| HAYLEY WILLIAMS - "strange youth" tumblr blog... |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Friday, 18 June 2010 12:00 |
 PARAMORE's Hayley Williams has written in her new Tumblr blog that: "it’s been a wild month, to say the least. “life is a daring adventure or nothing at all”. is there really more to say about that than that? ok, well one more thing... human beings are no less respectable when they are at their most vulnerable. and that’s why i try to have faith in people." Paramore are currently in Hamburg, Germany. Williams has been reading 'Wonderland Avenue' by Danny Sugerman and listening to Mumford and Sons. Watch B.o.B.'s music video for 'Airplanes' featuring Hayley HERE. Does Williams finally address her recent photo controversy in a round-a-bout way? Read some excerpts from her new blog below: "maybe now is a good place and time to state my opinion on our being everywhere at the same time. seems like we’ve got just about every magazine covered this month, people are playing our songs and i’m singing on B.o.B’s song and it’s just crazy all the time. i do love it… it’s a lot of fun to work hard and see your work all around you. yet at the same time, there are still large number of people that i don’t think will ever get it. the SPIN article (you know, the cover one) that was just printed about us doesn’t really seem to say anything ABOUT us as a band. and it seems that in most cases writers simply enjoy looking at us and exclaiming - like they’ve discovered something huge - “THEY’RE YOUNG!” or of course there’s always, “THEY’RE CHRISTIANS”… or “THEY DON’T SHOOT UP IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!” what is this the 80’s? is it really that sensational that we aren’t the second coming of Motley Crue? does our music suggest that we should be acting otherwise? listen, i’m not trying to sit here and wreck the writer from SPIN. i’m sure it’s hard to get a handle on any band within the amount of time given to capture “our story”. maybe reading articles about us just gets a little monotonous, that’s all. oh and i’m not actually friends with McLovin or Miley. awkward turtle. and on a slightly different tip, it’s my opinion that anyone who is coming onto our band looking for controversy is completely missing the point. the point isn’t in the intent of controversy, the point is that there is no way around it. as people, aren’t we all bursting at the seams with conflict and controversy? the point of our music is that there are human hearts in it. because anyone knows that eventually, someone will find something on you. if you don’t do drugs, you probably have another addiction. even innocent. we could stop looking for the wrongs and realize that they’re inevitable on the way to something more meaningful. i’m not totally preaching here. talking to myself as well, in case you wondered. who knows? maybe i really am just bored with giving music journalists the benefit of the doubt. like they’re really gonna let people know what we would want to tell them. yet still, i want to have faith in people. and anyways, what WOULD we want to tell people if we had that much space to write about ourselves? it would probably end up just the same. does it ever bug you guys? do you ever feel like some people are just missing it? when you come to a show do you feel the same thing that i feel when i’m on that stage? i mean, i know you’re not standing on the stage… but surely you can feel the same energy that i’m feeling, to some degree. it’s so much more powerful than all the trivial nonsense that people chalk our band up to be. it means something great and it feels empowering. it’s the grace of knowing that we can all totally suck and be a little messed up and then stand in a room with thousands of other people who are exactly the same way, no matter how dressed up they look on the outside, and we can be broken or triumphant all the same." Read Hayley's full Tumblr blog HERE.  |
