“Running Out of Time” by Paramore

Paramore's "Running Out of Time" first surfaced in February 2023 on This Is Why, the band's sixth album, and Atlantic sent it out as the record's fourth single that May. Hayley Williams, Taylor York and Zac Farro wrote it early in the album's making, and Carlos de la Garza produced it, with Manny Marroquin on the mix.

Williams traced it to her own running battle with punctuality and to her friendship with Taylor Swift, and beneath the springy pop-rock and dance-rock surface it frets about bigger clocks: aging, death, friends drifting away. She sings lead, Farro drums and adds backing vocals, York plays guitar and Brian Robert Jones bass. The band premiered it at the Grand Ole Opry, and Ivanna Borin's video dropped Williams into an Alice in Wonderland world, with costumes, vintage Vivienne Westwood among them, that drew praise of their own.

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