Sophie Walker from The Line of Best Fit met with Paramore to talk new album, their own history, embracing the simple joys of making music together again.
“Zac was really great about helping us not resist where we naturally wanted to go. Having that time off, I think we were all able to detach from feeling like a business entity,” said Taylor answering a question about a break Paramore took after After Laughter. “We weren’t gonna be like, ‘Alright, we’re gonna take a whole year off and then, at the stroke of midnight, we’ll be back’”, Hayley added. “We never called it a hiatus, or anything that was like, ‘Will they? Won’t they?’. We always knew we would come back.”
“Being at home, we really got to dig in and feel part of our community,” said Williams. “We’re affected by politics in a completely different way because our privilege and position, but we realised that we’re just as much responsible for the state of the future as anybody else. We have an opportunity to take that energy and do something good with it – that’s the power of the band. Someone is listening.”
“I think it’s a process of maybe not forgiving yourself but expressing your vulnerability. I think that’s a huge thing with any issue with your mental wellness, to first examine it and then admit it. I think Hayley did a lot of self-reflection on this record, and I think that’s a huge step forward step forward in showing that there’s no shame in admitting things or processing things outwardly”, Zac said.
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