Hayley Williams Announces New Emo-Themed Music Podcast
Hayley Williams has announced a new podcast, part of BBC Sounds’ Back To Back series. In Everything Is Emo, she’ll chronicle the history of the genre from its outset to the present day, including her time in Paramore. Listen to the first episode of the 20-part series at BBC Sounds.
Incredible emo music, personal memories and a heap of nostalgia, with Hayley Williams. ★
— BBC Sounds (@BBCSounds) April 29, 2022
Williams shared a statement about the project:
“Not long ago, people started calling me a “veteran” of my scene and of the music industry. It sounds so funny to me because most of the time I still feel like a fan. The serious truth is I have, in fact, grown up in this scene for the last two decades. I guess that’s a pretty long time. I’m really excited to have the opportunity to publicly nerd out about bands and songs that make my favourite subgenre feel like home to me. And while it will be fun to take some trips down memory lane, I’m just as excited, if not more, to play music from new artists I’m discovering all the time.
“Everything Is Emo is meant to feel like a conversation with other fans of the genre, young and (ahem) old. There’s going to be plenty of interaction, which I hope will feel somewhat reminiscent of the message boards and forums I used to frequent as a teenage scene kid.
“More than anything, I hope music fans and artists alike will be psyched to hear a highly considered spectrum of “EMO” in all its forms. And yeah, of course you’ll hear some Paramore.”
Williams’ most recent album with Paramore was 2017’s After Laughter, and she’s since released the solo projects Petals for Armor and Flowers for Vases/Descansos. Williams revealed in January that Paramore were in the studio working on new material. Earlier this month, she joined Billie Eilish for Happier Than Ever and version of Paramore’s Misery Business at Coachella.