“So I think we were all kind of bracing ourselves…It was really hard to read, just because it seemed like a lot of the stuff was pretty irrelevant to what happened. …Once we released our statement, we all knew they would probably release something,” said York of the blog post. So this is our way of showing that there’s a future and we’re stoked for it.” “A lot of kids are still asking if the band is breaking up, and that just goes to show how broken the communication online can be, when rumors start traveling. In an interview with MTV, Williams, York and Davis said they were “hurt” by Josh’s blog post. “The three of us are still here - we’re not going anywhere,” said Williams, who also revealed previously that guitarist Justin York and drummer Josh Freese will be joining the band for its upcoming South American tour. January 2011: Paramore’s “not going anywhere” It’s been obvious how her family views things.”įarro confirmed the rumors he and Williams dated, claiming that after their breakup, “things started going downhill for the band.” We’ve always been treated as less important than Hayley. He also claimed her parents controlled her, noting, “Hayley’s father … would constantly threaten to ‘pull the plug’ on the whole band if we complained about anything, suggesting that we were hired guns and Hayley was the real artist, when in reality we were also part of the band. … Next thing we knew we were having a signing party for Hayley.” We didn’t understand why Hayley was the only one signing the contract since we were told this was a ‘band,’ but we were too young to grasp all of this. “After many meetings between Hayley, her manager and the labels they decided to sign her to Atlantic Records. “The band was in the dark the whole time,” he continued. We found out that they had been meeting with record label executives all morning without us, which is totally weird given that this wasn’t simply a solo artist, but we were a band,” he wrote. “Hayley’s manager would tell the band to be in the lobby of the hotel at a certain time, but he and Hayley wouldn’t show for hours. After noting that Williams released the departure statement “without my permission,” he went on to call Paramore “a manufactured product of a major label,” and accused Williams of being manipulated by her management, and her bandmates were simply “riding on the coattails of ‘Hayley’s dream.'” Just days after Paramore’s official statement, Josh fired back with a scathing, since-deleted statement on his blog. Knowing that we have a unified passion and a clear vision makes us feel stronger than ever.”ĭecember 2010: Josh Farro’s jab at his former bandmates “You have always been what keeps us going so why would we stop now? We want to stick by you. We really hope that you can be encouraged by the fact that the three of us who are still here are ready to take on another chapter of our journey together,” the statement continued. “We never for a second thought about leaving any of this behind. “We want Josh and Zac to do something that makes them happy and if that isn’t here with us, then we support them finding happiness elsewhere.” For the last year it hasn’t seemed as if they wanted to be around anymore,” the statement read.
While fans were shocked by the news, the remaining three members Hayley Williams, Jeremy Davis and Taylor York admitted that they weren’t. “None of us were really shocked.
More than a year after the release of their 2009 album Brand New Eyes, Paramore shared in a since-deleted blogpost on their official site that founding members Josh and Zac Farro were leaving the band.
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