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Metro
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Iconic emo band spark breakup rumours on 20th anniversary
It's been 20 years since Paramore released their debut album All We Know Is Falling but instead of celebrating, fans have gone into meltdown. The 00s emo icons released a deluxe version of their album with four new tracks to mark the occasion before chaos hit the fandom. Speculation that the band is splitting up exploded after frontwoman Hayley Williams, 36, dropped 17 new solo songs without any warning. Days after the Paramore release, the tracks appeared on the Simmer singer's website, which could only be accessed via a code sent by her hair dye company. As fans eagerly sank their teeth into Hayley's new music, fears that she had split with bandmate Taylor York, 35, began to grow. Tracks like 'Disappearing Man' and 'Love Me Different' appeared to hint at a breakup, and, of course, fans jumped to the worst conclusion. 'Listening to new Hayley Williams album that's clearly about a breakup with Taylor York,' wrote @goodlarkcharm on X. Ellimac_ added: 'Hayley Williams just released 17 songs about breaking up Taylor York. Hopefully unrelated, she also is selling a shirt that says 'HW is my favorite band'. Please say sike. I cannot handle another Paramore breakup rn.' 'So we've got Paramore disbandment allegations, Taylor and Hayley have broken up allegations…WELCOME TO HAYLEY WILLIAMS' THIRD SOLO ALBUM i guess…' said decodethemonstr. Chall3ngers shared a gif of Family Guy's Peter Griffin driving off a cliff with the caption: 'Streets are saying Hayley Williams and Taylor York brokeup.' Neither Hayley nor the notoriously private Taylor, who have been together for almost a decade, has said anything about their relationship to prompt this panic. its so over — al (@alvvxia) July 28, 2025 if hayley williams and taylor york really did break up then it might just truly be the end of paramore this time LOL — ﷽ (@fr4ilbugs) July 28, 2025 The Misery Business singer was previously married to Chad Gilbert, before their split in 2017, so some are pointing to this relationship as inspiration. However, on one track, Hayley sings: 'Friends to lovers choking true/ You said it, I deserve someone who knows what I am worth/ Now I wonder what am I worth to you?' Since Hayley and Taylor were friends for years before making it official, fans have taken this lyric to be about their relationship. Elsewhere, she sings: 'The long walk between the car and the house/I just sit behind the wheel 'til the battery runs out/ Home is where we rule out, used to sing down the hall/ to your signature sound. 'Now it's just so quiet, I hate this gorgeous house/ Can't hear my heart beat over emptiness now'. While fans point to her relationship with Taylor here, the track itself is titled 'Negative Self Talk', which fits with other songs that explore her own mental health — with one explicitly named after an antidepressant, mirtazapine. Not everyone was spiralling online, with plenty of long-term fans poking fun at the instant doomsday response. TaekyoghouI joked: 'Hayley Williams, you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your lyrics are so great that everyone starts believing Paramore broke up.' Afterlauqhter added: 'Seeing longtime Paramore fans immediately jumping to doomerism when we've had these songs for precisely one hour and have likely only listened to each one Once and don't even know the context for the timeline any of them what is up with you guys? Just enjoy the music for now.' This is not the first time Hayley has released solo music, having dropped two EPs then full albums Petals for Armor and Flowers for Vases / Descansos in 2020 and 2021, respectively. She's also featured as a solo artist on collaborations like Taylor Swift's Castles Crumbling, a vault track from Speak Now, as well as 2010's iconic Airplanes with B.o.B. Earlier this year, she released I Like It I Like It with Moses Sumney, which came with an official video of the pair posing together for a photoshoot as they sang the track. Paramore's future has been a big question in fans' minds ever since their 20-year contract with Atlantic Records expired following the release of sixth studio album, This Is Why. More Trending Their social media was wiped clean to mark this new era and a fresh slate, again prompting disbandment rumours. After this, the band went on tour with Taylor Swift — a lifelong friend of Hayley's — with loved-up songs from the Paramore frontwoman and guitarist. It's hardly surprising, with a packed tour schedule, label changes, and Hayley (and bandmate Zac Farro) working on solo projects, that the band is yet to announce new music. Metro has reached out to Paramore's reps for comment Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. 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USA Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Paramore's Hayley Williams surprise releases nearly 20 songs: How to listen to new music
Hayley Williams is in the business of keeping fans on their toes. The rock singer and Paramore frontwoman has inconspicuously released an album's worth of music on her website accessible with a code. "Submit the exclusive Good Dye Young 16-digit access code that was sent to your inbox," a pop-up on the website says, prompting fans to enter digits sent to them by Williams' hair product line. "Check your inbox for an email from Good Dye Young. If you don't have an email with a code, maybe ask a friend for theirs," the message mysteriously states. From there, fans can access an old-school desktop layout with MP3 files of Williams' new songs, 17 in total, and click play on an audio player. The website also features a "misc" folder. Its contents include a video of Paramore performing in 2017, some lyrics scrawled in a coloring book, a photo of a "Hayley Williams is my favorite band" T-shirt and an audio clip of a child saying, "I'm sorry that you're going through something hard." Williams, 36, has been churning out a steady stream of musical treats. On July 23, she debuted her new song "Mirtazapine" on Nashville Public Radio WNXP. Days later, Paramore released a deluxe version of its 2005 debut album, "All We Know Is Falling," along with an archival EP from 2006. Hayley Williams interview: Singer talks first solo album 'Petals for Armor' How to listen to Hayley Williams' new songs The access code to Williams' new music is reportedly available to customers who have purchased the Good Dye Young shade "Ego," according to several social media comments responding to the surprise release. Williams' fans have also shared the code on a Reddit page and across various other social media posts. Paramore on Eras Tour: Rock band recreates iconic Freddie Mercury moment in London What are the names of Hayley Williams' new songs? The titles of Williams' new songs are as follows:
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The story of Paramore's debut album and how it forced the pop-punk scene to take a long, hard look at itself
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When Paramore were touring their debut album, fans assumed that the pop-punk upstarts from Tennessee were straight edge because of the 'X' they had written on their hands. The truth was that each band member had been marked by venue staff because they were too young to drink. And so began the career of a band who've been forced to bat off rumours, half-truths and not-at-all-truths ever since, usually cast in the direction of singer and de facto band leader Hayley Williams for having the temerity to be a woman fronting an emo band. These days, Williams is long-established as a totemic figure in alternative-pop and melodic, genre-fluid rock, but she was still finding her feet back in 2005 when Paramore – at that point Williams and guitarist Josh Farro and his drummer brother Zak and bassist Jeremy Davis – released their debut album All We Know Is Falling, which turns 20 this week. The album is not one of their best. In fact, as already covered in Louder's ranking of Paramore records, it's probably their worst. But it remains a notable release both for introducing one of the 21st century's most enduring rock bands and capturing the giddy essence of '00s pop-punk. It's a record that came together in a period when Paramore were still working out what and who they were. Williams had originally been signed to Atlantic Records as a solo artist but fought against the label's plans to turn her into a saccharine pop star, declaring she wanted to form a rock band instead. They'd only been together a matter of months when work on All We Are Is Falling began. It's not exactly an era that Williams looks back on fondly. It didn't take long for the singer to realise what she was up against. Go searching for any interview from the era and there will be a question like the one that opens an interview from long-defunct music and film site The Trades: 'Hayley, is it any more difficult being a girl on the Warped tour?'. At the time, Williams was happy to declare something along the lines of 'No, it's not, everything is great', but looking back years later, she opened up on the rampant misogyny encountered by her 18-year-old self. 'I did not know how toxic that world could be,' she told Vulture a few years ago. 'The pop-punk and emo scene in the early 2000s. It was brutally misogynistic,' she continued. 'A lot of internalised sexism, and even when you were lucky enough to meet other bands who were kind and respectful, there was other shit that wasn't. And I was really feisty. We got offered Warped tour, and there was a caveat: 'It's a stage called the Shiragirl Stage. It's all female.' I was pissed! I wanted to qualify for a real stage. When I've been offered female opportunities, it feels like a backhanded compliment. But people sometimes think that's anti-feminist, that I don't wanna be grouped in with the girls. As a 16-year-old who had dreams of playing with the big boys, it felt like we were being slighted. That summer we went out, and I'll never forget [it]. We played in Florida, and the stage was a truck that had a flatbed on it. It was so flimsy it would shake and fall apart. There might have been one other female in a band [on tour], and people were gawking. I don't think in a pervy way. They were confused, like, 'What's in this for me? What's she singing about? I'm a guy — how do I relate?' Whilst All We Know Is Falling hardly set the world alight at the time of release, the success of its 2007 follow-up Riot!, which went to Number 15 in the US Billboard chart, belatedly shone a light on it. It would eventually be certified Gold in 2014, nine years after its release. By that point, the tumultuous world of Paramore had thrown up more hurdles for Williams to navigate with disgruntled ex-bandmates writing mean-spirited blogs criticising how the band was run and, erm, also saying that some of Williams' lyrics were 'ungodly'. Internal turmoil was never far away from Paramore. But Williams persisted, and there was a feeling of hard-won triumph when she posted a handwritten note ahead of Paramore's headline performance at When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas in 2022. The event described itself as 'an epic line-up of emo and rock bands from the past two decades' and ahead of the show, Williams was in an understandably reflective mood with regards to how hard she'd fought to be accepted in a scene in which Paramore were now at the top table. 'To grow up in this scene was not a simple thing,' Willams wrote on Instagram. 'To be celebrating it (and to be celebrated by it) is not a simple thing. Nothing about this life – for you, me, or anyone – is simple… We fell in love with this subset of post-punk and hardcore likely because nothing else moved us. We didn't fit in other places. To be a young girl in love with this scene was to have the hope that I might find my own way to belong. It took years to find that belonging. It's taken a lot of unlearning. A lot of untangling knots I didn't even know were there. What I did know was that for every 'Take off your top!' or snarky punkzine review… For every dramatic headline pinned on my name, or any season of self-doubt… No one was going to define Paramore but Paramore.' Continuing, she said, 'Nearly 20 years later, we find ourselves a pillar of the very scene that threatened to reject us. And me… Fuck the ones who doubted!' Who knows if Hayley Williams would've kept at it if someone had handed her a list of every of fall-out and controversy coming Paramore's way back in 2005. But as All We Know Is Falling turns 20, she's well within her rights to feel like she won the battle. For that reason alone, it's a debut worth celebrating. Solve the daily Crossword
Perth Now
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Paramore drops new tracks to celebrate All We Know Is Falling's 20th anniversary
Paramore have released four new tracks as part of their deluxe edition of All We Know Is Falling. The Hard Times hitmakers - which consists of singer Hayley Williams, drummer Zac Farro and guitarist Taylor York - released a new version of their debut album to celebrate its 20th anniversary on Friday (25.07.25), and the band have now dropped four additional tracks. The EP contains three new songs from Paramore - O Star, This Circle and an earlier version of Emergency. The album also includes a cover of the Failure song Stuck On You. The tracklist also features Emergency - Crab Mix, a remix featuring intensified screamo-style vocals from Josh Farro, the brother of drummer Zac Farro, who departed the band in 2010. O Star is a slower, more reflective song that captures the band's determination during the early stages of their career in a challenging industry. Meanwhile, This Song reflects on the feeling of being trapped in the same place while convincing yourself that progress has been made. Both tracks were originally featured on their 2006 EP The Summer Tic, which was exclusively sold during that year's Warped Tour. The last of the new songs is a cover of Failure's Stuck On You. Williams previously said that the band was 'one of the top three reasons why Paramore even exists'. York added that the band has 'been one of the most influential on [his] guitar playing'. This comes after Williams debuted her new solo song Mirtazapine, on Nashville public radio station WNXP. The track is the 36-year-old singer's first solo work since 2021's Flowers For Vases / Descansos, and it has also been teased that a B-side, titled Glum, is due to drop at a later date. Before the song's release, Williams teased its theme by sharing a grainy photo of a Mirtazapine bottle on Instagram. On the track, she sings: "Here comes my genie in a screw cap bottle/ To grant me temporary solace. I could never be without her/ I had to write a song about her/ Who am I without you now?/ Mirtazapine, you make me eat, you make me sleep/ Mirtazapine, you let me dream."
