Just some things I've always wondered/ been curious about with Paramore. The most recent of these that I'm sharing is going to be about Jeremy "leaving", so I'm breaking my promise a bit. Some of these are my own, some I've found online, a...
Obviously, the past few months there have been certain parts of paramore.net that are under maintenance, or inaccessible, and I've never been suspicious...until now.
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How come just Hayley's bio page isn't accessible? (at the time of this post the bio is not accessible)
It's the only thing, besides the homepage, that can't currently be accessed. This might just be a glitch, but I can't help but feel it's more than that. I haven't been on the site in a while, so if someone knows and can tell me the last time the page was accessible, I would really appreciate it.
I don't know guys, I get a bad feeling from this for some reason. I've felt for a while now that Hayley seems a lot more into doing business for GDY than stuff for Paramore. That's really just how I feel, and you don't have to agree with me, it's just my opinion.
I really started feeling this way when Hayley replaced the paramore.net link in her twitter bio with the link to the GDY website after GDY dropped. Obviously, the paramore.net link was to a bio of Hayley on the website, whereas the GDY link is to the general website.
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Just from what I observe, it feels like she talks about GDY a lot more (of course she's made appearances and done interviews with Brian as well), and I understand she has to start up her company, but looking from the outside it's like she's the only marketing team she has with how much she talks about and promotes it.
I want to clarify, I don't think Hayley is leaving Paramore, I don't think she hates being in Paramore, I just think that she's put Paramore on the back burner for now to focus more on GDY. In my opinion (and I don't know how welcome that is), I don't think it was a good idea for her to launch GDY the same year that she's trying to write a new album, because it's a lot to balance and usually in a balancing act something is considered a little more important, and as of now it looks like that thing is GDY.
I've said multiple times that I feel a certain disconnect with Paramore right now, and I really don't know why. I wish I did, so I could confront it and feel better, but I can't pinpoint what it is that's turning me away from them right now. I think maybe it's that I feel that they're disconnected from their fans right now. There's a tweet here and there about how they're doing, but they don't really answer any questions that are asked (some really important questions get seriously shrugged off). I think it goes back to missing the constant posts on livejournal, on instagram, the livestreams they used to do all the time, because they don't do that anymore. I think the disconnect for me and for a lot of people I've talked to is that it doesn't seem like Paramore's trying to connect with fans anymore. It seems, at least to me, that they're really just trying to push through this next album, and it doesn't feel like their hearts are in it, and that's scary to think about. I really do think that they'll take a break after this album, and if they'll come back from this break, I'm not sure. I want to love Paramore, and I want them to keep making music and doing better and better, but something is disheartening for me right now. I wish I knew what it was.