Hayley Williams graces the February cover of the newest edition of American Songwriter. Talking to Jason Scott she opened up about her latest studio album, FLOWERS for VASES / descansos, the writing and recording process and the lyrics. Click HERE to read the interview.
“I tend to paint my memories, even bad ones, in this rose-colored tint that everything was actually so romantic,” she says. “I have to remind myself that things are in the past for a reason, or yeah, something might have been really sweet but look where you are today. I create this more beautiful setting for some of my life’s hardest moments. That can get a little sticky.”
“I wish I could write lightheartedly. That’s what’s so great about Paramore─there’s a juxtaposition at least. Music tends to be one way and my lyrics are as dark as they need to be.”
Once she discarded all those dead flowers, leaving vast, empty vases scattered in their place, she struck upon an epiphany: it was time to breathe vitality back into her life. She needed to go grocery shopping anyway, so she scrawled the words “flowers for vases” at the bottom of her shopping list, below items like oat milk and granola. She didn’t think much of it at the time and quickly shuffled off to Trader Joe’s. Much later, when she flipped through a stack of papers and scrambled notes, her eyes fell upon that long-forgotten shopping list.
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