By Hayley Williams' own admission, Ignorance was the song that saved Paramore from splitting up.
In early 2009, some 18 months after the release of their second album Riot!, tensions were running high as they worked on their next album at Green Day and My Chemical Romance producer Rob Cavallo's Lightning Sound Studios at his home in Hidden Hills, California.
The song was written after a particularly stressful day in their practise space in Franklin, Tennessee. Feeling the pressure from delivering a worthy follow-up to their breakthrough album, the five members were not seeing eye-to-eye.
