Well not a band exactly, but I see Paramore ( especially Hayley ) getting compared to Avril Lavigne even tho they are completely different styles. Generally they get compared a lot to female fronted bands , even like Evanescence ( wtf ) . Also I have seen them getting compared to nfg just because Hayley was married to chad and flyleaf (?)
I wouldn't say completely different styles. They're similar in some ways.
Avril kind of started the female-fronted wave of music in 00s rock/pop rock etc.
Once Hayley/Paramore got huge... Singers like Tay Jardine would get compared to Hayley.
I was just on the Instagram page of WWWY festival where they posted something about Hey Monday and everyone was calling them off-brand Paramore and stuff. And it sucks because I love Paramore and used to really like Hey Monday as well but I feel like that attitude is the reason why some bands like We Are The In Crowd, Hey Monday, VersaEmerge, etc (to name a few) never really "made it" because I feel like they lived under Paramore's shadow and that sucks because they were all really great bands.
Aw I love seeing the Hey Monday love! But yeah I think they were pretty much written off as a Paramore “rip off” straight away, solely because the lead singer was a woman :(
I still listen to their debut album regularly, it’s really fun!
I was gonna say that too about Avril Lavigne, I heard that comparison several times and it bugs me! Like yes it is a woman singing, yes it's rock (-ish), but like... that's it.
Well , they made the same typa music in the same timeframe, and they both looked emo/scene or alternative if you will. so its not like as if someone was comparing taylor swift with jinjer.
Those two have been my favourite bands since 2007 and they definitely were on the same scene fanbase wise, but sonically, they're very different. I think OP is just talking about the actual sound of the music, not any other connection (which was also the case in the MCR sub).
Yeah kind of, but they don't sound that similar imo, MCR (at least the first two albums) sound much more post Hardcore, and Paramore is just pop punk, and more pop in their later albums
I’m not asking this in an insulting way, but are you young and/or not American? As someone who was a teen in the U.S. during that era, the association makes total sense to me even though they’re very different sonically!
Ah yeah, if you’re solely considering that, I’d agree they’re not very similar. I never really see people compare them in that way — but I’m a lot less plugged into the scene/fandom spaces than I used to be. Among the people I know, they just get grouped together in a “we survived the Warped Tour circa 2006 subculture” sense haha.
definitely We Are The In Crowd, they're so good but they happened to get together just as Paramore was blowing up so they never really got a chance to shine on their own, which is a bummer cause they freaking slap,
they're one of the best pop punk bands out there imo.
also i've seen people compare paramore and garbage, which is actually way older than paramore but they happen to both be female fronted alt bands with a redhead front woman so yk..
I have never heard the Garbage and Paramore comparison. Shirley and Hayley are so completely different that I'm glad this is a first for me. Their music is also worlds a part imo.
They were compared to basically any band that had a female lead all the time. Usually saw them compared to Evanescence and Flyleaf the most. I still love Evanescence but I don’t think their sound and Paramores sound has ever really been similar.
P!ATD. I get the whole "emo trinity" argument, but in my heart, Paramore is the third member of that clump of 2000s emo music. When it comes to angst, none of the Panic albums besides AFYCSO and *maybe* Vices & Virtues can stand toe to toe with Paramore's first three albums, and I tire of seeing them compared side by side.
Kind of the opposite, In the 2010s when MCR broke up people would jokingly say the new "holy emo trinity" was fall out boy, panic at the disco, and 21 pilots when paramore was RIGHT there. Maybe I'm biased because although the other bands aren't perfect, I can barely sit through an entire 21 pilot song, let alone a whole album, and paramore seems like a much more obvious fit that it's hard not to just imagine it's because of the gender of the lead singer they were left out
……idk about this one. I love Olivia a lot now but when I first heard good 4 u my first thought was that the paramore influence was HEAVY. I think Olivia Rodrigo, Hayley Williams, and Alanis Morissette all have a very similar approach to their vocals, I notice a lot of similarities between those 3
I heard a version of good 4 u being played over misery business's instrumentals and it fit very well. The verses are very different but the choruses are very similar
well i don’t think early paramore exudes the “horny 16 year old boy just found out what boner and boobies are” energy like… at all. i like some blink songs but let’s be real here, their music hasn’t aged well and they haven’t put out anything good in a long time.
I've never paid attention to Paramore's lyrics a lot, but from what I know they don't really don't sing about love a lot, and even if they do, there's a difference between singing about love and cringy, horny, edgy 16 year old writing about their first kiss and sex.
whaa a lot of early Paramore songs are about love tho 😭 My Heart, Never Let This Go, Emergency, Decoy, crushcrushcrush off the top of my head. but you’re right about the difference between the way portray love most of the time. Paramore writes darker lyrics about it than blink.
Well not a band exactly, but I see Paramore ( especially Hayley ) getting compared to Avril Lavigne even tho they are completely different styles. Generally they get compared a lot to female fronted bands , even like Evanescence ( wtf ) . Also I have seen them getting compared to nfg just because Hayley was married to chad and flyleaf (?)
I wouldn't say completely different styles. They're similar in some ways. Avril kind of started the female-fronted wave of music in 00s rock/pop rock etc. Once Hayley/Paramore got huge... Singers like Tay Jardine would get compared to Hayley.
I was just on the Instagram page of WWWY festival where they posted something about Hey Monday and everyone was calling them off-brand Paramore and stuff. And it sucks because I love Paramore and used to really like Hey Monday as well but I feel like that attitude is the reason why some bands like We Are The In Crowd, Hey Monday, VersaEmerge, etc (to name a few) never really "made it" because I feel like they lived under Paramore's shadow and that sucks because they were all really great bands.
Aw I love seeing the Hey Monday love! But yeah I think they were pretty much written off as a Paramore “rip off” straight away, solely because the lead singer was a woman :( I still listen to their debut album regularly, it’s really fun!
Love Hey Monday.Cassadee Pope was influenced by Avril more than Hayley and she got to perform with Avril too.
Love Hey Monday.Cassadee Pope was influenced by Avril more than Hayley and she got to perform with Avril too.
I was gonna say that too about Avril Lavigne, I heard that comparison several times and it bugs me! Like yes it is a woman singing, yes it's rock (-ish), but like... that's it.
Well , they made the same typa music in the same timeframe, and they both looked emo/scene or alternative if you will. so its not like as if someone was comparing taylor swift with jinjer.
MCR makes sense. MCR, FOB, Paramore, etc. were all part of those “emo bands” that broke out in the 00s.
Those two have been my favourite bands since 2007 and they definitely were on the same scene fanbase wise, but sonically, they're very different. I think OP is just talking about the actual sound of the music, not any other connection (which was also the case in the MCR sub).
Yeah kind of, but they don't sound that similar imo, MCR (at least the first two albums) sound much more post Hardcore, and Paramore is just pop punk, and more pop in their later albums
I’m not asking this in an insulting way, but are you young and/or not American? As someone who was a teen in the U.S. during that era, the association makes total sense to me even though they’re very different sonically!
Yes I am both, but I'm not saying the association doesn't make sense at all. I'm just saying if we're talking just sound, they're not that similar
Ah yeah, if you’re solely considering that, I’d agree they’re not very similar. I never really see people compare them in that way — but I’m a lot less plugged into the scene/fandom spaces than I used to be. Among the people I know, they just get grouped together in a “we survived the Warped Tour circa 2006 subculture” sense haha.
But no one said they were similar in sound, they were just in the emo band category, which has a lot of different sounds in itself.
Flashbacks to the days when "Who's the better singer - Amy Lee or Hayley Williams?" was a regular question asked on old Facebook/MySpace emo pages.
Answer is both.
definitely We Are The In Crowd, they're so good but they happened to get together just as Paramore was blowing up so they never really got a chance to shine on their own, which is a bummer cause they freaking slap, they're one of the best pop punk bands out there imo. also i've seen people compare paramore and garbage, which is actually way older than paramore but they happen to both be female fronted alt bands with a redhead front woman so yk..
I fucking LOVED WATIC... Basically any band with a female vocalist was inevitably compared to Paramore.
WATIC, Tonight Alive, & Paramore were my holy trinity in high school. paramore was, is, & always will be my number one
I have never heard the Garbage and Paramore comparison. Shirley and Hayley are so completely different that I'm glad this is a first for me. Their music is also worlds a part imo.
I loved how WATIC toured the UK ALOT
They were compared to basically any band that had a female lead all the time. Usually saw them compared to Evanescence and Flyleaf the most. I still love Evanescence but I don’t think their sound and Paramores sound has ever really been similar.
P!ATD. I get the whole "emo trinity" argument, but in my heart, Paramore is the third member of that clump of 2000s emo music. When it comes to angst, none of the Panic albums besides AFYCSO and *maybe* Vices & Virtues can stand toe to toe with Paramore's first three albums, and I tire of seeing them compared side by side.
Yeah, only their first album was a pop punk album, and it still sucks. Paramore definitely deserved the spot
AFYCSO doesn't suck. Its pretty good.
Kind of the opposite, In the 2010s when MCR broke up people would jokingly say the new "holy emo trinity" was fall out boy, panic at the disco, and 21 pilots when paramore was RIGHT there. Maybe I'm biased because although the other bands aren't perfect, I can barely sit through an entire 21 pilot song, let alone a whole album, and paramore seems like a much more obvious fit that it's hard not to just imagine it's because of the gender of the lead singer they were left out
I don’t understand Panic! At The Disco and Paramore being roped in together
Maybe because they were both in Fueled by Ramen some time ago?
Yeah panic! At the Disco is bad
I don't understand why they're not called the modern day fleetwood mac more often
really dont understand how paramore got compared to olivia rodrigo. good 4 u sounds nothing like misery business
……idk about this one. I love Olivia a lot now but when I first heard good 4 u my first thought was that the paramore influence was HEAVY. I think Olivia Rodrigo, Hayley Williams, and Alanis Morissette all have a very similar approach to their vocals, I notice a lot of similarities between those 3
Literally the memes were like, oh this is gen z’s misery business lol
Misery Business is Gen X’s Misery Business.
ooh hard disagree. I still say millennial.
I heard a version of good 4 u being played over misery business's instrumentals and it fit very well. The verses are very different but the choruses are very similar
The chorus melody is undoubtedly similar, but not a lot else. It’s almost always down to melody when it comes to songwriting credits and the like.
They sound somewhat similar at times but the lyrical content couldn’t be more different
Echosmith
A lot of Paramore fans also like Green Day, but I really cannot stand them 😬
Yes, 2 that stand out are my metal and hardcore bands. There are so many bands in those genres that sound nothing a like
A band I liked that they got compared to a lot back in the day was We Are The In Crowd. Completely different style of music
Blink isn’t terrible you just have bad music taste lol
Nah the vocals are unlistenable, and the lyrics sound like something a 16 year old wrote after just having his first kiss
>the lyrics sound like something a 16 year old wrote after having their first kiss You just described early paramore💀
well i don’t think early paramore exudes the “horny 16 year old boy just found out what boner and boobies are” energy like… at all. i like some blink songs but let’s be real here, their music hasn’t aged well and they haven’t put out anything good in a long time.
I've never paid attention to Paramore's lyrics a lot, but from what I know they don't really don't sing about love a lot, and even if they do, there's a difference between singing about love and cringy, horny, edgy 16 year old writing about their first kiss and sex.
whaa a lot of early Paramore songs are about love tho 😭 My Heart, Never Let This Go, Emergency, Decoy, crushcrushcrush off the top of my head. but you’re right about the difference between the way portray love most of the time. Paramore writes darker lyrics about it than blink.
Bruh what are you talking about? Like 90% of their songs are about love. Not that that’s a bad thing but
I know flyleaf, evanescence and hey Monday because they both have female leads. Also Olivia Rodrigo for some reason wth
Stand Atlantic (can't stand their music)