Hayley Williams Takes Another Shot At Morgan Wallen During Nashville Show: “Watch Out For F***ing Flying Chairs”

Morgan Wallen lives rent free in the head of Hayley Williams.

If that name isn’t familiar to you, there’s a good chance you are at least somewhat familiar with her work. Williams is the lead singer of Paramore, the punk rock band known for songs like “Misery Business” and “Still Into You.” Last year, she made headlines when she released an album on her own, titled Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, and the title track took a not-so-veiled shot at country music superstar Morgan Wallen.

The first lines of that song go like this:

“I’ll be the biggest star at this racist country singer’s bar
No use shootin’ for the moon, no use chasing waterfalls
I’m the biggest star at this racist country singer’s bar
No use shootin’ for the moon, no use chasing waterfalls”

It’s since become very clear that the country music singer she’s got in her crosshairs with those lyrics is Wallen.

She herself as confirmed that Morgan Wallen is the “racist country singer” in her song, and during a show at the House of Blues in Boston, Massachusetts earlier this month, Williams was talking about her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee when she blatantly said to the audience there that she hates Morgan Wallen:

“It was something about being ‘concept neutral,’ and I just thought, ‘What a f***ing bad time to be neutral on anything in this world. So shame on them and … marginalized people need allies and protection and support, so…

Back home, we have the same s***, you know. and I hate it, because I grew up there, and it was so special and then I got older and I could see, I had different eyes to see it all. And they ruined Broadway… no shade if you want to travel down there and go honk tonkin’. I like that too. But um, I hate Morgan Wallen. Oh no. That’ll be on the internet. F***. Let’s play it.”

It played alright.

That quote obviously got a lot of attention, and Hayley Williams kept the “Morgan Wallen Hate Tour” rolling when she played in Nashville recently. This time, she cited the infamous chair throwing incident (and arrest) from 2024, when the “Last Night” singer threw a chair off the top of Eric Church’s Broadway bar, Chief’s.

She asked the crowd if anyone there was from out of town, and then promptly warned them to keep an eye out for… flying chairs while they are in town:

“Tourism on the rise. Watch out for f***ing flying chairs. You never know if you’re gonna get hit.”

Two years later and we’re still doing the chair throwing jokes, eh? How boring…. imagine being a musician and an entertainer, and rather than playing good music, you make “I hate Morgan Wallen” your entire personality. It’s kind of pathetic, really.

Good luck finding a bigger Morgan Wallen hater than Hayley Williams. The Paramore lead singer appears to be staying strong in her “racist country music singer” hate campaign. She even went as far to throw some shade at the country star by bringing Jason Isbell out to sing “Cover Me Up,” which is a song that Isbell wrote and released, but Wallen covered (and that cover became beloved by his fans).