Paramore to get the week rolling – recorded live at the Hultsfred Festival by Sveriges Radio P3 on June 12, 2008.
Paramore’s music style has generally been regarded as pop-punk, emo, pop rock, alternative rock, power pop, emo pop, new wave, punk rock, pop, grunge, electropop, and synth-pop. Joshua Martin had written after an interview with Hayley Williams, “The band isn’t just a short pop-punk girl with red hair and a spunky attitude. Their music is like them, it’s aged differently. It’s sped up, and slowed down. It’s emo without being whiny, or bratty. Almost a very literal anti-Avril Lavigne.” Alternative Press magazine had commented that the band was “young-sounding”, while consistently being “honest”. Paramore’s first album All We Know is Falling had an arguably more “formulaic pop-punk” sound that was “delivered particularly well” and the combination of the two had created a “refined rock infused pop/punk album”. The band’s second release, Riot! was said to explore a ‘diverse range of styles,” however, not straying far from “their signature sound”. The band’s later albums, such as Paramore and After Laughter, included more of a new wave and synth-pop sound. The band’s sixth studio album, This Is Why went for more of a post-punk and dance-punk sound.
Paramore has expressed appreciation for Weezer, Hum, Failure, Far, No Doubt, Deftones, the Smiths, Blink-182, Death Cab for Cutie, Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate, and New Found Glory. Hayley Williams has cited her personal influences as MewithoutYou, Elvis Presley, the Shirelles, the Angels, the Ramones, Jawbreaker, Freddie Mercury, Karen O, Josh Scogin, Blondie, Bloc Party, NSYNC, Aaliyah, the Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, and Etta James. Williams named many singers as heroines: “I love Debbie Harry and Siouxsie Sioux. I grew up listening to The Distillers. Girl groups are really important to me, but the Shangri-Las especially”. Williams also explained that bands such as U2, “who are massive, and do whatever they want, write whatever they want and they stand for something,” Jimmy Eat World, “who I don’t think ever disappoint their fans,” and No Doubt, who “have done amazing things”, act as a pattern for the path in which Paramore would like to take their career. In 2012, Williams contributed vocals to MewithoutYou’s fifth studio album, Ten Stories.
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