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Hayley Williams from Paramore doesn’t want to be a pop star. The 24-year-old singer, who helped form her band nine years ago, has seen her profile gradually rise, as can happen when you rack up five top 40 hits in addition to singing the hook to B.o.B’s quadruple-platinum “Airplanes.” But when Paramore’s future was in doubt following the 2010 departure of two members, Williams didn’t even consider taking the golden parachute of a solo career.

“I’ve never once thought about being a solo artist,” says Williams. “That’s not what I want. It’s never been what I want. When we were taking that time away – when we figured out what Paramore was, what we were gonna do, what we wanted – it was more like, ‘Do I even want to do music anymore?’ It wasn’t ‘Do I want to go do a solo project?’ Because I don’t really want to do a solo project. That sounds lonely. That sounds awful.”

Even as her band reclaims the momentum that was interrupted when the Farro brothers left, though, Williams continues to wink at the pop world, with its own three-to-five-minute slices. But even Williams’s extracurricular activities are ultimately done with Paramore in mind.

“Anything I’ve ever done outside the band has, to me, always been for the band. Like, if I’m doing this song [“Stay the Night,” at No. 51] with [dance producer] Zedd right now, 50 percent of it is definitely because I love the song,” she says. “But the other 50 percent is because I want people to know who Paramore is. I want people to see my name but then right next to it, it says ‘from Paramore.’”

Williams adds, “I use those opportunities to bring people back to a Paramore show and at some point enter our world and realize that there's more to it than the girl with red hair that sings.”

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[Benjamin]

I actually respect this girl quite a lot.

[Joelle.]

Good on her, and it helps that her features are always flawless.

[Jordan.]

Hayley better pimp herself out

[King Gizzard]

She'd be scary good as a solo artist, one of the best voices around, but glad she sticks to Paramore

[Shaun]

popstar wants promo, what a story

[Z]

Hayley Williams: "I do features because I want people to know who I am"

[Saph]

who?

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Originally Posted by Saph

who?

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[Saph]

she looks a bit like Lacey from Rock of Love

[Gstar]

^ she actually does

I respect what she's doing

[Z]

If she wanted to raise the profile of Paramore, then Paramore would feature on other artists' tracks. It's like if Nicole Scherzinger claimed she was raising the profile of the Pussycat Dolls by doing that duet with Enrique Iglesias.

[Brother Leon]

Josh Farro says otherwise