{"id":52917,"date":"2025-12-01T18:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/racists-sexists-transphobes-not-welcome-at-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:08:32","slug":"racists-sexists-transphobes-not-welcome-at-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/racists-sexists-transphobes-not-welcome-at-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Racists, Sexists, Transphobes Not Welcome at Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;All are welcome if you believe all should be welcome\u2026 If you don\u2019t believe that, you\u2019re not welcome!\u201d she says<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hayley-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hayley-williams\" data-tag=\"hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> doesn\u2019t want hateful people at her show. In a recent interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/features\/true-believer-hayley-williams-interviewed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Clash Magazine<\/a><\/em>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paramore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramore\" data-tag=\"paramore\">Paramore<\/a> frontwoman made it clear that she will not welcome fans who discriminate at her and the band\u2019s concerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s so important that people feel welcome to the party,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cI\u2019ve always said, all are welcome at our shows. But I don\u2019t want racists around, and I don\u2019t want sexist people around, and I don\u2019t want people there who think that trans people are a burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cI think that\u2019s a hard line for me now. I hope it naturally happens that people who do harbour those harmful ideologies aren\u2019t going to feel welcome, because they\u2019re going to walk in the door and realise that the gang\u2019s all here, all banded together around something positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe comments come several months after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/podcasts\/100000010436245\/hayley-williams-tackles-the-souths-racist-history.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> that the \u201cracist country singer\u201d she references in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/hayley-williams-new-song-collection-takeaways-1235397146\/\">Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party<\/a>\u201d was about Morgan Wallen.  \u201cIt could be a couple, but I\u2019m always talking about Morgan Wallen, I don\u2019t give a shit,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tContinuing in the new <em>Clash<\/em> interview, the singer made one rule clear: \u201cAll are welcome if you believe all should be welcome \u2026 If you don\u2019t believe that, you\u2019re not welcome!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilliams has spoken openly about how important it is for her to speak against racism and climate change, and advocate for LGBTQ and other social causes so openly. \u201cWhen you\u2019re passionate about something and you really believe in something, and have the will to spread that, yeah, talk about it,\u201d she previously told the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-racists-sexists-transphobes-not-welcome-1235475028\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All are welcome if you believe all should be welcome\u2026 If you don\u2019t believe that, you\u2019re not welcome!\u201d she says Hayley Williams doesn\u2019t want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}