In a brand new interview, Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams pressed again on the emo nostalgia craze and steered that the early punk scene she got here up in wasn’t all it was cracked as much as be.
Remembering the period from what she skilled, the Paramore vocalist additionally mentioned suggestive onstage feedback that she mentioned had been as soon as made by NOFX bandleader “Fat” Mike Burkett.
When Paramore performed the nostalgia-driven music pageant When We Were Young this previous October, as Billboard identified, Williams advised the group that the scene had not at all times been a secure place “if you were different, if you were a young woman, if you were a person of color, if you were queer. And that’s really fucked up if you think about it, because this was supposed to be the safe place, wasn’t it?”
She shared related ideas in a letter earlier than the fest. In the previous, Fat Mike has come below hearth for onstage banter. NOFX as soon as apologized for onstage feedback.
“We don’t want to be a nostalgia band,” William tells Billboard now. “But I think what I felt was a mixture of vindication and also a lot of anger. I was really surprised that I had so much anger well up in me because I was like, ‘Wait a minute. They’re treating us like a prize now.'”
She provides, “But like, Fat Mike used to tell people that I gave good rim jobs onstage when I was 19 years old. I do not think that that’s punk. I don’t think that’s the essence of punk. And I feel strongly that without young women, people of color and also the queer community, I just think we would still be where we were then.”
In the current, the Paramore figurehead defined how she feels the scene’s significance lies within the followers that made the music such motion within the first place.
“Everyone’s just trying to remember better days, and I’m sitting there like, ‘They weren’t that much better,'” Williams says. “It felt like justification to be able to have the mic and to be one of the last bands that played.”
She continues, “We hung out with My Chem[ical Romance] a few minutes before we went on the last weekend, and I think they feel very similarly about how they were received. What it comes down to is that the fans are the ones with the power because otherwise, us and My Chem wouldn’t have been headlining that thing. And I think that’s beautiful.”
Read the complete in-depth Billboard function on Paramore, which delves into their writing and recording course of, rising up collectively within the highlight and extra.
When We Were Young 2023 takes place this October. Paramore sixth LP, This Is Why, arrives Feb. 10. Get Paramore live performance tickets right here. NOFX lately launched Double Album and can begin their “Final Tour” this yr. Hear each bands’ newest singles beneath.
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