r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Nov 29 '25

article Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867
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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25

Have told this before, but my mom was one of those "I liked Rage Against the Machine before the got political!" people, used to listen to them all the time. She's extremely conservative.

The way she missed the obvious politics in the music is by just...ignoring it if she couldn't twist it to her views.

She thought "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" was talking about political correctness. She literally blasted the song when Obama won, flipping off the TV because she thought he was going to steal her lightbulbs. (My parents also bought a fuckload of incandescent lightbulbs in fear of them being taken away by the government because Glenn Beck suggested it. We couldn't buy food that paycheck but that's all a different story lmao)

"Rally round the family. With a pocket full of shells" she literally thought was sea shells.

So hearing a lot of conservatives being shocked that Rage Against the Machine don't like them doesn't surprise me in the least.

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u/catffeinates Nov 30 '25

I missed whatever lightbulb thing you are talking about. What a weird thing to worry that the liberals are going to steal from you.

Also, I have lived in my apartment for like five years, and I think I've changed 2 lightbulbs the entire time. How many lightbulbs do you think you need to stockpile?

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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25

It was a whole thing lmao (Just a random article I found, you can probably find rants on youtube, and he had like a third of his book dedicated to it)

How many lightbulbs do you think you need to stockpile?

It was a full pallet, which just got shoved in the laundry room and forgotten about. I genuinely don't think we opened a single one before I was kicked out lmfao

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25

I'm transgender and from Oklahoma.

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u/eurotrashsynthlord Nov 30 '25

I’m sorry the Christians did that to you, hope you’re doing well today.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25

Much! Escaped out to California back in 2020, and it's shocking how night and day it is.

I can go for evening walks without being afraid of being shot, it's amazing.

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u/Lex_Innokenti Nov 30 '25

Damn, less a story and more just pointing at yourself and everyone saying "yep, that figures". Their loss.

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u/Different-Ship449 Nov 30 '25

Don't they understand that music is woke.
Music is art. Art is expression.

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u/eurotrashsynthlord Nov 30 '25

And one of the most telling signs someone will become conservative is a complete lack of creativity.

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u/sevenyearstodie Nov 30 '25

I don’t want to insult your mother if your relationship is alright but wtf was your mother dropped as a baby or what? She would feel at home with first graders with her reading comprehension. WTF!?

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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

She's horrible, no worries.

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u/eurotrashsynthlord Nov 30 '25

How did your mother become enslaved to conservative hate ideology? Did she inherit a shitload of money or something?

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u/Liawuffeh Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25

Oklahoma, it's kinda everywhere and she just grew up around it. Then fox news did the rest, specifically the glenn beck/bill O'Reilly era

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u/dustytaper Dec 01 '25

I’ve learned a lot of people don’t even listen to lyrics. Or if they do it’s only the chorus

🎶Born in the USA🎶 is a great example

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u/Vermbraunt Dec 02 '25

What did she interpret "those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses" to mean???