Paramore performed two sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden, but Hayley Williams can't shake the image of the two fans she had removed from the pit during the first show.
“My insides were triggered from numerous personal experiences not fit for a blog post or a microphone on stage at an arena,” she wrote, though the post does nod to her memories of feeling like an outcast searching for belonging as a child of young, divorced parents. “My outsides were trying to maintain control of a situation I felt that myself and my bandmates were responsible for. Without the opportunity for a proper back and forth , I bared my teeth like a mother wolf.
The whole encounter has Williams thinking about how to engage with conflict in a more productive way, including the ones that are a bit more serious than some concertgoers pushing in a pit. During a recent appearance at Adjacent Festival in New Jersey, the singer told the audience that she was “very comfortable” talking politics, declaring: “And if you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re fucking dead to me.
“I hate that there isn’t always a simple answer to even the world’s silliest problems. A ‘good’ or ‘bad’ bin to use for clean up,” she wrote. “I hate that the only thing I really know to say to people I deem racist or bigoted in any way is ‘you’re dead to me; when I know that message isn’t the kind that’s going to change a hateful heart. How can I feel soft and tragic about it in one moment and ragey and rigid the next? Because that’s human.
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