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"Standing onstage last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, Hayley Williams told a capacity crowd that she&amp;#x2019;d been yearning for nearly a year to say the words she was about to say.&amp;#xA0;\r\nHer big reveal? &amp;quot;We are Paramore.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nWilliams was leading the pop-punk band through its first show since last September, a sold-out warm-up gig before Paramore heads to the U.K. for a handful of dates including the Reading and Leeds festivals. And though part of her excitement was probably attributable to cabin fever &amp;#x2013; she and her bandmates have been working in a Los Angeles studio on Paramore&amp;#x2019;s fourth album &amp;#x2013; Williams also was acknowledging the break-up rumors that have swirled around the group since late 2010, when guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro left in a storm of accusations regarding the band&amp;apos;s direction and authenticity. &amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Our band has been a little bit of a soap opera since day one,&amp;quot; Williams went on. Then she introduced &amp;quot;Ignorance&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; a cut from 2009&amp;#x2019;s Brand New Eyes about a judgmental friend (or bandmate) &amp;#x2013; as &amp;quot;a reminder of how it&amp;#x2019;s never, ever going to be again.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nBacked by three touring musicians on guitars, keyboards and drums, Williams, guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis used their 90-minute set to prove that all the drama hasn&amp;#x2019;t weakened Paramore&amp;#x2019;s live punch. They opened with a muscular rendition of Brand New Eyes&amp;#x2019; &amp;quot;Brick by Boring Brick&amp;quot; and set off a sea of pumping fists in &amp;quot;That&amp;#x2019;s What You Get,&amp;quot; from 2007&amp;#x2019;s breakthrough Riot! Later, Williams whipped her bright-orange hair during Paramore&amp;#x2019;s first single, &amp;quot;Pressure,&amp;quot; which also inspired Davis to do a kind of backflip over York. After &amp;quot;Careful&amp;quot; the singer took a seat at center stage and admitted between gulps of air, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x2019;m 23, but it feels like I&amp;#x2019;m 63. It&amp;#x2019;s been awhile!&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nBeyond the old stuff &amp;#x2013; including the Twilight hit &amp;quot;Decode&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Monster,&amp;quot; from last year&amp;#x2019;s Transformers: Dark of the Moon &amp;#x2013; Paramore played three tunes recently released as part of an online singles club. &amp;quot;Renegade&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Hello Cold World&amp;quot; hewed closely to the band&amp;#x2019;s signature sound, but the stripped-down &amp;quot;In the Mourning&amp;quot; showed off a newly soulful streak in Williams&amp;#x2019; singing; she even threw in a bit of Fleetwood Mac&amp;#x2019;s &amp;quot;Landslide,&amp;quot; as if to indicate the maturity Paramore has come into over the last two years. &amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;We&amp;#x2019;re so humbled and grateful for your support,&amp;quot; Williams told the audience at one point in the show, and the band&amp;#x2019;s fans reaffirmed that devotion with a roar.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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