Though everything the group has put out so far has much to love, let’s get into this ranking of every Paramore record, considering what makes for a strong album on its own terms, and what best exemplifies all that Paramore can be. As with any band this popular, a list like this is prone to fervent debate and dissent-many of the people this writer polled in drafting this list offered wildly different takes from my own, naming some of the lower entries here as the best that Paramore has ever made. With the release of Paramore’s sixth studio album This Is Why last week, we’re taking a comprehensive look at each record to date and ranking them, from the teenage origins of the group on 2005’s All We Know Is Falling to their latest. After several shake-ups to who constituted Paramore, the group is now a trio composed of vocalist Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and drummer Zac Farro, whose dynamic has already yielded two wholly distinct consecutive albums since 2017, without ever feeling too far divorced from what endeared Paramore to fans in the first place. The band has been through its fair share of tumultuous lineup shifts, interpersonal spats, and near-derailments, yet currently exists healthier and more stable than ever-the less said about the spotty personalities of its former members, the better. This multiplicity is, at its core, a perfect analogue for Paramore’s own penchant for major divergences from their past with each album. For an even younger listenership, they embody something else entirely: a roadmap for a sound and lyrical vulnerability that still reverberates in emerging artists from Olivia Rodrigo to Meet Me the Altar.
For those of a certain age, Paramore represents the best case scenario for what a band they followed from youth could be-a group in constant self-consideration and reevaluation, never content to rest on their laurels, while also unafraid to be critical about how they could keep improving.
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