Asking Questions About Paramore

Paramore (Hayley Williams)

Is their audience what is presumed to be a traditional male-dominated, rock-and-roll audience or have they also significance for female fans?

Paramore, despite having a well-known female lead-singer, is actually more popular with males than with females (and a lot of this probably has to do with the femininity of the singer). One of the appeals of more modern pop-punk bands is the attractiveness of the singer, and female fans are much less likely to respond to an attractive female singer than they are a male. The females who respond to this band do so more out of praise and support for a woman who was able to break into an extremely male-dominated field, as female singers or even musicians in this genre of music are very few and far inbetween, if found at all.

What other kinds of demographic factors such as age, class or ethnicity shape their fan base?

The average interest age goes from the late teens to the eary twenties (basically high school to college). As moreso the hipsters and scenesters are attracted to the band, the class where most fans are found is middle to upper-middle (since these are basically the type of people who have the money and interest to be hipsters in the first place). The ethnicity of Paramore fans is mostly white since local scenes (where Paramore was originally spread) are mostly white, though they have also found a small foothold in small pockets of the black community due to radio and TV exposure.