Eras Tour. The music star took to Instagram on Wednesday to announce that 14 new dates have been added to her tour lineup, with Paramore joining as the opening act for the tour’s European shows. The dates extend nights in cities that were already on the schedule for May through next August with additional shows now including ones in Sweden, Portugal, Dublin, Amsterdam and more. “Really can’t contain my excitement because … we’re adding 14 new shows to The Eras…

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On the final night of their UK tour, Paramore singer Hayley Williams playfully asks for a show of hands: those who have never been to a Paramore show before. Half the venue, it seems, raise theirs. Even Williams looks taken aback.She shouldn’t be surprised. The US band’s last appearance here was five years ago; against the odds, a new generation of Paramore fans has come on stream. This has been the much-maligned 00s pop-punk pioneers’ fastest-selling tour ever. Their most recent album, the serrated, punk-funk-tinged This…

‘How did time go by so quickly?” Hayley Williams asks, one foot atop a monitor, her eyes seeking those in the front row. The question forms the backbone of Paramore’s first UK show in five years, which is a fizzing spectacle of angst and charisma that reveals a band in a unique position to answer it.Dressed in a short black suit that is half Twiggy, half Angus Young, with purple mascara tears bleeding from her right eye, Williams high-kicks her way through a set that pairs teenage insecurities from decades-old pop-punk…

In 2007, Paramore released their breakthrough hit, Misery Business. It’s a song the band have a complicated relationship with. A few years ago, singer Hayley Williams began offering caveats about it – “I haven’t related to it in a very long time”, “I wrote it … because I was a dick”, “let’s celebrate that we’ve all done a lot of growing up since then” – then, for a period, declined to perform it at all. She made an exception for a guest appearance at Coachella with Billie Eilish, and Paramore returned the song to their…

The singer and songwriter Hayley Williams was born in Mississippi in 1988. She signed her first music deal aged 14, shortly after moving to Tennessee, and went on to form the pop-punk band Paramore. The band have released five albums with Williams as lead vocalist and keyboard player, beginning in 2005 with All We Know Is Falling. In 2015, they won a Grammy for the song Ain’t It Fun. Williams, who now lives in Nashville, also performs solo and has released two albums since 2020. Paramore’s latest album, This Is Why, is…

Paramore singer Hayley Williams abruptly stopped a concert this week in Canada to break up a fight in the crowd.In footage from the event shared by Twitter user @fakeplasticbee, the lead vocalist halts the band’s performance of “Caught in the Middle” to assess a situation unfolding Monday on the floor of History, a venue in Toronto.“Stop! You good? Everybody OK?” she says, approaching the edge of the stage. “We got a fight? Oh, man. What do you guys think this is? A Terror show? We’re not a hardcore band, bro. We’re gonna…