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Opened: August 25, 2005Owner: Ashley Brown
Co-Web: Brent Sower
Members: 6,800+
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Fan Question - Where did you come up with the name Paramore and does it have any significant meaning to the band?
In the beginning it started out as this old idea we were throwing around and it was our bass player's moms' maiden name. And after that band ended, we were like "oh Paramore, that's pretty cool" and we just went with it. (Laughter) And in latin it means "more love" and we found that out and liked it and thought it was really cool so we used it! How is the music scene in Tennessee? People don't necessarily relate that to the type of music you perform so do you think this has worked to your advantage or been a little more difficult? A lot of people think it's a disadvantage being from Nashville because there's so many bad bands from there! (Laughter) But there's a lot of good ones. And we respect a lot of the ones from [Nashville]. I don't mind being from Nashville, I like it ya know. It's got a great scene and our actual hometown, Franklin, is awesome. Everywhere online there are five people as being credited as members of Paramore yet on all your promo photos, there’s only four members. Can you explain the discrepancy between the two, and what's the story with the new bass player, John? We were a five piece in the beginning and when we decided that we were going to move to Orlando for a couple months to write and record, we all five went down. And this was with the old bass player Jeremy. And about two weeks into it, we were getting ready to record and he brought us out back and was like "guys I just bought a plane ticket home and I'm not going to be in the band anymore." And we were like "oh my gosh!" It just ripped us apart. And we spent about a month as a four piece band just practicing and writing, and about two weeks before we were about to go out on tour we met John and just thought he was an amazing player and has such a great heart and just a great person. And he joined the band right before we started touring. But the photo shoot took place when we were only a four piece band, but from now on he should be in all of the photos. What is the anticipation like for you right now with your debut album coming out in just a couple weeks and there are a lot of people (including Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy) commenting on how great Paramore is and how you’re being considered a band with so much talent and potential already? It's amazing! I can't describe it you know. We always have hoped that we could get to where we are now and we hope that we are able to do this for a really long time and be successful with it. But, I mean we're going crazy waiting for it to come out! And we're excited we have support from bands that mean a lot to us; that's important. So gosh; I dunno, we got some pre-release copies in the mail the other day and I was all nervous about it and like freaking out! I was like "oh my God, CD's!" (Laughter) It's great...I've given one to each of my friends and they all seem to like it. There's been nothing but excitement from this album. Do you feel that it puts any extra pressure on you guys right now, performing for your first time on Warped Tour knowing that a lot of people aren’t familiar with you yet, and having to win them over with such a small set time? Yeah, you know. We're used to playing thirty minute sets and having to...our goal is to in thirty minutes, give them the best thirty minutes that we can. I think we do a pretty good job of it. Sometimes I think the biggest thing for us is it's kind of overwhelming seeing all your favorite bands walking around you. And they're like "oh yeah we're playing at 3:00." And we're like, "well how big are the crowds usually?" And they're like "a thousand, two thousand!" And that's something that's incredible to us. And we'll get there. We just don't put pressure on ourselves and just have a great time. Do you have any touring plans after Warped Tour, perhaps a national tour this fall or anything lined up? Right now we're talking to some different bands, trying to get some stuff lined up for after Warped Tour. But no plans right now. Do you guys currently have any plans to record a music video or officially release a single this summer to accompany the release of “All We Know Is Falling?” Yeah, we did just shoot something for the song "All We Know." It's like live footage and us at rehearsal space and it's a really cool video. And apparently, John Janick, the president [of Fueled By Ramen] sent it to Fused. So hopefully they'll start playing it so we'll see what happens with that. For those people out there that will be reading this interview but might not have heard of Paramore before, could you describe your sound and how you feel you guys have been able to distinguish yourself from many of the other bands currently out these days? Well I mean, it's high energy. And it's pretty aggressive and intense. It's cool because I'm a girl and I listen to a lot of the bands we're playing with, and it's cool that we aren't being looked down on because we're a girl fronted band. I don't think that just because we're different in that area it's going to limit us. As a follow up to that, which song or songs do you believe best represents who you guys are musically? We love "All We Know," and we love "My Heart." What else...we love "Here We Go Again." It’s very evident on the song “Franklin” that you’ve been struggling with your identity since being in the band and recording the album and being out on tour. Have you been able to kind of ground yourself yet with balancing a normal life at such a young age, while at the same time taking such big and sudden steps into the music industry? This is what we love to do. And we can't really...like I'm the worst out of all of us. I stress out and go crazy! It's good to have all five of us support each other and us being friends. And having that friendship where we support each other and have fun. Fan Question - When you wrote the songs on the new album, are you writing about experiences that have happened directly to you, or just about things that have influenced you? What’s the focus or subject of a lot of the new songs? Most everything is from personal experience. The song "All We Know" is about Jeremy leaving us and how we couldn't understand it, and we couldn't grasp it. It wasn't really real to us. And it's almost like a letter to him saying "I'll never forget you." So some of the songs are about things that are happening to people around me, but others are right from what I'm going through. <-- Back |