It has been five years since Paramore recorded music as a band, but that is about to change.
Hayley Williams, Zac Farro, and Taylor York ended their sabbatical on September 28 by releasing a new song and music video titled "This Is Why" under the direction of Brendan Yates.
Williams sings in the happy chorus, "This is why I don't leave the house / You say the coast is clear / But you won't catch me out / Oh, why? / This is why."
"This Is Why" is the title tune of the band's forthcoming sixth studio album, which will be released on February 10, 2023 by Atlantic Records.
Williams admitted that to be honest, she was already exhausted from composing lyrics, but Taylor persuaded Zac and her to work on this final concept."
She then said that the result was the title track for the entire album. For her, it encapsulates the multiplicity of absurd emotions, the emotional roller coaster of being alive in 2022, or even surviving the last three or four years. She even lamented the fact that the pandemic did not even make people kinder.
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"You'd think after a global pandemic of f-ing biblical proportions and the impending doom of a dying planet, that humans would have found it deep within themselves to be kinder or more empathetic or something," she said.
"After Laughter," which was released in 2017, featured songs such as "Hard Times" and "Rose-Colored Boy. Williams released her own solo album, Petals for Armor, in 2020, while Farro has released several solo compositions under the alias Halfnoise.
Williams recently told Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe on the band's reunion that she believes it was incredibly essential for them all to have a break from the identity being entangled with Paramore. She shared that she observed how the Internet has always been a Wild West, but in recent years it has become even crazier. So energy conservation is more important than ever, she shared.
The band will go on a North American tour in October.
The 12-show series includes a headlining performance at the Las Vegas When We Were Young Festival. In light of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the band declared that a part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to organizations that provide reproductive care and abortion services.