On her song “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” Hayley Williams calls out a “racist country singer.” And in a recent interview, the Paramore frontwoman revealed which musician she was referring to: Morgan Wallen.
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In the Wednesday (Sept. 30) episode of Popcast from The New York Times, Williams named names when asked about the track, on which she sings, “I’ll be the biggest star at this racist country singer’s bar/ No use shootin’ for the moon, no use chasing waterfalls.”
“It could be a couple [different people], but I’m always talking about Morgan Wallen,” she told journalist Jon Caramanica. “I don’t give a s–t.”
Does she care what the country superstar thinks about that? Absolutely not. “Find me at Whole Foods, b—h!” she said. “I don’t care. I just don’t care.”
Billboard has reached out to Wallen’s reps for comment.
The pop rocker’s comments come four years after the “Last Night” singer was caught on camera saying the N-word. Afterward, he stepped away from the spotlight to work on himself and told TMZ in a statement, “I’m embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back.”
Williams, however, isn’t going to stop calling out racism in the music industry any time soon. The singer has long been vocal about her passion for racial justice, something she sings about on “True Believer” — another song from her August album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party.
“I’m never not ready to scream at the top of my lungs about racial issues,” she added on Popcast. “I think it’s so intersectional that it overlaps with everything from climate change to LGBTQIA+ issues … When you’re passionate about something and you really believe in something, and have the will to spread that, yeah, talk about it.”
Watch Williams call out Wallen below.
