Hayley Williams Shows Us Success is not just External

Hayley Williams recently revealed that she briefly quit Paramore in 2015, due to depression.

I thought the revelation was surprising.

But I also think it shows us something very important: success isn't just externally determined. You can have every success out there, yet if you feel unwell inside, you may not be able to feel any of that happiness. You may even feel like you need to walk away from it all.

I think it's time society had a conversation over this topic.

Hayley Williams of Paramore and her Take on Miley at the VMAs

Hayley Williams of Paramore has become one of the latest people to publicly comment on Miley Cyrus's VMA controversy.

"It seems like more people are focusing on the trashiness or the dancing, the clothes. But I, actually, am uncomfortable with the racial aspect of it. I feel like she’s sort of taking a culture that isn’t really hers and sort of using it as an accessory, and that actually bothers me more," she said.

There were just so many things wrong with that performance. For me, the number one wrong thing will always be her attempt to push our culture down the drain, and it's just one more act in that direction from her recently. But there were definitely more wrongs than one in there.

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