OLD PHOTO OF HAYLEY WILLIAMS

 

Photographed January 3, 2010 at Citation in Nashville

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be 100 percent comfortable in a dress onstage.”

“I’m a loud person,” says 21-year-old Hayley Williams, Paramore’s fiery-haired, Lilliputian front woman, whose vocal adrenaline has made the band’s ferocious pop punk more than just a teenage phenomenon. The band’s 2009 album, Brand New Eyes, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard chart, delivering the kind of angst-filled rock that makes you want to crank up the volume and curse every loser who’s ever wronged you. Williams found inspiration from Paramore’s own internal drama: In the midst of its sold-out European tour in 2008, the group canceled several dates. Williams, who dated Paramore guitarist Josh Farro (they broke up prior to the tour), says she and the boys needed some time apart. “I felt a little overprotected,” she admits. “But now I can take care of myself.” Besides, the Tennessean, who grew up adoring the Distillers’ Brody Dalle and prefers a uniform of jeans and Nikes, has never been much of a girly girl. “[Onstage], my everyday thing would be a cut-up T-shirt and a good pair of pants that don’t show booty cleavage when you headbang.”—J.V.

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