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I love when we play acoustically on stage… When Taylor plays acoustic guitar, finger picks and all that, it’s like one of my favorite things. Especially because we all have energetic and like fun parts and all that but it’s just so soothing. It’s so nice. He’s so good at it.

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Paramore at When We Were Young Festival by Ryan Blewett (2022)

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The love of my life is Paramore, and those are my best friends, too.

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i know we've talked a lot about MCR and their rebellion against the nostalgia circle jerking of WWWY, but i think it's super important to consider it alongside hayley williams' speech, which happened around 20 minutes before MCR's set.

i think it's important because they were both fighting similar wars in the beginning. they were fighting to be respected in a genre that they were helping to catapult into the public consciousness. they were both treated like shit by their peers, villified by the media and disrespected by 'fans' in the scene, and only by prioritising their own creativity and art and by cultivating a fan base that appreciated it, did they manage to shake that shit off.

wwwy is a festival created for the sake of those looking to relive the emo days of yesterdecade. and that's fine. there's nothing wrong with nostalgia, and nostalgia tours - if the years you're reliving are good ones. if they're the best you have to offer.

for paramore and mcr, the best is yet to come. for paramore, the noughties were filled with misogyny and sexism, and now there's less of that. for mcr, the noughties were filled with homophobia and pressure to conform, and now there's less of that too. for them both, the early 2000s was a period of time where they had to work harder than everyone else to get a foot in the door.

and in 2022, you have them headline your nostalgia festival, because guess who kept selling all their tickets and releasing good music while the sexist, homophobic creeps kept falling into obscurity, or put behind bars, or cancelled on twitter? guess who's still big enough to pull those emo crowds?

paramore is. and mcr is.

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This is why I don’t leave the house

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HAYLEY WILLIAMS forgets to start Told You So. Bakersfield, California (October 2, 2022)

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-> Hayley at WWWY Fest

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via weheartit

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i know you think that i erased you

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The names of those killed by racism and police brutality are written along Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. George Floyd was killed on this street in front of Cup Foods after being accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill. The site of his death has been converted into a large shrine.

PHOTOGRAPH BY LESHON LEE

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And now you’re pumpin’ air to my lungs This don’t feel anything like sinking In fact, no matter how deep I go Into you, it looks like the water is crystal clear

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Hayley Williams and Zane Lowe “Petals for Armor I” | Apple Music Interview

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“A) We met at a high school football game, and Zac introduced us, he’d been wanting us to meet. But she was like, y’know she’s a trendsetter, right? She’s very fashionable, we love the way she looks, we love it! But, at the time she was doing DIY stuff. […] She took fishnet pantyhose and had it draped around her. […] That’s maybe not that weird now, but in our little Christian private school realm, I was really confused. But, she was awesome.” - Taylor York on meeting Hayley Williams 15 years ago.

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yelyahwilliams: remember hugs and soft touches from your friends cause i do @jellyquinn. both photos by @lindseybyrnes