Hayley Williams on Puking Up 'Ain't It Fun' and Paramore's Next LP — rollingstone.com

It's been more than a year since Paramore released their self-titled fourth album, a long-playing, sonically ambitious effort that was as much a reboot (their first LP as a three-piece) as it was a risk: There weren't many major-label rock bands releasing four-sided, 17-track, hour-plus records (complete with "interludes," strings and choirs) in 2013. Yet, Paramore has become a slow-burning success, the band's first album to produce two platinum-selling singles, "Still Into You" and "Ain't It Fun," the latter of which has become a crossover smash, a staple on Billboard's Rock Songs chart, the Adult Top 40 and the all-encompassing Hot 100. Six months after it was released as a single, "Fun" is not only Paramore's set-closing standard, it may very well be the song of the summer. And its success has reinvigorated a band that, less than four years ago, was on the brink of collapse.

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