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\n\tIt started at Warped Tour<\/a> 2005. Five teens from Franklin, Tennessee thrashing around a scrappy, makeshift stage on a flatbed truck with unabashed confidence and emotion-packed songs. At the center was a beacon, sporting a graphic t-shirt and auburn hair, with a voice that pierced through all the noise. This was Paramore<\/a>\u2019s first Warped Tour appearance, and that voice belonged to lead singer Hayley Williams<\/a>, a fire-cracker of a performer amidst the festival\u2019s black-clad parade of dejected boys.<\/p>\n \n\tIn retrospect, it\u2019s crazy to think that Paramore, one of the biggest bands to come out of the pop-punk and emo scene, was once relegated to the female-only Warped Tour stage known as the Shiragirl stage, far from main stage acts like Fall Out Boy <\/a>and My Chemical Romance<\/a>, who would soon be their peers in the pop-rock mainstream. \u201cAs a 16-year-old who had dreams of playing with the big boys, it felt like we were being slighted,\u201d Williams told Vulture<\/em><\/a> in 2020. For Paramore, that just meant they had to rock harder. \u201cI would spit farther, yell louder, and thrash my neck wilder than anyone,\u201d Williams added in the same interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAnd that she did. The way Williams commanded the tiny, pink-bannered stage was a turning point for the emo genre, and would prove to have a ripple effect beyond the confines of that scene. Here was this teen girl showing she could rock amongst the best of the scene with powerhouse vocals and great songs to match. It shouldn\u2019t have been a phenomenon, but at that time of peak misogyny, it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhile most people heard of Paramore because of their breakout 2007 LP Riot!<\/a><\/em>, it was All We Know Is Falling <\/em>that served as their introduction to a generation of fans on that vital first Warped Tour run. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of Paramore\u2019s sharp debut, which laid the foundation for everything the band would become. (To celebrate, Paramore has just released a deluxe version of the album, which includes the first-ever digital release of their 2006 B-sides EPThe Summer Tic<\/em>.)<\/p>\n