If I told you a band debuted in the UK ahead of My Chemical Romance, Paul McCartney, and Fergie you’d think they were a mega band releasing a new single. You’d be partially right, It is a mega band… you just haven’t bought their record yet to put them there. Paramore, a band from Franklin Tennessee, has been the next big thing for the past few years. Meeting up in school in Tennessee at a young age, they grew from a Funk/Soul cover band with Doobie Brothers and Chaka Khan on their playlists, to headlining the Warped Tour. Yet, with their new release of RIOT! They look to squash the “Next Big Thing” and be the “thing” everyone listens to. With riffs that rival some of the most recent summer anthems, to lyrics that evoke even some of the most complicated emotion you’ll find yourself regretting you’ve not heard them sooner. Now here is the big kicker, Most of the band isn’t even legal to drink yet, but you’ll still find yourself in your cars, on your iPods, with your mixed CD’s with this band in mind. So, Hayley (the vocalist) granted Socialitelife an interview, and here it is!!!

Josh: Thank you so much for granting our website this interview Hayley!

Hayley (paramore): It’s no problem! The site is awesome! It’s so crazy how many readers you guys have!

Josh: Well, Thank you. I do have to get the canned questions out for our readers first. How did your band come together at such a young age?

Hayley: I met Zac and Josh who are brothers in I guess it was 2002. I was 13 years old going on 14, and Zac and Josh came up to me at school. We were at a really small school, maybe 90 kids in the whole thing. They came up to me and basically said, “Hey you look like you love our style of music”. They were really outgoing, and it was really easy to get along with them. Our friendships were really built on mixed cds. Zac would bring me cd’s with Jimmy eat world, and it was a totally different side of music. Jeremy was the oldest of us, he was like 16. Maybe a little older, and he was playing bass in a cover band. We all just grew up together. Now we’re all just in one big sleepover pretty much.

More of Josh Martin’s interview with Paramore after the jump.

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