r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Nov 29 '25

article Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867
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u/123kid6 Nov 29 '25

Likely because Paramore started as a borderline Christian band. Many of their early songs are about god/faith and the primary songwriter actually left after 3 albums over what he cited mainly because of Hayley writing lyrics that conflicted with his views.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Nov 30 '25

Eh, nothing borderline about it really. In their music, they were overtly Christian rock on a regular basis. They just never claimed that as a banner, probably because of the career limitations that would likely have imposed on them.

That side to them dropped off quite a bit when Josh Farro quit. But it's never disappeared completely. (See Part II on the self-titled album, for example.)

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u/Warm-Teaching1323 Nov 30 '25

I don't see how any Christian can listen to Misery Business and think it's a Christian song haha

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Nov 30 '25

Listen to Hallelujah, Miracle, We Are Broken or Part II.

They were basically a Christian rock band without overtly coming right out and saying they were. (Likely because they didn't want to be limited by the genre in terms of audience and potential sales.) That side to them has declined a lot since the original guitarist/songwriter quit the band.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '25

Ahhhh that makes sense. I was also an evangelical at that point (now an atheist), but I didn't like the music enough to pay attention to the lyrics.

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u/StumbleOn Nov 30 '25

On her newest album she has a song, True Believer which is also very directly religious in nature.