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Hayley Williams Is Glad Paramore Doesn’t Have to Deal With ‘Lame’ Pop Girl Stan Wars
Paramore's Hayley Williams criticized the current stat-obsessed state of pop fan culture in a recent Instagram rant.
When it comes to pop stans weaponizing chart positions and record sales in their online feuds — usually centered around women in the genre — Hayley Williams is the human embodiment of the “I’m not reading all of that — congratulations, or sorry that happened to you” and “Damn, y’all live like this?” memes. In a rare social media blitz, the Paramore leader got some feelings off of her chest about the current stat-obsessed state of pop standom from her perspective on the outskirts of it. “The reason the internet is something I’ve been thinking about a lot, and why I just don’t really love it — especially in the music world … whether it’s the pop girls or any scene, really — it’s like, people only give a fuck about numbers now and stats,” Williams said.
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