Paramore: Live at Sound Academy — Renegade

This is the video I took of Paramore at Sound Academy on May 13, performing "Renegade." This is my favourite song from their Singles Club EP, which came out during what I refer to as Paramore's "dark period." The four songs with this boxset were the only new music they released in the four years between their third and fourth (and latest) album. They wrote all the songs for this EP during a really turbulent time in their career, when the Farro brothers (two of the founding members of Paramore) had left the band and wrote a long letter that they released online publicly attacking Hayley Williams — an event that was widely publicized and caused the remaining members of Paramore to address live on MTV. The lyrics of this song are sort of Hayley's commentary on the whole debacle, like "this is who I am and I don't need you anymore." And if Paramore's huge success right now is any indication, they really are better without them and this song now merely acts as a huge middle finger up to the Farro brothers.