YMMV / Paramore

• Critical Dissonance: The self-titled album has gotten incredible critical acclaim (82 on Metacritic), but some of the band's established fans largely consider it to be their worst album for many reasons, chief among them shifting their sound to pop rock and putting themselves on the pop charts.
  • History would repeat itself with the release of their fifth album, After Laughter, in 2017 for much of the same reasons among long-time fans.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • Paramore is so popular in Brazil, that in 2009, when a chat was scheduled with them on Absolute Punk, the band's Brazilian fans swarmed the site so heavily that they crashed the site.
  • In terms of specific work, "Ignorance" charted significantly higher in every single territory other than the US and Canada.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Most of the band's Silly Love Songs such as "Still Into You" and "The Only Exception" become a bit harder to listen to in light of Hayley and Chad Gilbert's divorce. Doubly so when you consider Hayley's rather negative feelings about her relationship with Chad in hindsight. Although it seems she has felt less negative about the song by 2023. When "Still Into You" enters into live performances, Hayley will sometimes start by dedicating it to Paramore itself, implying she's reclaimed it as a song about the love of making music and/or platonic love for the rest of the band, rather than romantic love.
• Heartwarming Moments: During a concert, the band invited a fan to sing on stage, but, during the chorus, she accidentally fell onto the stage while standing on a box. Rather than help her up, the band immediately lied next to her to save her from the embarrassment.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Their Self-Titled Album has attracted a LOT of this for actually having a pop hit, which is not helped by their shift from being Pop Punk to just being pure Pop Rock.
  • After Laughter would likewise receive this reception from long-time fans for its similar style of music.
• Periphery Demographic:
  • Despite being an alternative rock band with angsty songs that seem to be more directed at teens and young adults, they collected a large 'tween' audience during the late 2000s/early 2010s, most likely due to them releasing a song for The Twilight Saga.
  • They also have an enormous African-American fandom, to the point that there is a podcast called Black People Love Paramore that's all about various things that are popular among Black people that one wouldn't normally expect — and yes, Hayley Williams has appeared on it. In the late '10s and early '20s, many Black musicians like Lil Uzi Vert, Rico Nasty, and Princess Nokia cited Paramore as a direct influence on their style.
• Signature Song: Hard to pinpoint one exactly. "Misery Business" is the song that first got them noticed and likely the most associated with the band itself, though "The Only Exception" and "Ain't it Fun" proved to be their most enduringly popular and best represent their contrasting musical moods and styles (sweet love songs and more bittersweet, rocking uplift). Ironically, of the three, only "Ain't It Fun" hasn't been disowned by the band, although Hayley's sentiment toward "The Only Exception" has changed again by 2023. To a lesser extent, "Hard Times" also counts.
• Song Association: "Decode" with the Twilight film.
• Spiritual Successor: The band makes "In The Mourning" a "sequel" of sorts to Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," going so far as to use the same guitar riff and melody. Hayley even interwove "Landslide" lyrics into this song during one of their concerts.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The vast majority of the fan base reacted positively to the mild Genre Shift of Brand New Eyes, and many consider it to be their best album. However, there are a few people who consider it to be too poppy...
  • ...which continued with their self-titled fourth album, which had an even stronger Genre Shift towards pop. Some people hated "Still Into You" because it was too happy.
  • After Laughter only continued the transition from pop punk/rock to New Wave-ish pop; while many critics and fans adored the transition, the album further alienated those who preferred their original sound.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: They're not officially Teen Pop but were/are very popular amongst tweens and young teens, especially due to Twilight. One of their first hit singles, "Misery Business", is an angry rant against a woman with an emphasis on explicit Slut-Shaming.

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