Finally, some good news: Paramore are releasing their next single "The News" next Thursday (December 8), and they've shared a snippet of the song on TikTok.
UPDATE (12/9, 1:19 p.m. ET): "The News" is out now. Listen to it below.
Hayley Williams told Apple Music's Zane Lowe about the song's genesis, saying:
Personally, I was like, "Okay. We're not typically a political band," and it's not a solely political song or a solely political album. I understand that where we live, where we're positioned is not always reality. And we got four years at home to be members of our own community, be face to face with our families again, and kind of plug into our local community, be citizens, vote in person, all those things, right? But that was our first real experience of that as adults. So who wants to hear a bunch of people whine about how difficult it is to live in 2022 or 2020 when maybe our lives don't reflect the harshest of realities? But I think the other flip side to that is really wanting to do good and wanting to reflect the times as artists and wanting to be with it enough that we can use our platform. How can you ignore it? How can you not say anything?
It started with just the pandemic. Well, for us it started with the tornado in Nashville, but there was the tornado and then there was the global pandemic. There was George Floyd, there were all these uprisings, there were marches and protests that we went to. There was a bombing by a conspiracy theorist on Christmas Day in Nashville. It's like we're experiencing it from whatever vantage point we're at, and there's something to say about it. And I'm hoping, I'm praying and hoping that the perspective and the lyrics that we're presenting is personal enough and as much with respect to everyone's specific or potential vantage point that maybe other people can relate to it in some way that we haven't even intended. And that's the hopeful part of it.
The band's new album This Is Why arrives February 10, and while the trio has given us the title track to tide us over, people are hungry for (para)more. Their latest TikTok seemingly shows bandleader and fight breaker up-er Williams mailing a good old-fashioned burned CD to a fan under the handle @gwizzle, who is since understandably "LITERALLY SITTING AT MY MAILBOX RIGHT NOW."
Though the clip is only 14 seconds long, "The News" appears to be a moodier, mid-tempo cut, with spiralling vocals to match the rabbit hole of the world's inescapable badness.
Last month, Paramore revealed new cover art for their self-titled album, sans former member Jeremy Davis. They also announced a 2023 North American tour.
UPDATE (12/9, 1:19 p.m. ET): "The News" is out now. Listen to it below.
Hayley Williams told Apple Music's Zane Lowe about the song's genesis, saying:
Personally, I was like, "Okay. We're not typically a political band," and it's not a solely political song or a solely political album. I understand that where we live, where we're positioned is not always reality. And we got four years at home to be members of our own community, be face to face with our families again, and kind of plug into our local community, be citizens, vote in person, all those things, right? But that was our first real experience of that as adults. So who wants to hear a bunch of people whine about how difficult it is to live in 2022 or 2020 when maybe our lives don't reflect the harshest of realities? But I think the other flip side to that is really wanting to do good and wanting to reflect the times as artists and wanting to be with it enough that we can use our platform. How can you ignore it? How can you not say anything?
It started with just the pandemic. Well, for us it started with the tornado in Nashville, but there was the tornado and then there was the global pandemic. There was George Floyd, there were all these uprisings, there were marches and protests that we went to. There was a bombing by a conspiracy theorist on Christmas Day in Nashville. It's like we're experiencing it from whatever vantage point we're at, and there's something to say about it. And I'm hoping, I'm praying and hoping that the perspective and the lyrics that we're presenting is personal enough and as much with respect to everyone's specific or potential vantage point that maybe other people can relate to it in some way that we haven't even intended. And that's the hopeful part of it.
The band's new album This Is Why arrives February 10, and while the trio has given us the title track to tide us over, people are hungry for (para)more. Their latest TikTok seemingly shows bandleader and fight breaker up-er Williams mailing a good old-fashioned burned CD to a fan under the handle @gwizzle, who is since understandably "LITERALLY SITTING AT MY MAILBOX RIGHT NOW."
Though the clip is only 14 seconds long, "The News" appears to be a moodier, mid-tempo cut, with spiralling vocals to match the rabbit hole of the world's inescapable badness.
@paramoreofficial @gwizzle ♬ The News - Paramore
Last month, Paramore revealed new cover art for their self-titled album, sans former member Jeremy Davis. They also announced a 2023 North American tour.
