Why we love Hayley Williams
If you've turned the radio on at any point in the last four years, you'll probably have heard of Paramore and their angry rock stylings. But you might not have heard of Hayley Williams, their lead singer, which is a thing we intend to rectify forthwith.
For the lead singer of a rock band, Hayley is remarkably young. Born in 1988, she was only 16 when Paramore's first album was released, and even then that's not the most impressive thing about her – she was signed to Atlantic at the age of 14 after she was discovered in Nashville writing pop music with songwriters.
Think about what you were doing when you were 14. Was it writing pop songs in Nashville? We're betting it probably wasn't. You were probably summoning up the courage to try and look old enough to buy fags from a corner shop. Initially, Interscope's plan for Hayley was to package her as a Britney Spears-a-like pop songstress, but she was dead keen on making alternative music in a band and formed Paramore.
Luckily for everyone involved – and proving the other members wrong when they said they were “a bit cagey” about having a female singer - Paramore turned out to be pretty good. Really good, some might say - Brand New Eyes, their third album, went platinum in the UK back in 2009.
Hayley's since earned a massive cult following in the alt music community, and fair enough – she's beautiful, talented, and has really cool dyed red hair. We're not about to argue against that one.
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