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Listen to David Byrne’s cover of Hard Times by Paramore
After inspiring “the cadence and tone of these verses”, Talking Heads’ David Byrne has covered Paramore’s Hard Times for Record Store Day – stream it now.
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Paramore: “Just like always, whatever we put out next will hopefully surprise people”
It doesn’t seem as though Paramore are rushing to get anything new out since going independent, but Hayley Williams hopes that whatever they end up doing makes people go, “Oh! I didn’t think it was gonna go this way…”
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A couple of months on from going completely independent as a band, Paramore have shared where their heads are at when it comes to new music.
While it sounds as though the trio are not rushing to put anything out just yet following last year’s excellent album This Is Why, in a new interview with Brooklyn Vegan ahead of Record Store Day this weekend, Hayley Williams says that their mindset when it comes to new material is simply to keep fans on their toes.
“Just like always,” the singer teases, “whatever we put out next will hopefully surprise people and make them go, ‘Oh! I didn’t think it was gonna go this way.’ That’s what we always hope for in a way.”
Speaking extremely positively about being without a label, Hayley explained, “We’ve always thought there’s not really any limitation. We can keep doing this as long as we want or we can put it to bed and go away. We’ve always tried to have that mindset about it – that this is a passion, we try to not treat it like a job – but I think the cool thing about now is that it really is, there are no deadlines on the table, there’s no anything really in front of us other than like, open sky, and it feels exciting. It’s overwhelming and also inspiring at the same time.”
Paramore will return to the UK this year supporting Taylor Swift.
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