“None of us know what’s going to happen, there’s no way to tell until the record comes out,” admitted Hayley back in early 2007. It combined their boys-and-girl-next-door appeal with a newfound barbed edge on timeless pop-rock hits like the sugary-sweet ‘That’s What You Get’, thumping ‘Crushcrushcrush’ and the incomparable ‘Misery Business’ to become 2007’s defining release.Īnd in a year where Fall Out Boy released their own barnstorming epic in the form of ‘Infinity On High’, that says a lot. Thirty-eight minutes and 58 seconds filled wall to wall, floor to ceiling with the biggest, catchiest songs to the point where even the album’s B-sides have millions of Spotify streams ‘Riot!’ was (and maybe still is) Paramore’s defining moment. They’d toured the world off the back of it and were tipped as Ones To Watch by everyone from Warped Tour’s Kevin Lyman to your very own neighbourhood Rock Sound, but with album two, they came back with something that defined a scene and made it Paramore’s own. The Tennessee mob had made steady progress with debut full-length ‘All We Know Is Falling’. This was pre-Instagram, pre-Snapchat, pre-Spotify and pre-Paramore blowing up. It was a time before almost-breakups and reconciliations, and a time when the world hadn’t quite clocked just how special Paramore were yet. This is its story.īefore ‘After Laughter’, before the self-titled era and before ‘Brand New Eyes’ was a time when it was just Hayley, Josh, Jeremy, Taylor and Zac against the world.Ī time when people were still shocked by *gasp* a girl in a band, let alone a girl with a huge voice and a personality to match. Paramore's astonishing second album turns 10 today (June 12).
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