Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift Friendship: Paramore Vocalist 'Can't Wait' on 'The Eras' Concert

Taylor Swift just announced her highly anticipated comeback tour yesterday, Nov. 1, 2022.

Taylor Swift "The Eras" 2023 Tour will be filling in stadiums across the United States for 27-dates next year, from March to August 2023.

Among the nine guest stars that Swift has invited is the well-loved pop rock band Paramore, whose vocalist is a good friend of the GRAMMY-winning popstar.

Hayley Williams and Taylor Swift's friendship goes a long way back.

According to Hollywood Cheat Sheet, Swift and Williams started hanging out around 2009, right after the Kanye West debacle happened at the now-infamous MTV moment when West disrespected Swift as she gave her speech after receiving the Best Video by a Female Artist award.

"We don't really musically have a ton in common, but we're both in the same industry, which especially back then was a different world for women than it is even today," Williams told Stereogum. "And I'm still not saying it's perfect, but like I think that we were learning to find camaraderie with other female musicians," told Stereogum.

Williams also said that it was "nice" to know someone that the two of them did something similar, aside from both living in Nashville, Tenessee, which they both have talked presumably about a lot at the time.

In 2011, Swift, who was on her "Speak Now" tour, pulled out Hayley Williams on stage to sing their hit song "That's What You Get."

Four years later, Williams went to shock everyone when she made a cameo on one of Taylor Swift's biggest music ever - "Bad Blood."

Donning a body-hugging blue chic modern battle wear with her iconic red hair, Williams channeled her inner rage when she became "Crimson Curse," one of many of Swift's star-studded allies in the video at the time.

Selena Gomez, Zendaya, Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Goulding, and Ellen Pompeo were many of the women who were invited to the action-packed music video.

Very recently, Williams was also one of the many artists who gushed over Swift's surprise album, "evermore."

"She's got so many incredible songs and her career speaks for itself but I am pretty sure 'evermore' is the f-in coolest album Taylor's ever made," she claimed.

Since then, the two have been mellow on social media. The two both remained elusive to the public during the pandemic until only recently when Swift announced her career-defining world tour, "The Eras."

Williams, along with Paramore, will be the guests of Taylor Swift's first show back on the road at the Glendale Farm Stadium in Arizona on Mar. 18, 2023.

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