After surviving a messy split from their long time guitarist and drummer as well as a three year-long hiatus, American pop punk band Paramore is back with a new self-titled album and an upcoming show in KL. JUICE speaks to bassist Jeremy Davis about the band as a trio and their soon to be released record.

Hey Jeremy! First of all, congratulations on your wedding. How has married life been for you?
Thank you. It’s been good, though it’s not all that different. My wife and I have always been best friends, and we’ve supported each other in everything we do. We both still travel and stuff, but it’s been really fun and amazing.

Where was the band’s direction after Brand New Eyes? 
For a while, it has been a difficult period. There was so much negative energy in the band to the point where we wanted to just drop everything. But then the three of us decided that we want to remain as a band, and this won’t break us. From there, we started writing and recording so many songs that we kind of realized that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Continue Reading

Paramore opens a new chapter in its history with a fourth album, self-titled announced for April 9. We met from now on the trio mid-December in Paris for an exclusive interview.
By Jack Vincennes – Photos Manon Violence

It had been a long time since we hadn’t seen you in France! Happy to be back in Paris?

Hayley Williams: Oh yes! I wish we could spend a little more time to enjoy the city, but I’m especially glad to be back with the band, we can continue where we were stopped with.

Taylor York: Paris is one of my favorite places in the world so you can be sure that next time I would try to spend a good time!

H.W: I want so much to go to a bakery there immediately. I would kill for a small pastry laughs). But hey, we got a good room service so we will not complain (laughs).

More than pastries, you’re here to talk about music …

T.Y: Yes .. I still find it hard to realize that we are back. It’s been so long… I mean, we knew we would continue to make music together, whatever happens, but I didn’t think we would be today in front of you trying to defend an album of which we’re so proud, that we would be found faith so quickly. We are happy to start again on a good foundation.

H.W: Sure. It has obviously been a difficult period. We were worried that everything stops. It’s like everything, you wake up sometimes saying everything will be fine, and other days you just want to drop everything. We had a moment so unstable, during which we weren’t able to say clearly what we wanted .. We looked, and we all came to the same conclusion: we all wanted to be in Paramore, keep doing this work. After all what happened, we all had something to out in music. It is from there that we rewrote music and saw the end of the tunnel. And now that the album is finished, we ask ourselves how we did it to doubt even one moment. This is the record that we had to do, that we’ve always dreamed of.
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