This previous Friday (Dec. 27), Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams took to Instagram Tales to assist commemorate her thirty sixth birthday, and in doing so, she alluded to doubtlessly embarking on her first-ever solo tour someday subsequent 12 months.
Within the submit – shared by fan account weare_paramore – Williams begins by writing:
Thanks for the birthday needs. It’s lovely to really feel seen and celebrated. 35 felt like tilling soil and throwing little seeds down. Ready, ready, ready to see. 36 is thrilling and a bit scary, already. A lot to hope for. I’m nonetheless within the dust, prepared for no matter may develop. Fruit?
Then, in a slyly crossed-out paragraph, she provides: “I’m going to attempt to lastly play some exhibits subsequent 12 months that might’ve occurred practically 5 years in the past now. That’s, if the world doesn’t fucking cease earlier than then. Right here’s hoping. Hayley.”
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Naturally, her followers have responded with a ton of enthusiasm on the prospect of seeing Williams carry out her solo work in live performance. As an illustration, two Instagram customers respectively responded: “I’m so completely happy she determined to do that! I can’t wait!” and “I [would] be over the moon if she did an Auckland solo live performance!”
As followers probably know, Williams was scheduled to take her debut solo file – 2020’s Petals for Armor – on the street in 2020; nevertheless, and as Billboard confirmed again then, the tour was indefinitely postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
In a social media submit explaining the cancelation (per Billboard), Williams defined [sic]: “Hello pals, sure, it’s true. the remaining dates for Petals For Armor have been formally cancelled. this 12 months has been arduous on all people for plenty of totally different causes. im sorry so as to add to that checklist… sorry for myself and for yall. refunds can be found.”
Fortunately, she was nonetheless in a position to do a brief however candy NPR “Tiny Desk” (Dwelling) present in December 2020.
As for Paramore, they issued their sixth studio album (and first since 2017’s After Laughter) – This Is Why – in 2023. It obtained widespread acclaim from followers and journalists, and earlier this 12 months, Paramore turned the first female-fronted band to win Greatest Rock Album on the Grammy Awards. Across the identical time, additionally they issued an announcement on their newfound state as a “freshly unbiased” act following their departure from Atlantic Data.
If Williams certainly excursions subsequent 12 months, she’ll nearly definitely choose up the place she left off with Petals for Armor, in addition to embody tracks from its 2021 follow-up: Flowers for Vases / Descansos).
Would you be all the way down to see a Hayley Williams solo present? Tell us!
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