letsfightcrime asked: Are you still planning on putting this book together in light of what Josh has said?
I believe so, yes :)
I think once everything calms down, the band and Josh + Zac will talk things over. Even if they don’t, we’re still going ahead.
Regardless of everything, they still deserve a proper goodbye.
ladyfartface asked: With all this happening right now, how are you gonna give the book if they are not in good terms with the rest of the band (hayley, jeremy, & taylor)?. You said that your gonna past it to FBR then to remaining paramore members,
Do you get my point?
Yes, I know what you mean.
Obviously right now know one really knows what’s going on.
If there are problems between Zac/Josh and Hayley/Jeremy/Taylor then we’ll contact FBR and ask them to pass on the book personally. I highly doubt they’ve cut all ties with the two just yet - they’ll be people working there who’re still friends.
If not, then I shall bug Jenna (: She updates her blog a lot, and I’m sure I can find a way to contact her one way or another.
However, I would NOT believe this yet.
Considering that both Jenna and Josh linked to this blog from their blog and facebook respectively, I’m not too sure what to believe right now.
I think I’m going to wait for either a) a statement from Kerrang (because they are the trustworthy site) or b) a statement from someone on paramore.net
It’ll be a while until we find out the truth, as it’s currently bedtime in America.
Just saying: this is not turning into a news blog XD
ps: keep sending all your letters, photos etc in :)
crossing-wires-deactivated20120 asked: I think what you guys are doing is absolutely lovely. :)
Hopefully, they get the book.
Working on a drawing for it right now :3 xx
thank you! :)
yeah, i hope they do too!
ahh, that’s awesome, thank you :D <3 xx
Before you read this blog, read this statement.
As of yet, this statement appears to be true. It was linked from Josh’s real, personal facebook, and from Jenna’s blog, so we have no reason to believe it is fake. Unfortunately.
Personally, I believe that Josh could have worded this a little differently to not push so much of the blame onto Hayley. I understand his point of view and such, but already I have seen a large amount of people turn against Paramore, and that’s upset me.
However, my view has pretty much been summed up by a person’s comment on Jenna’s blog:
1. The Hayley Show
People talk about Paramore being “all about Hayley” all the time. I find it hard to listen to because we love every band member equally, but here’s the facts from the statement.
- I’m sure that the record label did try and get Hayley alone. She’s extremely talented. But you have to realize first that Front Women rock bands were pretty uncommon at the time they were signing. The record label probably didn’t see any potential for Paramore as a full out band, it’s a miracle Hayley stuck to her guns and decided not to just quit on everybody. Even when the record label tried to fire all of the guys but keep Hayley they came back with stronger music. I think it would have been easy for Hayley to decide that she should just go solo, but she didn’t.
- Hayley’s family. I don’t think Hayley’s family wanting her to go solo is nessesarily her fault. Sure, her Dad might have been mean to the band members, but that doesn’t make Hayley herself some sort of evil person.
2. The breakups
- I wasn’t surprised that Jeremy had been kicked out before RIOT was recorded, really. He did quit once before, after all. I love Jeremy, I really do, but if you looked at it through the band’s eyes I’m sure it must have caused some controversy to let him back in TWICE. It’s pretty obvious something big like that had to happen for Paramore to consider breaking up, even on top of Hayley and Josh’s breakup.
- Hayley and Josh’s breakup. I’ll admit, it pissed me off a tad bit to see Josh talk about Hayley so awfully when he DID date her, once. Surely he didn’t hate her so furociously for 7 years, he must have really liked her at SOME point for them to have been dating for so long.
3. Brand New Eyes
- The bible stuff made me a little bit upset. Christianity is a religion, it’s not your entire life. To be upset because a song was “against” a bible verse just doesn’t register as something that’s logical in my mind. However, I do understand that for someone as religious as Josh it would be considered upsetting.
4. All the years
I think that the entire blog is really dark and upsetting. It seems like they ignored the fact that they MUST have been happy at some point, why else would they do this for 7 years? From the way things are written it seems like they were never happy. So why would they stay if they were never happy? It seems a bit biased to me, I’m sure it was because they’re obviously upset.
In the end, I’m sure Hayley taylor and Jeremy will have something to say about this. I’m a little worried that there may be some “war” so to speak, and I sincerely doubt that the Farros will ever be really true friends with the other band members as well.
In the final analysis, I think that because this IS one side of the story, it IS biased. Don’t get your knickers in a twist yet, okay? I agree with some of the things that were said and disagree with others. Is it hard to read and is it difficult to think that all this could have happened? Yes. Is Hayley suddenly evil? No.
Don’t judge the full story until you hear both sides. Don’t send hate mail. Don’t quit the fan base. Do, however, send eternal support to Paramore, past, future, and present.
There’s so much more I could write about this, but I believe I’ll save my own opinion for my personal blog. However, I do not believe these past seven years are Hayley’s fault, and if any fan thinks this and no longer supports Paramore because of that blog, then you weren’t a very good fan in the first place.
I will say this: the blog is going to cause a whole load of drama now, which will last for a time.
I support Paramore. I support Hayley Williams. I support Josh Farro. I support Jeremy Davis. I support Taylor York. I support Zac Farro. My opinions of these five have not changed. There has obviously been a lot of struggle since they started, but I believe Josh has completely ignored the good bits. And there WAS good bits, otherwise he would not have stayed with Paramore for SEVEN years.
That is all :3
Mia <3
brighter24 asked: Hey, I just sent you an email of a "note" I wrote the day I found out the Farros were leaving. It would be awesome if you could use that :) Thanks heaps!
yup, we have it on the account :)
thank you! <3
Anonymous asked: For ages now Paramore has been a really big part of my life. You guys were the band I could listen to no matter what my mood and always feel amazing afterwards. I remember when I bought All We Know Is Falling and sat up until like 6am listening to it on repeat, then the same with Riot! Then when I came and saw you guys live, I didn't sleep the night before! It was the best day of my life I swear. Topped off by the fact my friend and I got to meet you guys, you two posed for a photo for us pulling these weird faces, it was legendary. Paramore is an amazing band and thank you so much for making it so, it really means a lot to everyone. I hope you know how much you'll be missed and how well everyone wishes you in whatever you decide to do next. I wish you hadn't left, just as I'm sure everyone else does, but you must have your reasons and we respect those. Thank you once again, for helping to make Paramore what it was and is and for just being you.
I'll send as an email too :).
that’s lovely!
thank you very much for the email! <3
allweknowisparawhores asked: I kindly recommended you :) I think it's great what you are doing. Really cool idea. We all love Josh and Zac soo much ♥
thank you! :) and thank you again xD. exactly why we came up with it! they deserve a proper goodbye <3
chanandlerb0ng asked: I'll be sending one in for sure. I really hope these books go to Australia. i'd love to see them on the shelves at book stores and all c:
You guys are doing a great thing <3
waitwaitwait, what do you mean?! we’re making one huge book to send to fueled by ramen, who’ll hopefully pass it onto zac + josh :)
and thank you <3
lostinhayleysstereo asked: Dear Zac and Josh Farro,
Me and my friend are really sad to hear about you two leaving Paramore, but because we respect you so much, we also respect your choices. Even though it broke our hearts. We both wish you all the best of luck in the future, and good luck with your new band. We love you both so much! I think everyone still does! <3
Lots and lots of love, Mia and Ella! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
that’s lovely! :) thank you <3
can you also email it to zacandjoshbook@hotmail.co.uk please so we don’t lose it <3
thisisnevergonnabesomething asked: can i send something that i wrote about them when theyre leaving? like my feeling? will you edit it? or what?
yup, you can :) and nope, we won’t edit them at all!
email it to zacandjoshbook@hotmail.co.uk :)
Kat informed me last night that she has finished the front cover for the book :D I haven’t seen it, but she’s the most beautifully artistic person I know, so I can assure you that it’ll look freaking awesome.
We’ve had a lot of letters emailed, and some fan photos/live photos. We’d love to have some more live photos, meet and greet photos (ones of the whole band as well would be awesome), fan art (hand drawn especially; either scan it in or post it to us!), funny quotes, more letters (‘cause everyone should send a letter ;D), pictures of yourself holding a message etc and anything else you can think of!
ALL entries for the book MUST be emailed to zacandjoshbook@hotmail.co.uk by the 30TH JANUARY 2011 so we can then sort through everything and begin making the book. In England, we have a week off in February (Fri 18th - Mon 28th) and in that week we aim to finish the book and send it off.
If you have any questions, then please either contact us on here, the official twitter (@zacandjoshbook) or our personal twitters (@MiadayA7X / @cheshirekatt_). Anything you need can be found in the information section of our blog.
Thank you all for participating in this! :D
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Last night (18/12/10), Hayley, Tay and Jeremy announced that Zac and Josh are leaving/have left Paramore. We have decided to make a book, and send it too Fueled By Ramen.
Please feel free to contact us via Twitter, (our personal accounts, or the one we made specifically for this), via this Tumblr, or the email account;zacandjoshbook@hotmail.co.uk
If you want to post anything, contact us through the email.
We will accept any photos, letters, fan-art, quotes, and any other entries you would like to be in the book. We will not accept anything negative.
Our aim is to create this book to remind the two brothers that we, as fans, will always support them, and to give them a proper goodbye. Once the book is completed - hopefully within two months - we will send it off to America, for Fueled by Ramen to pass onto the remaining members of Paramore, and then hopefully to be passed onto Zac and Josh!
@cheshirekatt_ & @MiadayA7X
http://twitter.com/zacandjoshbook
http://zacandjoshbook.tumblr.com
DEADLINE TO SEND ENTRIES IN IS JANUARY 30TH 2011! We may extend the deadline depending on the weather, and if several people still need to send stuff in.
bewareofparamore asked: quotes.
zac: people have their own ideas about life. If you want water, they want water.
Taylor: Tap or filtered water?
Zac: Sparkling, actually. Funny you ask.
thank you m’love! could you also email it to zacandjoshbook@hotmail.co.uk so we don’t lose it :D <3
arcticlights asked: not a question, but quotes for the book:
zac: taylor and i don't like scary movies.
taylor: we like cereal.
josh: We’ve been super good looking from the start, I don’t understand why people are only starting to realize now
zac: My name is Blue and I like Zac
thank you! you emailed them as well, right? ‘cause i just read these in an email XD
thank you again! <3
We’ve already had a bunch of letters and a few live photos emailed to us :)
However, if anyone has any fan art, quotes, meet and greet photos (one’s of the whole band are fine), live photos etc, then please send them to us!
<3
