A former Paramore band member sat down for a podcast interview last week and one of the interviewers had the following to say:
Quote:
"I tried to write something about Beyonce for... I think it was for Vice or something, 'cause I was like, 'there are like seventeen people who wrote this song, what did she do?' and my editor's like, 'you can't write anything bad about Beyonce.' They're like, 'if you do it, people are gonna - you don't understand. You literally - it's not worth it.'"
"What, she's off limits?"
"I can't remember who told me this but they're were literally, 'she has so many fans and they love her so much that if anyone writes anything critical, they will just come down on you.'"
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http://www.goingofftrack.com/2016/10/12/zac-farro/
^^ Here's the interview, the moment in question happens around the 52-minute mark.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comme...rite_critical/
^^ And that's where I initially found out about the interview, along with the details of who is supposedly saying what.