Hayley Williams and Paramore are set to open for Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour subsequent summer season, and the rocker is opening up in regards to the uncommon approach she first met the “Anti-Hero” songstress greater than a decade in the past.
“We sort of each obtained began across the similar time, and across the similar age as properly,” Williams recalled during a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “Me and Taylor met as a result of each of us — Paramore and Taylor — had been nominated for Greatest New Artist the identical yr on the GRAMMYS.”
The present in query was in 2008, and the late Amy Winehouse wound up taking house the award. Then, after the present, Williams and Swift wound up on the similar celebration.
“We had been at some GRAMMY celebration — it was really Timbaland’s GRAMMY celebration. [It was] big. I used to be very nervous,” Williams recalled. “However a girl got here as much as me and he or she stated, ‘I am Taylor Swift’s mother and, you understand, Taylor would not have a whole lot of associates her age that do music. And I’d like to, like, you understand, introduce you guys or get your quantity or no matter.'”
“So Andrea, the legend that she is, she related us,” Williams added.
Fallon additionally held up a photograph of the pair from round that period, and Williams remarked how “in each photograph of us that is on the web, one or each of us” is giving an enthusiastic thumbs up.
“That is your factor!” Fallon joked.
“Yeah! It is like simply to indicate how cool we’re,” Williams added with fun.
Again in June, Swift revealed that she had recorded Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), a remake of her 2010 album, and that she’d teamed up with Hayley Williams for the observe “Castles Crumbling.”
Swift beforehand revealed that Williams had been a giant affect on her music writing round that point, which made her involvement within the remake significantly poignant.
In the meantime, Williams will probably be becoming a member of Swift in 2024 for all the European leg of her Eras tour.
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