Hayley Williams: Last News

Hayley Williams of Paramore performed a cover of Deana Carter’s ‘Did I Shave My Legs For This?’ at Love Rising, a Nashville fundraiser for LGBTQIA+ organisations.The show saw Willams team up with singer-songwriter Becca Mancari on guitar to perform ‘Inordinary’ taken from her solo album ‘Flowers for Vases / descansos‘. She then welcomed her best friend and business partner Brian O’Connor who came out dressed in full drag ready to sing ‘Did I Shave My Legs For This?’.The event was created by members of Tennessee’s music community after responding to the series of bills Tennessee recently passed targeting the state’s LGBT population – attempting to pose restrictions on things like drag shows and transgender treatment and surgery for minors.“What they’re doing with this anti-drag bill… is actually just a distraction from all these other horrible things that they’re trying to pass here — it feels like we’re in a relationship with our city and our state that’s all give, no get,” Williams told the crowd.Last month, Williams spoke out to decry the legislation.

Maren Morris isn’t backing down.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A cast of mostly Nashville-based stars, including Maren Morris, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Yola, Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell — plus one key out-of-towner, the Irishman Hozier — joined up with a host of Tennessee drag artists Monday night in Nashville to protest recent state legislation aimed at cross-dressing performers, trans youth and same-sex marriage. The four-hour “Love Rising” benefit, which filled Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with fans and LGBTQ+ community members and their allies, was also livestreamed to an international audience via the Veeps platform. No one received more of a hero’s welcome than Morris, who recently went out on a limb by standing up for trans youth and their families in a headline-making online debate with fellow country star Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Aldean, while most mainstream stars held their tongues. It was quickly evident that Morris has not turned into any shrinking violet as a result of the backlash she experienced from country fans on the right in the dust-up with the Aldeans, appearing on stage with a touch of androgyny in a look that combined legginess with formal black-tie. Morris performed her crossover hit “The Middle” while drag queen Alexia Noelle Paris accompanied her in an interpretive dance.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Love Rising” is looking to combat the deeply risible. Nashville-based musicians are coming together in a big way — a Bridgestone Arena-sized way — tonight for the show of that name, a benefit concert to raise awareness and funds for the LGBTQ community and its allies in the face of Tennessee legislation that is seen as targeting the rights of gay and trans people generally and drag performers specifically. The generously star-packed show is also being livestreamed internationally via the Veeps platform, with $14.99 tickets available here for a show that begins at 7:30 Nashville time, aka 8:30 ET/5:30 PT. The wide-ranging bill of rock, country, pop, indie and Americana performers includes Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Sheryl Crow, Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Yola, Brittany Howard, Hozier, Adeem the Artist, Julien Baker, Joy Oladokun, Jake Wesley Rogers and Mya Byrne, along with co-organizer Allison Russell. Late additions to the show since it was first announced include a greater contingent of non-binary and, yes, drag artists from Tennessee on top of the nationally known names.

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Hayley Williams has recalled contacting Taylor Swift for the first time, after Swift was criticised at the 2009 VMAs by Kanye West for beating Beyoncé to an award.The Paramore singer spoke to the crowd on the opening night of Swift’s US tour at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Paramore supported Swift last night (March 17) and will also perform tonight (March 18) at the same venue.She recounted the pair’s early interactions, explaining that it was Swift’s mother, Andrea, who wished the teenaged stars could form a supportive relationship due to the both being so young in the music industry.“I remember feeling like, ‘We’re so little, we’re so young,'” Williams recalled on stage of the period in the late ’00s.

During the second set of their performance Monday night at The Basement East in Nashville, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and James McNew donned drag outfits, The Tennessean reports. Though they didn’t openly mention the meaning behind their wardrobe change, it came amid nationwide public outcry over a new law signed into action by Tennessee governor Bill Lee earlier this month.

In the five years since her Reputation stadium tour in 2018, Taylor Swift has achieved a lot.

Paramore's Hayley Williams, plus Julien Baker, Brittany Howard, and Maren Morris are among the first names confirmed for Nashville's Love Rising, a live music event organized in response to Tennessee's ban on drag performances on public property. Other names confirmed for Love Rising include Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Brothers Osborne, Yola, Allison Russell, and more. The event takes place on March 20 with proceeds going toward LGBTQIA+ programs, services, and resources across Tennessee.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell and Brittany Howard are set to perform at an LGBTQ+ benefit concert in Tennessee.The show entitled Love Rising, which has been organised by Isbell and Alison Russell, will take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on March 20.Other acts on the bill include Hozier, Brothers Osborne, Amanda Shires, Julien Baker, Joy Oladokun, Yola, Jake Wesley Rogers, and Mya Byrne.Tickets for the show are on sale now and can be purchased here. You can view the full line-up below.The concert was set up in the wake of Tennessee passing Senate Bill 3 and House Bill 9, two pieces of legislation that ban drag performances from taking place on public property, as well as in any location where minors can be present.“As a queer, intersectional artist and mother, raising my child in Nashville, it’s important to me to support these wonderful Tennessee LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisations, working so hard to build bridges, reduce harm and promote equality for all Tennesseans,” Russell said in a statement via Consequence.“LGBTQIA+ contributions and creativity are foundational to every genre of modern song and arts performance.

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams has criticised two anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have been proposed for her home state of Tennessee.Legislation was passed on Thursday (February 23) which, if signed by the governor, will make Tennessee the first state to criminalise drag shows. The bill would make drag performances in front of children or in certain public spaces, including within 1,000 feet of a public park, school or church, illegal.

Paramore secure a third UK Number 1 album, and their first in a decade, with This Is Why.

Paramore have shared an accompanying music video for their ‘This Is Why’ track ‘Running Out of Time’.The Ivanna Borin-directed video begins with frontwoman Hayley Williams listless in a recording studio, before giant, anthropomorphic drums and a guitar begin to lurch towards her.Escaping into a guitar case, things only get more fantastical from there, with Williams and her bandmates traversing throughout an array of vividly colourful, surrealistic landscapes. Watch the video for ‘Running Out of Time’ below:‘Running Out of Time’ is the third track from Paramore’s new album to receive a music video.

Since their debut in the mid-00s, Paramore have grown in stature, now widely regarded as one of the pillars of the pop-punk explosion, and now one of its most widely beloved vanguards. 

Paramore have spoken to NME about how their hiatus after their 2017 album ‘After Laughter’ was “a necessary detour”.The band took a break following a global tour in 2018 which saw frontwoman Hayley Williams concentrate on her solo career, which saw her release two albums – ‘Petals For Armor’ and ‘Flowers for Vases / descansos’. Drummer Zac Farro also released two albums, ‘Natural Disguise’ and ‘Motif’, under his project Half Noise.Speaking about the band’s hiatus in this week’s Big Read cover interview, Williams said: “It was a necessary detour.

Looking at the Official Albums Chart midweeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled into a time machine and woken up in 2009.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Femme,” written and directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, has debuted a teaser and poster (below) ahead of its premiere Sunday in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. The film stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay. Anton is handling international sales. The film centers on Jules, whose life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack. But when he re-encounters his attacker, the deeply-closeted Preston, in a gay sauna, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Unrecognizable out of his wig and make-up, Jules infiltrates Preston’s life, and in doing so, discovers power in a different kind of drag.

A very big reason for Paramore to leave the house – their sixth studio album This Is Why is on course to claim the band their third UK Number 1 album, and first in nearly a decade.  

Paramore singer Hayley Williams slammed NOFX's Fat Mike for allegedly telling concert goers she 'gave good rim jobs' when she was just 19-years-old as she described her reluctance at returning to the emo scene in a wide-ranging interview with her band. Speaking with Billboard, Williams expressed apprehension at Paramore being considered a 'nostalgia band' amid troubling memories of the subculture - which included the inappropriate remarks Mike allegedly made about her on stage.'Everyone's just trying to remember better days, and I'm sitting there like, "They weren't that much better,"' she told Billboard. Paramore singer Hayley Williams slammed NOFX's Fat Mike for allegedly telling fans she 'gave good rim jobs' when she was just 19-years-old as she detailed her reluctance at returning to the 'emo scene' in a wide-ranging interview with her band Williams has been open about her grievances with the scene, even reminding fans about the injustices while performing at When We Were Young, a nostalgia festival in Las Vegas.At the time, Williams told audience members the emo movement was not safe 'if you were a young woman, if you were a person of color, if you were queer, and that's really f–ked up if you think about it because this was supposed to be the safe place, wasn't it?' 'We don't want to be a nostalgia band,' Williams told Billboard.

RELEASESMiley Cyrus has released new single ‘Flowers’. She announced earlier this week that her eighth studio album, ‘Endless Vacation’, will be out on 10 Mar.Paramore have released new single ‘C’est Comme Ça’. “I’m trying to get un-addicted to a survival narrative”, says vocalist Hayley Williams.

DEALSDirty Hit has extended its worldwide distribution deal with Universal Music’s Ingrooves. “I feel very grateful to Ingrooves and the wider UMG team for all the support and faith they have shown me over the years”, says Dirty Hit’s Jamie Oborne. “Our relationship is now in its twelfth year and I am very proud to continue building Dirty Hit with our day-one distribution partners”.Reservoir has signed a new publishing deal with songwriter-producer Leroy Clampitt for his future works.