This Is Why (song)
"This Is Why" is a song by American rock band Paramore, released as the lead single from their sixth studio album This Is Why, on September 28, 2022.[1] It was written by Hayley Williams, Taylor York, and Zac Farro and produced by Carlos de la Garza. The song was accompanied by its music video, released the same day.[2]
"This Is Why"
September 28, 2022
3:27
The song won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
Background[edit]
"This Is Why" was released on September 28, 2022.[1][2] It was the last song written for the album, at which point Williams was "tired of writing lyrics", although guitarist Taylor York convinced Williams and drummer Zac Farro to work on one "last idea". Williams stated that it "summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last three or four years" and thought that following the COVID-19 pandemic and "the impending doom of a dying planet", "that humans would have found it deep within themselves to be kinder or more empathetic or something".[2]
Music video[edit]
The music video was released the same day as the song, and was directed by Brendan Yates of the American punk band Turnstile and filmed in Malibu, California.[2] It depicts the band performing and "frolick[ing ...] in the Malibu wilderness, amid the grasses, against the blue sky, and [...] in the spare interiors of a house".[10]