Hayley Williams is the host of a new podcast charting the history of emo, the much maligned genre her band Paramore are a key part of.
Everything Is Emo is available exclusively via the BBC Sounds app and will run for 20 episodes as Williams traces the earliest stages of the music scene through to its modern day revival. "Not long ago, people started calling me a “veteran” of my scene and of the music industry," Williams said in a statement. "It sounds so funny to me because most of the time I still feel like a fan.
The serious truth is I have, in fact, grown up in this scene for the last two decades. I guess that’s a pretty long time. I’m really excited to have the opportunity to publicly nerd out about bands and songs that make my favourite subgenre feel like home to me.
And while it will be fun to take some trips down memory lane, I’m just as excited, if not more, to play music from new artists I’m discovering all the time.
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