“I will embarrass both of you.” Hayley Williams, lead singer of the rock band Paramore, paused a performance mid-song in order to call out a pair of disruptive fans during a concert in New York. | ABC7

Hayley Williams said the lyricism she’s most proud of from her latest album is the second pre-chorus of "True Believer," as discussed in an interview with The New York Times. The lyrics draw on two distinct references: Billie Holiday’s "Strange Fruit," a protest song that confronts the l*nching of Black Americans, and Hard Bargain, a historic neighborhood in Franklin, Tennessee, located near where Williams grew up. Hard Bargain was established when Harvey McLemore, a formerly enslaved man, purch