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Papa Roach is great, but Paramore is the best, vote now!

'It looks awesome,' frontwoman Hayley Williams says of new cover art.

By now, you've probably seen the cover of Paramore's upcoming Brand New Eyes album (and if you haven't, well, here), which very artfully depicts a freshly dissected butterfly.

It's a pretty striking (and strikingly pretty) image, so, on the same day we spoke to Paramore about the title of their new record, we decided to ask them to tell us the story behind that butterfly too. Turns out — like pretty much everything on Eyes — there's a personal connection.

"The cover is actually a butterfly I found in my driveway one day, and it was huge and really gorgeous and we clipped its wings off and pinned its body and its wings up to the fence in my backyard," frontwoman Hayley Williams said. "I've had [it] forever in this box in my mom's house. And we all liked the idea of ripping the wings off a butterfly, because it's in the lyrics of 'Brick By Boring Brick.' "

Of course, that begs the question: Did they rip the wings off the thing while it was still fluttering?

"It was already dead," Williams said.

"No animals were harmed in the making of this record," bassist Jeremy Davis laughed.

Of course, the image of the butterfly only extends the implicit message on this album, one born out of intense inter-band struggles and battles with self-doubt: that divided, nothing — not love, relationships or a band — can survive; but united, anything is possible.

"I really feel like the theme of the whole record is really self-explanatory. I don't think anyone is going to have a problem understanding exactly what we're talking about, or relating our situation to them," Williams said. "Even if they're not in a band [that's] touring and traveling. That's why the image works ... it's a really cool representation of those themes. It looks awesome."

Paramore's Blog:

Hope everyone enjoyed the special Paramore video yesterday!

We are happy to officially announce “brand new eyes”, Paramore’s third studio album on Fueled By Ramen, will be available everywhere on September 29, 2009. “brand new eyes” was produced by Rob Cavallo and co-produced by Paramore.

All preorders begin on July 7th right here at paramore.net! The digital single for “Ignorance” will also be available on July 7th at all digital service providers. If that weren’t enough, we’ll also be offering the new ringtone for “Ignorance” exclusively for sale here on paramore.net on July 7th too.

paramore
brand new eyes
09.29.09

1. Careful
2. Ignorance
3. Playing God
4. Brick by Boring Brick
5. Turn It Off
6. The Only Exception
7. Feeling Sorry
8. Looking Up
9. Where the Lines Overlap
10. Misguided Ghosts
11. All I Wanted


PS: Check out Paramore's new album cover on our 'Paramore albums' photo album.