- 2020-12-10
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MUSIC
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Hayley Williams Performs at NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Paramore's Hayley Williams appeared on NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert to perform “Pure Love”, “Taken” and “Dead Horse”.
Joined by a full band, featuring collaborator Joey Howard on bass, Julien Baker on guitar, Becca Mancari on synth and Aaron Steele on drums.
“I've never done this without Paramore,” Hayley Williams says during the performance.
Three songs are included on her debut solo album “Petals for Armor”, which was released back in May.
The album was preceded by two EPs “Petals for Armor I” and “Petals for Armor II”, which make up the album's first two parts.
The album reached No. 4 on the UK Albums chart and No. 18 on the US Billboard 200.
Hayley Williams told Pitchfork about songs in an interview in May.- “Pure Love”:
“This has so much to do with me overcoming my fear of intimacy and learning new ways to connect with someone, trying so hard to let myself experience discomfort as a human being in order to grow. I didn't ever mind the lyrics to the third part of the album coming across as innuendo. I was very happy to have that. So “getting experimental” in a relationship—people can take that sexually if they would like to, but I really see it as: I've never tried having a healthy relationship before in my whole entire damn life. It's time for me to try what it feels like to communicate on a real adult level.”
“Taken”:
“Shame has always been like a backpack that I carried around, and there was a point where I realized I didn't want to carry it anymore; I got really tired of feeling like I was like in quicksand in my relationship. This song's really playful because the kind of relationship I'm striving for is one that feels lighter. With some of this song, I'm maybe claiming something that I haven't yet fully embodied yet. But I have hope that I can get there. Two individual people trying to come together—how the fuck do we do that? I don't know how people make it work, but they do. And I believe I can be one of those people.”
“Dead Horse”:
“It's definitely real—hold on, Alf's got something in his mouth. Speaking of Alf, one of the reasons I kept the voice note was that he barked in the background. It was almost as if he knew he was going to make it onto the record. I was in my bathroom recording a voice memo for my friend, Daniel James, who I wrote the song with. I had told him three days before, “I have the melody and the lyrics, I'm going to send you a voice memo, and we'll get together soon.” But I fell into this crazy hole of my own sadness and couldn't come out of it. This song is like if my 20-year-old self finally got to write lyrics and say things she really needed to say, but it took me until I was 30 to do it. It's very snarky, but I wanted to show that it took me feeling like an absolute shell of a person to be able to speak out about my feelings. This song felt like pulling a very deep splinter out.” -
- source : NPR
