Song · Paramore
“Monster” by Paramore
Released 2011
“Monster” by Paramore appears on 13 radio countdowns from 13 stations in 2011. It was first released in 2011. Its best result is #9 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #76 alternative song of 2011 and #337 of the '10s.
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"Monster" was the first Paramore song without Josh and Zac Farro, who had parted ways with the band in 2010, and it arrived as a download on June 7, 2011, the second single from the Transformers: Dark of the Moon soundtrack that followed a week later. Hayley Williams and Taylor York wrote it, York played the drums himself, and Rob Cavallo produced it with Williams, York and Jeremy Davis.
Williams aims the lyric so squarely at someone in the second person that MTV's James Montgomery figured the song was about the departed Farros. Billboard's Jon Blistein heard grunge in its loud-soft swings, big vocals and crunching guitars, and Entertainment Weekly found it a little sludgier than their usual fare. It won Choice Rock Track at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards and went gold in the US in 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck in 2011 | 10 |
| 2011 | 60 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 | 102 |
| 2011 | 46 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 | 99 |
| 2011 | 81 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 | 98 |
| 2011 | 81 | 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA | 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 | 89 |
| 2011 | 65 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 of 2011 | 97 |
| 2011 | 48 | KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA | KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 | 92 |
| 2011 | 83 | 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY | 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 | 94 |
| 2011 | 70 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 | 94 |
| 2011 | 40 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 | 49 |
| 2011 | 50 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 | 94 |
| 2011 | 84 | Rock 93.5 Columbia, SC | Rock 93.5 WARQ Top 93 of 2011 | 92 |
| 2011 | 9 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 | 88 |
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