No Friend

Album: After Laughter (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the first Paramore song without Hayley Williams on vocals. Instead, Aaron Weiss of MewithoutYou delivers a spoken word monologue which explores the band's bittersweet story with a plethora of references from across Paramore's whole back catalog. Weiss is backed by Taylor York and Zac Farro's dark transposition of the "Idle Worship" riff. Hayley Williams said:

    "There's nice storytelling and also he was also very sweet in his writing. He picked up lines from Paramore songs and strung them through and made it about our story."
  • Hayley Williams is good friends with the post-hardcore band MewithoutYou. She appeared on their 2010 album Ten Stories as a guest vocalist on "Fox's Dream of The Log Flume" and "All Circles."

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