Last year, Hayley Williams told the crowd at Paramore’s Atlantic City performance, “If you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re fucking dead to me.” On Friday, the band played the iHeartRadio Music Festival and the singer had some words about Trump.In Vegas, Williams took a pause from singing to say, “Project 2025 is Donald Trump’s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ community.
It is time for all Americans to band together and to finally defeat the Trump agenda.And the only way to do that is by confronting him at the polls.
Do you want to live in a dictatorship? Well, show up and vote.” The moment was channeling Debbie Harry from Blondie’s 1979 performance on The Midnight Special; a snippet of Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass” was also played during “Hard Times.” Compare the Paramore and Blondie performances below....