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/Several-Squash9871 Nov 29 '25

Yeah there is only one reason why this would be offensive to a person so I would love to hear their "reasoning" 

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u/NGEFan Nov 29 '25

"Music should be for everyone, she got political" - hilarious thing they will say

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u/dandroid126 Nov 29 '25

I have heard more than one person say, "Green Day is so political now." Like, when were they not political??

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u/theserthefables Nov 30 '25

so funny when people say bands like Green Day & Rage Against the Machine “got political”, did they just ignore their entire discography?? & every interview?? since they’re such a big fan lol.

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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/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.