Paramore Share First New Song In Five Years, 'This Is Why'

Paramore have announced a new album, This Is Why and shared the record's titular track. 

This Is Why is Paramore's first new music since 2017 and brings to an end five years of fans clamouring for the band to return from hiatus.

Entering back into a world - and cultural landscape - very different from the one they last participated in, Paramore have returned with a song about exactly that.

This Is Why is a deliciously infectious Paramore ear-worm for the post-truth world. 

Of the song, Williams says, “This Is Why was the very last song we wrote for the album. To be honest, I was so tired of writing lyrics but Taylor convinced Zac and I both that we should work on this last idea. What came out of it was the title track for the whole album. It summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last 3 or 4 years. You’d think after a global pandemic of fucking 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.”

In what’s widely recognized as one of the most exciting musical returns of the year, the band have also announced the release of their long awaited sixth studio album,This is Why,for February 10, 2023 on Atlantic Records.

Recorded in Los Angeles, California with long-time collaborator Carlos de la Garza, the album features 10 new Paramore songs with cover art shot by Zachary Gray.

This Is Why arrives accompanied by a video directed by Turnstile’s Brendan Yates. This Is Why was filmed in Malibu, California last month. Speaking on the video and collaboration, Williams says,

“It was so rad working with Brendan. I’ve known the Turnstile guys for a little while and was so psyched to have our worlds collide in this way. There’s a cool kinship between the way our bands do things... Hopefully we will get to play shows with them at some point.”