February 2023

Paramore is the pop-punk band of people’s lives. The Nashville-born and raised band were formed in 2004 when lead singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and drummer Zac Farro were teens. In their sixth studio album, “This Is Why” they get angrier, pricklier, and funkier all the while merging the band’s past and future, to levitate way beyond their icon status to something else entirely. In a review forn The Associated Press, Nardos Haile says the lead single, “This Is Why,” is an encapsulation of Williams’ self-aware, political and intimate songwriting that is present throughout this album.