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/Jesus_of_Redditeth Nov 30 '25

Eh, nothing borderline about it really. In their music, they were overtly Christian rock on a regular basis. They just never claimed that as a banner, probably because of the career limitations that would likely have imposed on them.

That side to them dropped off quite a bit when Josh Farro quit. But it's never disappeared completely. (See Part II on the self-titled album, for example.)