Hayley Williams has been having a blast occurring musical aspect quests throughout Nashville. She’s joined each Finneas and Cyndi Lauper in current months. Her newest included a shock look with Deftones, the place she joined the band on stage to lend some hanging vocals and headbanging to their efficiency of “Minerva.”
The pop-up doubled as a reunion for Williams and Deftones, who final carried out collectively over a decade in the past. In 2010, the Paramore entrance girl joined the band at Luxembourg’s Rock-a-Subject pageant for “Passenger,” filling in for Maynard James Keenan.
Paramore’s personal headlining tour, in assist of their most up-to-date album This Is Why, wrapped in November 2023. Final yr, they hit the highway with Taylor Swift as particular friends on the Eras tour. Extra just lately, Williams has been considering heading on tour on her personal. These sporadic shock appearances may simply be her warming up.
“I’m going to try to lastly play some reveals subsequent yr that might’ve occurred practically 5 years in the past now. That’s, if the world doesn’t fucking cease earlier than then. Right here’s hoping,” Williams shared on Instagram just lately, referencing the scrapped reveals she beforehand scheduled in assist of her debut solo album Petals for Armor, launched throughout pandemic lockdowns.
“Wow. I’m going on tour. Myself. It’s not Paramore and in truth, it’s just a bit terrifying,” Williams wrote on the time. “But when I do know something, it’s that there’s no safer place (apart from at residence with my canine) than to be in a room, on a stage, in entrance of the individuals who I’ve grown up singing my lungs out for. There was a time I believed I wouldn’t tour Petals for Armor. What a joke. I have to.”
For Williams, performing reside has additionally been a manner of remaining grounded and linked because the world crumbles. “Being on tour is difficult on the physique, it’s arduous on the mind. However these two hours that you just get with these folks which might be there on the present, it’s like nothing else,” she informed Rolling Stone in 2023. “Particularly when the world feels prefer it’s fairly actually crumbling round us, to have the ability to expertise folks’s pleasure every night time is an actual present as a result of you may very simply neglect that that kind of pleasure exists once you’re simply on-line otherwise you see the information.”
