Hayley Williams talks to Rolling Stone Magazine about her 2020 in So, How Was Your 2020, a series in which entertainers answer a questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year.
Click here to read her answers, some of our favorite we listed below.
The album I listened to the most in 2020 was:
Jessica Pratt, Quiet Signs.
My favorite TV show to stream during quarantine was:
I wanna start Normal People and Insecure all over again.
The song that will define “2020” for me is:
Judee Sill’s “Lopin’ Along Thru the Cosmos.”
The old-favorite album I returned to for comfort this year was:
Erykah Badu’s — Mama’s Gun.
The old-favorite movie I returned to for comfort this year was:
American Psycho. I’m kidding, I don’t know, I watched a million.
A new hobby I picked up in quarantine was:
Making my own blends of tea. I got really nerdy about tea actually because it’s sort of what has helped me create a meditative routine every morning.
Something positive that happened to me that nobody noticed was:
I got my first year actually off work and touring since I was 15 years old.
The mistake I learned the most from this year was:
Believing that my putting out an album meant that I was really living and becoming my own woman. I didn’t have time to really live simply or become my own person until all of my “plans” were thwarted by the pandemic and other tragedies. To feel purpose by way of activism, to feel rested by way of solitude and surrender… I honestly think I had some shit pretty twisted until this year. I’m still learning.
The thing I’m most looking forward to doing when the pandemic is over is:
Paramore shows and sweating with strangers.
My biggest hope for 2021 is:
We will have a new administration that will take seriously the fight for racial equity; for healthcare that will include more accessible resources for people suffering any kind of mental illness; that rock music will continue its beautiful rise back to the forefront of everyone’s musical consciousness.
