About 15 years ago,Taylor Swift and Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams were pals; they both lived in Nashville and got famous around the same time. Hayley says a song on the band's new album, This Is Why, coming out on Friday, was inspired by a moment she shared with Taylor.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Hayley says the song "Running Out of Time" came from a feeling she experienced the first time she went to Taylor's house.
"We were looking around her place and she was like, 'Oh, and this is my little closet where I keep gifts and things ... if I randomly am just, like, "I'm going to send them something," or I did something and they hosted me and I want to thank them,'" Hayley recalls Taylor saying. "And I was like, 'Oh my God, my life is so not together.' I was like, 'I can barely remember to send someone a card or flowers.'"
Hayley says even today, "There are still Christmas gifts at my house that I have not sent to my friends, just sitting there in the back of my closet."
She says "Running Out of Time" expresses her "wish that I was the person that just had ... all my s**t together and I was like, 'Oh, I had some extra time, so I'm just popping by with some flowers' ... that is my idealized self."
Hayley also tells Zane something about Taylor that we've heard from many of her friends and acquaintances. "She's a really good cook, by the way," she says. "She's a really good cook. She has taught me how to make stuff that I did not retain at all."
(The Taylor portion of Hayley's interview comes at the 27:23 mark. Video contains uncensored profanity.)