Celeb News: Hayley Williams is on Lorde's team

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Paramore singer Hayley Williams has opened up about sexism and misogyny in music - saying that she agrees with recent claims by Lorde and Chvrches frontwomen Lauren Mayberry.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Williams spoke about her experiences in fronting a band as a female in rock and spoke of her admiration of comments from her two contemporaries - with Lorde hitting out at the way that stars like Selena Gomez oversexualise teenage girls and Mayberry hitting out against comments aimed at women in music.

"I loved Lauren's and Lorde's posts," she said. "I think it's really cool that there's so many rad girls and older women in music. There's a lot of people that have different points of view and it's nice to see people coming together and being honest about something that matters and should be talked about. I'm so excited to see this stuff surfacing because it's real." "

She continued: "When I was 16 and we started touring, I looked like a 12-year-old boy with no makeup, sports bra, one of the guys' shirts, and I'd wear the same pair of jeans for a month straight. I never showered and was gross and guys that were probably a good 10 years older than me harassed me. I remember playing North Star Bar [in Philadelphia] and this guy yelled 'take off your shirt!' probably 10 times. It had happened a couple of times at this point but this guy was super aggressive about it.

Williams added: "By the fifth or sixth time, I realised that I'm the one with the microphone. I've got power here. I don't have to be quiet."
Last month when writing a blog for The Guardian, Chvrches Lauren Mayberry revealed how she posted a screengrab of a Facebook message from someone requesting to take her out to dinner so they could 'make superior love' - before receiving a flurry of offensive and sexist responses, including rape threats.

Mayberry responded to the flurry of messages by writing: "But why should women 'deal' with this? I am incredibly lucky to be doing the job I am doing at the moment – and painfully aware of the fact that I would not be able to make music for a living without people on the internet caring about our band. But does that mean that I need to accept that it's OK for people to make comments like this, because that's how women in my position are spoken to? I absolutely accept that in this industry there is comment and criticism."

She continued: "There will always be bad reviews: such is the nature of a free press and free speech. When you put your work out there, you are accepting the fact that people will comment on it, but it is your choice whether you read it or not.

"What I do not accept, however, is that it is all right for people to make comments ranging from "a bit sexist but generally harmless" to openly sexually aggressive. That it is something that "just happens". Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over and accept defeat? I hope not. Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to "just deal with".

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Talent stanning for talent, as always

BlackAura

So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

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Originally posted by BlackAura

So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

Who do you think is more powerful?

Gossamer™

Temporal

"There will always be bad reviews: such is the nature of a free press and free speech. When you put your work out there, you are accepting the fact that people will comment on it, but it is your choice whether you read it or not."

Spill that tea Hayley!!

thediscomonkey

Quite naive, non? Talking is easy though.

Idk, I may sound pretty pessimistic, but looking at the reality.... We may win at one battle, but there will be another problematic stuffs raising right after it. It has no end.

Those ideologies and plannings are great on paper, but the problem is in the application. Best is to live by the Golden Rules. [/rambling]

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Originally posted by BlackAura

So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

LOL. Hayley and Taylor are TIGHT fyi.

Gabe²

You should change the tittle to "Hayley W. speaks sexism, supports Lorde"
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I love how she always speaks her mind!

Also before this interview she talked to NYLON Magazine:

Hayley talks about the Chvrches' article

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"The internet gave people a set of balls that they probably don't have in real life," she told me over the phone this week, adding "When I saw that post, it's so real and people don't know it, it's such a hidden thing. For someone to write about it on the Internet and get a lot of attention for it was incredible--I loved it."

"I realized early on that the microphone in my hand could be really empowering," Williams explained when talking about her own experiences with sexism. "When girls realize that they do have a voice and it's not wrong to use it and express their true identities, that's what we need to be encouraging."

http://www.nylonmag.com/articles/sex...world-chvrches

Baby Judas

I thought Lorde will release Team remix with Hayley on it..

NMZ

muddysquirrel

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Originally posted by BlackAura

So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

Taylor and Hayley are like long time BFFs. So that must mean Lorde is on Taylor`s team too.

She actually is not denying that she likes her, tho.
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=437777

TurntUp

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Originally posted by BlackAura

So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

girl fight!

that team wins musically and they could whoop that ass!

muddysquirrel

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girl fight!

that team wins musically and they could whoop that ass!

Which ever team has Taylor in it wins musically.

Will_

She better stan for the LORDe.

caleb.

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So it's Gaga/Bey/Lorde and Hayley against Katy/Selena/Taylor and Miley.

I'm not sure those two belong here

Kedzie53

I love that they're talking about sexism but I still don't get the original comments from Lorde on Come and Get It. Like why aren't they talking about Blurred Lines (a bigger song) instead? Unlike "I know you want it" C&GI gives the girl the power to give the guy permission. I don't know maybe I'm just being bias since I'm a Selena stan.

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Originally posted by Kedzie53

I love that they're talking about sexism but I still don't get the original comments from Lorde on Come and Get It. Like why aren't they talking about Blurred Lines (a bigger song) instead? Unlike "I know you want it" C&GI gives the girl the power to give the guy permission. I don't know maybe I'm just being bias since I'm a Selena stan.

There is a difference between a woman actively taking control and deciding when and how she wants to **** and the following lyrics which talk of passively lying around waiting for some guy to **** her and saying he can **** her whenever he wants.

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You ain't gotta worry, it's an open invitation
I'll be sittin' right here, real patient
All day, all night, I'll be waitin' standby

The lyrics aren't a godawful atrocity of a HUGE issue, but they ARE something it is valid to have an issue with nonetheless.

I'm really sad at all the young people on this forum who have no idea what feminism actually is.

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Originally posted by Kedzie53

I love that they're talking about sexism but I still don't get the original comments from Lorde on Come and Get It. Like why aren't they talking about Blurred Lines (a bigger song) instead? Unlike "I know you want it" C&GI gives the girl the power to give the guy permission. I don't know maybe I'm just being bias since I'm a Selena stan.

I'm with you. Out of all the songs she could have said were degrading, she picked the cleanest one. There's nothing over-sexualized in the song lyrics nor in the music video. Selena isn't an artist who typically serves this type of song either so I think her comment was ridiculous. I like Lorde a lot but I think it was a stupid comment to make, especially since Selena was a big fan & helped her gain exposure. (I know a lot of people that bought "The Love Club" after Selena's instagram post with lyrics from it, or "Royals" after hearing her cover it before it blew up on radio.)