Hayley Williams is glad to substantiate that Morgan Wallen is the “racist nation singer” she is referring to in her tune “Ego Demise at a Bachelorette Get together.”
Throughout a latest interview on the New York Occasions’ ”Popcast” to debate her newest solo album, the Paramore lead singer was requested whether or not she want to “identify names” to disclose who she means when she sings about being “the most important star / At this racist nation singer’s bar” within the title monitor.
“It might be a pair however I’m at all times speaking about Morgan Wallen,” Williams mentioned. “I don’t give a s—. Discover me at Complete Meals, b—, I don’t care.”
In 2021, Wallen was caught on video drunkenly utilizing a racist slur. The Grammy-nominated nation star’s This Bar and Tennessee Kitchen, named after one in every of his songs and paying homage to his upbringing, opened in Nashville final yr.
(Video of Wallen’s 2024 arrest for reckless endangerment is making headlines once more this week too. In police bodycam video obtained by the Related Press, Wallen denies throwing a chair off a Nashville bar’s roof however apologizes for “caus[ing] issues.” He took a plea deal after being charged within the case and was sentenced to seven days’ incarceration at a DUI Training Heart, two years’ probation, a $350 fantastic and fee of courtroom charges.)
Williams, who was born in Mississippi, met her future Paramore bandmates after shifting to Tennessee as a baby. She has been open about her political opinions and having to navigate her personal upbringing as a white southern Christian. A few of her newest music addresses non secular hypocrisy and the racial tensions and racist legacy of the South.
“I’m by no means not able to scream on the high of my lungs about racial points,” Williams mentioned in her interview. “I don’t know why that grew to become the factor that will get me essentially the most indignant. I believe it’s as a result of it’s so intersectional that it overlaps with every thing from local weather change to LGBTQIA+ points.”
Along with her years with Paramore and the inspiration behind her newest solo work, Williams spoke about how proud she is of the variety of Paramore’s fan base and viewers at reveals.
“I’m very passionate in that we’ve got an extended technique to go in making folks really feel like that they belong on the planet,” she mentioned. “The repercussions of individuals not feeling like they’re an element or they belong, we see it on a regular basis within the information. I believe music is just not solely the simplest however the stunning technique to faucet into folks’s hearts and their unconscious and alter their minds.”
