Earlier this week (April 20), the musician posted a screengrab of a series of messages from the group’s drummer, Zac Farro. Throughout the conversation, the pair appear to reflect on the number of albums they’ve released to date, with Williams’ caption reading: “We! are! getting oooooold!”
The image also includes a message reading “paramore 6”, suggesting that a sixth studio album could be on the way.
The new record would be the first full-length release from the band since 2017’s acclaimed
After Laughter. Williams previously teased the move away from solo material, and back to making music with the band, in a February Twitter post, responding to a fan asking if there are songs that didn’t make it onto
In his 2010 book
Role Models, John Waters dedicates an entire section to Rei Kawakubo, whom he deems the “genius fashion dictator”. For the last 20 years or so, the director’s own look has been “disaster at the dry cleaners” – meaning he likes his clothing to come a little off-kilter. Torn, crooked, ill-fitting, thread-bare. The kind of post-atomic irregularities which have come to define Kawakubo’s approach to fashion. “I was amazed at the gall and the wit of the Japanese clothing designs. Many pieces looked fresh out of the sale bin at the Purple Heart thrift shop in Baltimore,” Waters says of his first encounter with Comme at the brand’s store in New York back in the 70s. Safe to say he has been obsessed ever since. Later, Kawakubo recruited Waters to open her AW92 show in Paris, leaving the gobby director uncharacteristically tongue-tied. “Whatever courage I had managed to work up vanished instantly, but she gave me a severe pat of confidence and shoved me
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