18-year-old Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams – think of her as the emo Avril Lavigne – doesn’t like it when the media singles her out for attention. After Kerrang! magazine put her alone on their cover the church-going teetotaller took to the stage in a T-shirt with “Paramore is a BAND!” scrawled stroppily across the front.
She’ll have to get used to it, though. Armed with a steel-capped vocal howl and a neat way with an angst-ridden lyric, Williams is not only by far the most interesting thing about Paramore, she’s increasingly a hero to a generation of misunderstood teenage girls.
Paramore aren’t emo royalty yet: their second album Riot, released earlier this year, has sold 500,000 copies in America: respectable but not huge. But the Franklin, Tennessee band are clearly on an upward curve, and anthems such as Misery Business demonstrate why: slick, punchy and easy to swallow, it’s spring-loaded pop-punk at its most ruthlessly efficient.
11:21 AM | 28/09/2007
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are you serious? they're gash. it feels like 2001 again.
Posted by huniuk at 8:43 PM | 28/09/2007 | Report Abuse
why is the fact she is a church-going teetotaller relevant to your description?? Is it not allowed?
Posted by mamboandrew at 1:40 PM | 03/10/2007 | Report Abuse
Paramore is awesome - Q needs more bands like Paramore!
Posted by James at 4:48 PM | 26/08/2009 | Report Abuse
Paramore is awesome - Q needs more bands like Paramore!
Posted by James at 4:49 PM | 26/08/2009 | Report Abuse
omg shes not any version of avril lavigne!!
>:(
Posted by Kelly at 9:46 PM | 20/09/2009 | Report Abuse
Hayley is way better btw hehe
Posted by Kelly at 9:48 PM | 20/09/2009 | Report Abuse
Hayley is way better btw hehe
Posted by Kelly at 9:48 PM | 20/09/2009 | Report Abuse
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