Hayley Williams Overjoyed that Quentin Tarantino Likes Her Music
Quentin Tarantino met Paramore’s Hayley Williams at the Grammy Awards last night, where he heaped praise on their band.
Paramore were nominated in the verbosely titled ‘In Best Song Written tor Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media’ category for ‘Decode’, but eventually lost out to Jai Ho’s track for Slumdog Millionaire. The Paramore track The Only Exception has already received widespread acclaim.
Despite the snub, Hayley Williams seemed elated on Twitter, writing: “I MET freaking QUENTIN TARANTINO tonight!!! He knew our band. He said we were cool. Life. Maker.”
Narrowly escaping a Cliff Burton-esque fate last month, Rivers Cuomo and his Weezers played their first show since the accident at the University of Florida State University[1] last night. This occasion gets the obligatory Nashville name-drop, since Paramore’s Hayley Williams joined them onstage for a rousing rendition of “Say It Ain’t So.” Her contributions aren’t really audible in this video, but if it’s that exciting to you, you’re bound to catch it again this May when the two bands co-headline the Bamboozle fest in New Jersey.
Also, during the course of writing this, I realized how much more excited I am about the new Paramore record than I am a new Weezer record, despite the fact I won’t actually buy or listen to either. So, take that for what it’s worth, folks.
