Tour Diary, Part 4: “Playing To Paramore's Biggest Fans, in Jakarta .

For 3 years, I`ve been told that the biggest Paramore fans in the universe are in Jakarta, Indonesia. My Twitter was constantly inundated with messages and mentions (every day for Three YEARS) from people there who were begging us to come. It never seemed to fit into our touring schedule, and meanwhile, all our friends had played multiple shows in Indonesia and raved about it.

We kept bugging our booking agents to give it pass and I think they finally got sick of hearing our whiney voices.

We made it official earlier this class when we proclaimed the evidence in a video update on our website. You would`ve thought that it rained gold coins or something the way our fans reacted. Around 6,000 people showed up for the ticket pre-sale. What?! If that weren`t enough, the impresario of the point decided to put on this big festival in our honor. He was all, "We shall visit it Parafest." The mind was for it to feel like a pre-concert concert.

So at this Paramore Festival - it almost sounds silly! - they held a conflict of the bands, a graffiti art competition as good as other games where you could win meet and greets for our show; they even had musical fireworks! We should speak about these fireworks_

Earlier this summer, I was sitting up late one night when I came across a picture from the festival. I had heard that they were passing to be having it but wasn`t sure when or what it was leaving to be like. The picture had this still picture of fireworks in the air before you pressed play so I now became a six-year-old at a 4th of July barbecue. I watched the whole thing twice and I cried like a child the second time. The fireworks were perfectly timed with our song "Careful." What an interesting choice that they picked one of our heavier, darker songs to do the present to! It really hit me hard. The whole time I was watching all I could remember about were the things we`d been through last year;how I wished that all 5 of us could have been watching that fireworks show together, because when we started the ring we never believed anything like this could ever happen. Here were these amazing people all the way across the world we`d never met before, and they knew our songs and who we were and they cared. We`re blessed.

Now, the trio of us have finally taken the point in Jakarta and witnessed with our own eyes what our Indonesian fans had been telling us all along. The gang was more passionate and aggressively into it than just about anywhere we`ve been. A kid came on stage during "Misery Business" and two-stepped with me! He was smiling so big and had his arm round my neck like we were old friends. The way those people made us look on that point was beyond comprehension. There was something awful in the air and it wasn`t the weird smell coming from catering.

I couldn`t say or type enough about our experience in Jakarta. What I will say is this: it won`t be another six days before we go back.