jpAug 7, 2025
From “Still Into You” to “Dead Horse,” Hayley Williams rewrote her own love story — just not the part where she was the villain. A breakdown of selective memory, feminist branding, and lyrical gaslighting.
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https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/from-still-into-you-to-dead-horse-hayley-williams-and-the-ethics-of-the-rewrite/
From ‘Still Into You’ to ‘Dead Horse’: Hayley Williams and the Ethics of the Rewrite

Paramore’s “Still Into You” and Hayley Williams’s “Dead Horse” are meaningless on their own — but together, they decode the lie. One is a cipher, the other the key, and only side by side do they ex…

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