Hayley Williams, lead singer of the band Paramore – one of those bands that no one here at Buddyhead cares about, managed to show her breasts to a few thousand people on Twitter the other day which is a pretty neat trick. Call in the Internet Investigation Team, poor Hayley’s been violated!
The photo was tweeted (twittered, twerped, whatever) on her account. It was quickly taken down and she posted this in response.
well… my night just changed drastically. got hacked. 7:52 PM May 27th via web
What she doesn’t explain is how she got “hacked”. It’s a mystery, certainly. But, as observed by certain blogs, the metadata stored by her digital camera shows that the picture was taken about eight minutes before it was uploaded to twitpic (which publicly stores photos for linked twitter accounts and the pictures cannot be made private) which rules out an “Oh. I meant to Direct Message this to my boyfriend” back pedal, unless she is colossally inept. So what’s more likely; that she snapped the photo and some evil hacker from the internet sensed the presence of nude pictures, broke into her computer, stole the photo, cracked her twitter password, uploaded the photo to twitpic and tweeted it for her (in less than ten minutes) or that she wanted some publicity and tweeted it herself and came up with this brilliant cover story to dodge responsibility and become the victim of the piece? Also, it seems to be kind of a blase reaction to having a “private” picture sent to all of your loyal fans, no?
It makes you wonder, don’t it?
Paramore, since I didn’t know and I doubt you do either, is a band from Tennessee, they recently ended a tour, are going on another tour with Tegan and Sara and New Found Glory (her boyfriend’s band) in July, and performed on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show within the last two weeks. Their music is mid tempo mall punk style pop with an exceedingly earnest overtone and long boring intros. This band has a song on the soundtrack for one of the three hundred “Twilight” sequels. In other words, Paramore is what can be described as unrelentingly average. Williams also did guest vocals on a Bobby Ray Simmons track, the Atlanta rapper B.o.B, that happens to be in the top ten of the Billboard Charts at the moment.
All of this is an enormous coincidence, of course.
Damn, tits again? When will the internet give me something different? What does this mean? I’m not sure, but whatever it is, I’m not buying it. There’s really nothing wrong with nudity, but the thing that is repulsive is that she probably didn’t think she was famous enough, looked around, and saw the things other types are doing for attention and made a move. Hell, the picture was even delivered by the same social network used to release the Blessed Nudes of Our Lady of Perpetual Armpit Hair. And now, Hayley gets an instant pass to have blogs and news/gossip items written about her (mostly) and her band. Either that or she’s just really dumb. Neither of these options is a very appetizing proposition, but somehow I don’t think she’s quite that much of a mouth breather.
The internet war cry has always been “Tits or GTFO”; prove you’re a girl (and defuse your power) by showing us your fun bags. You get the A+ for playing into their hands, Hayley, and for what? A gossip item that people will have forgotten about in a few days? Unless you mean to back it up and push your sexuality to the forefront, which the “OMG HAX!” excuse seems to indicate you will not, what was that for exactly? More followers on Twitter?
You’re just another girl who posted her tits. But didn’t you know? You still have to get the fuck out.
