Paramore Digipaks

All We Know Is Falling (released 24th April 2006)

Uses a Photo-shopped photograph. The brightness and contrast of colours has been increased, and stars added to the sky, but not as heavily photo-shopped as some album covers in the punk pop rock genre.

The main focus of the cover seems to be the red sofa, and the ‘Paramore’ above.

Riot (released 25th June 2007)

The main and biggest word draws attention by being orange/red in colour which fits with Hayley’s unique hair colour at the time, and a lot of their videos take this colour scheme.

‘Paramore’ is written within the cover, but doesn’t draw as much attention. It says ‘Paramore’ on the left of the cover.

Uses Artwork

Brand New Eyes (28th September 2009)

This cover also uses artwork. The first album cover uses a photograph, but then artwork for the second and third albums, so they must have thought it worked better. They are all quite abstracts and random designs, but often the design is used within the music videos as well, as in Misery Business the ‘Riot’ where the design is used all over the backdrop in the performance section which helps promote the album.

The cover from the ‘Brand New Eyes’ album, has a picture of a butterfly which has had its wings taken off links with the video for the song ‘Brick by Boring Brick’ which is in the album, as it contains a younger version Hayley Williams wearing fairy wings which she takes off in the end, and links with the lyrics ‘ripping wings off butterflies’. Also butterflies fly past the screen throughout. This song is essentially about growing up, and throughout their albums you can tell they are growing up, as the first cover doesn’t really show much about then, then ‘Riot’ seems to show their teenage rebellious and fun personality, whereas ‘Brand New Eyes’ seems a lot more grown up and calm in comparison. None of them show a picture of the band themselves, although they have released posters which show photos or heavily photo-shopped photos which are blended into artwork. They usually use only one colour per design, with their first album having the red sofa, the second album having the orang/red 'Riot!' and their third album having the yellow butterfly. These colour schemes also link with the colours they tend to dress in, hayley's hair colour, and the main colours and occasionally the tint on the lighting of the music video. The font on all 3 albums is also the same.