On their new albums, both out Friday, Williams and Steinfeld branch out in search of equality and plain personhood as a woman, but one has a head start in finding originality in intimacy.
By Natalie Weiner There’s not an obvious reason to compare the music of Hayley Williams and Hailee Steinfeld, besides the fact that they are both pop musicians (in the broadest sense of the term), and they share a name (albeit with conveniently different spellings).
More concerning is that it would be easy to see this as just one more instance of the media comparing women in music who have little in common besides their gender: as we all should know well by now, gender is not a genre.
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