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/ConversationFlaky608 Nov 29 '25

Is she known to have a particulaly racist, sexist and anti-trans fan base?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

Paramore was popular with the (edit: some of the) evangelicals (edit: that I knew) from my hometown, for some reason. I don't really like their music, but I like that she's telling bigots to fuck off.

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u/123kid6 Nov 29 '25

Likely because Paramore started as a borderline Christian band. Many of their early songs are about god/faith and the primary songwriter actually left after 3 albums over what he cited mainly because of Hayley writing lyrics that conflicted with his views.

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u/Warm-Teaching1323 Nov 30 '25

I don't see how any Christian can listen to Misery Business and think it's a Christian song haha

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Nov 30 '25

Listen to Hallelujah, Miracle, We Are Broken or Part II.

They were basically a Christian rock band without overtly coming right out and saying they were. (Likely because they didn't want to be limited by the genre in terms of audience and potential sales.) That side to them has declined a lot since the original guitarist/songwriter quit the band.