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Paramore comment on split

By | Published on Thursday 6 January 2011

Paramore

Paramore have commented again on the departure of guitarist and drummer Josh and Zac Farro in December, after their ex-bandmates issued their own statement dissing their former band.

As previously reported, in December Paramore issued a statement on their website telling fans that “for the last year it hasn’t seemed as if [Josh and Zac] wanted to be around any more” and that they “support them finding happiness elsewhere”.

However, shortly afterward, Josh released a statement on behalf of himself and his brother, dismissing the band as being just a front for what was actually a solo record deal for frontwoman Hayley Williams, while adding that they had been uncomfortable with what they deemed blasphemous lyrics on latest album, ‘Brand New Eyes’.

Although a spokesperson for the band initially claimed that Josh’s statement was a fake (it was the only post on a freely hosted blog), Josh later posted a video message to the same website confirming its authenticity.

In a new interview with MTV, which will be broadcast in the US this Friday, the remaining members of the band have given what they say will be their final comments on the matter.

Williams said of Farro’s statement: “I don’t know if I got a phone call or an email, but I woke up to it, basically, and that sucked, and I was not happy. And yeah, it hurts, because what we were told was that they weren’t happy, they didn’t want to do this, and you can’t be mad at someone for not feeling something … But then when it really became about all these other things, I was very surprised and kind of felt led on, almost. We’ve been doing this for six, seven years now. I don’t think any of this has been in vain, for any of us … and I don’t think anyone should discredit it”.

Guitarist Taylor York added: “It was a drag … Once we released our statement, we all knew they would probably release something. So I think we were all kind of bracing ourselves. You know, break-ups are hard, and there’s a lot of feelings so we kind of, in a way, we expected there to be something weird. So, yeah, it was really hard to read, just because it seemed like a lot of the stuff was pretty irrelevant to what happened. I think that was the weird thing, ’cause it just didn’t seem really necessary”.



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