Here is another example of Hayley Williams being a good role model (first example: Alter the Press's list)
Hip-hop artist Angel Haze praised Paramore's frontwoman in an interview with Redbull on how they met through Twitter, and how the band's music speaks to her on a personal level. Read an excerpt below:
“Without sounding like a creep, I think Hayley Williams and I were always bound to meet and hit it off. I was 16 when the Riot!
album came out, and only just started listening to music – in the
Christian cult I’d grown up in it wasn’t allowed. I turned on my TV and
on MTV there’s this girl with fiery red hair fronting a band with the
strongest voice, dressed like a tomboy in a freakin’ graphic T-shirt and
doing something boys normally do. I remember dancing on my bed to Crushcrushcrush, moshing so hard I probably broke something inside of me.
“I try not to meet my idols. I was in Paris three weeks ago at
Givenchy and Kanye and I were sitting next to each other the entire show
and I didn't say a word to him. I didn’t want to risk having all of my
ideals shattered. So when Hayley and I first met it was totally by
accident. It was spring last year, when I was playing small shows at
SXSW. I was at a MAC cosmetics party and all of a sudden my manager
comes over with her and says, ‘Hayley, Angel is a huge fan of yours’.
Later I changed my Twitter bio to ‘Rap Game Hayley Williams’. We started
tweeting every day and our bromance went from there.
“We have very similar personalities. People might think that we’re
too tough, but then when you meet us it could not be any less true.
She’s the sweetest, kindest person and the only person I’ve talked to
about career dilemmas. When I leaked my album she texted me: ‘Woah,
dude…!’
“Hayley was 14 when she was signed. She gets what it’s like to be a young female in the music business. With rock it’s exponentially easier than rap – with rap you’re limited to only one girl at a time, one female rapper of the moment, that’s just a given. But in rock they’re still the female in the workplace making five dollars to the male counterpart’s 10. I tell her, I feel like rap’s ugly stepchild. She says: ‘F**k that! Everything about you is genre defying. It’s not about appealing to a certain demographic. You’re gonna have to be strong for people who do get your message.’
“She invited me to see her play her first time at Madison Square Gardens. Before then I’d never actually seen anyone in concert. I’ve got a ton of videos of it on my iPhone and my whole stage presence has entirely changed since then. I’m learning guitar for my next album, two hours every day I’m on the road. So far I can play The Only Exception, which is my favourite Paramore song.”
“Hayley was 14 when she was signed. She gets what it’s like to be a young female in the music business. With rock it’s exponentially easier than rap – with rap you’re limited to only one girl at a time, one female rapper of the moment, that’s just a given. But in rock they’re still the female in the workplace making five dollars to the male counterpart’s 10. I tell her, I feel like rap’s ugly stepchild. She says: ‘F**k that! Everything about you is genre defying. It’s not about appealing to a certain demographic. You’re gonna have to be strong for people who do get your message.’
“She invited me to see her play her first time at Madison Square Gardens. Before then I’d never actually seen anyone in concert. I’ve got a ton of videos of it on my iPhone and my whole stage presence has entirely changed since then. I’m learning guitar for my next album, two hours every day I’m on the road. So far I can play The Only Exception, which is my favourite Paramore song.”
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