With her years of success with Paramore and her recent success as a solo artist, Hayley Williams has been given a larger platform and she’s been steadfast in using it to call out injustices.

In her recent interview with Vulture for instance, Williams says: “The pop-punk and emo scene in the early 2000s. It was brutally misogynistic. A lot of internalized sexism, and even when you were lucky enough to meet other bands who were kind and respectful, there was other shit that wasn’t. And I was really feisty,” she said. “We got offered Warped Tour, and there was a caveat: ‘It’s a stage called the Shiragirl Stage. It’s all female.’ I was pissed! I wanted to qualify for a real stage.”

The talented artist also discusses topics like mental health, her divorce, how it felt to be “the other woman” and why her name is the only one on a contract with Atlantic Records.

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