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Billboard: Paramore Bringing ‘Larger Than Life Show’ to Self-Titled Tour

September 11, 2013
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The rock act, on its way through Europe, promises “bigger production, bigger stages” for its latest headlining tour — and upcoming concert cruise.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams says the band is ready to hit the big time — or at least the big venues — on the European and North American legs of its Self-Titled Tour.

“We’ve been planning this tour for awhile,” Williams tells Billboard. “We just put a lot of forethought and a lot of elbow grease into this. We want to show the longtime fans how far they’ve brought us, and we want to show all the new fans what they might have missed out on had they not caught on. So bigger production, bigger stages, obviously. We want to be a band that puts on a larger than life show. I’ve sort of rediscovered Freddie Mercury as a 24-year-old; I first fell in love with him as a kid, through ‘Wayne’s World.’ I want to put on a show like that, that people can’t stop talking about, and we’ve just been working really, really hard to make sure that’s what it is. It’s going to be massive, I think, for Paramore. I’m really, really excited about it.”

Williams says the tour will also convey the combination of relief and triumph she and bandmates Taylor York and Jeremy Davis feel after not only surviving the schism with brothers Josh and Zac Farro in 2010 but also producing a No. 1 album with this year’s “Paramore,” which has spawned the hits “Now and “Still Into You.” Continue Reading

Huffington Post: A Conversation With Paramore’s Haley Williams

September 2, 2013
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Mike Ragogna: Haley, what inspired the writing process with your latest album?

Haley Williams: The main thing that I feel like is different and helped fuel our fire was sort of feeling like we were fighting this sort of apparent end to our band. It felt like it was an end of an era, but also a lot of people were wondering if we were going to go away, so we were fighting that. Not so much on the outside, but internally, the three of us always knew that we were going to keep the band alive. We had our doubts in the beginning with the whole process. While it sort of left us drained with little confidence in the beginning, it also fueled a fire in us that honestly we might have needed. We might have never had an album come out this way had we not gone through the things we went through as a band.

MR: To me, “Grow Up” seemed like a testament to that.

HW: A little bit. None of the songs are wholly about losing two band members and going through that drama, they are all parts and pieces of our daily life. It’s not an autobiography of Paramore. I think we already did that with our last album Brand New Eyes. It was in our mind that we didn’t need to re-create a Brand New Eyes Part 2. This album was more focused on growing up, moving beyond the downfall, all the negative energy. At the same time, there’s no real ignoring or denying the stuff that we’ve been through. I think those things shape the way that see myself, the way that I see the world around me and at some point those instances in my life are going to come up whether I want to flat out lie about it or not. Continue Reading