{"id":198726,"date":"2025-10-12T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/hayley-williams-takes-fallon-to-church-with-chilling-true-believer-performance\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:54:05","slug":"hayley-williams-takes-fallon-to-church-with-chilling-true-believer-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/hayley-williams-takes-fallon-to-church-with-chilling-true-believer-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Takes \u2018Fallon\u2019 to Church With Chilling \u2018True Believer\u2019 Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1760313600%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262172368%26%26%26youtube%26sNNYei__joU%3Ac9a5dd27d6b14aaa59a9e20e65692dda13573731&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=sNNYei__joU&amp;moduleid=2172368&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2172368\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hayley Williams took the Tonight Show stage for the first live performance of \u201cTrue Believer,\u201d a record which is about the gentrification of Nashville, the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians, and the South\u2019s troubled legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put up chain-link fences underneath the biggest bridges\/<br \/>They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children\/<br \/>They say that Jesus is the way, but then they gave him a white face\/<br \/>So they don\u2019t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them,\u201d Williams sang, later seething \u201cThe south will not rise again\/ \u2018Til its paid for every sin.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/>&#8220;True Believer&#8221; also name-checks &#8220;Strange Fruit,&#8221; the anti-lynching protest anthem popularized by Billie Holliday&#8217;s 1939 recording, which the orchestra played a bit of at the end \u2014 a lineage of Williams&#8217;s own song&#8217;s forebears and influences. She brought it to the Fallon soundstage with the help of a predominantly Black orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue Believer\u201d appears on the Paramore frontwoman\u2019s latest solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. Williams officially released her third solo album in late August.<br \/><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sNNYei__joU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">src<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131323912.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Williams took the Tonight Show stage for the first live performance of \u201cTrue Believer,\u201d a record which is about the gentrification of Nashville, the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians, and the South\u2019s troubled legacy. \u201cThey put up chain-link fences underneath the biggest bridges\/They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children\/They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}