It's not Paramore's fault they're getting more popular. It's not their fault that a lot of teenies who just heard Misery Business or CrushCrushCrush come to their shows and piss everyone off.
I definitely agree with you about Josh, though. He's dead on stage now and I'm actually a little scared he's gonna leave the band while they're writing the album, like Hunter did.
I still enjoy Riot! just as much as I did when I first bought it. Sure, it's a lot more poppy than AWKIF but, in my opinion, that doesn't make it any worse.
Can I ask you how they're going mainstream if they wrote Riot before they got popular and haven't REALLY written any music since then?