Paramore On The Band’s Uncertain Future And What Lies Ahead
Paramore shared that after the completion of their album, ‘This Is Why’, they have fulfilled all obligations to their label and are now free agents.
Paramore: Photographed by Zachary Gray.
Paramore: Photographed by Zachary Gray.
Paramore have recently opened up on what the future holds for the band, sharing that there is a “level of uncertainty” moving forward.
In a recent interview with Uproxx, the beloved pop-punk band — which comprises frontwoman Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and drummer Zac Farro — revealed that a chapter has now come to the end with the completion of their latest album, This Is Why. Paramore shared, both in their interview and later via social media, that after releasing the record and touring around North America, Europe, and South America throughout the last year, they have now fulfilled all obligations with their label and are now free agents.
With this, the band shared that it is unclear what this means for the future of Paramore but adding that they’ll still be together no matter what happens. “The only thing that matters is we will still get to be each other’s community,” Williams says to Uproxx. Farro echos, “I just hope we can keep building the Paramore empire and then rule the world.”
Paramore released This Is Why in February 2023. The album served as the highly anticipated follow up to 2017’s After Laughter. Ahead of the release — their first in five years, Williams penned a letter detailing what it’s been like preparing for their return as a trio and how they were about to experience the “happiest, most fulfilling moments as Paramore”.
“The idea of getting out there and doing what we do at a time like this feels heavy and futile and necessary all at once. It also feels like the perfect time to take advantage of every opportunity we are given to leverage our platform and all of that for good causes. Whether those are literal causes or whether it’s just about showing ourselves and each other that music is still a good place to be,” wrote Williams in a letter shared to the band’s Discord. “For many reasons I don’t even have words for, I think we are about to experience our happiest, most fulfilling moments as Paramore.”
In 2024, Paramore will be opening for the European leg of Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour.
Listen to Paramore’s This Is Why here.
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Paramore did not announce a breakup. In an Uproxx interview, the band cited a “level of uncertainty” about its future after completing its label obligations, while saying the members will stay together. Hayley Williams said, “The only thing that matters is we will still get to be each other’s community.”
Paramore became free agents after fulfilling all obligations with their label following the completion of This Is Why. The band had released the album and toured North America, Europe, and South America over the previous year, and shared the update in an Uproxx interview and later on social media.
Paramore is a pop-punk band made up of frontwoman Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and drummer Zac Farro. Zac Farro said he hoped the group could “keep building the Paramore empire” and “rule the world,” in comments made during the interview about the band’s future.
Paramore released This Is Why in February 2023, their first album in five years and the follow-up to 2017’s After Laughter. Ahead of the release, Hayley Williams wrote a letter about preparing to return as a trio and said the band was about to experience its “happiest, most fulfilling moments.”
Paramore was scheduled to open the European leg of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2024. The commitment followed the band’s This Is Why touring and arrived as the members described their longer-term future after the label obligations as unclear.