For over a decade, Hayley Williams sold gale-force emotional reckoning as the lead singer of Paramore, one of the most successful bands on the forefront of the mainstream emo revolution of the middle aughts. Hard-charging riffs carried her sweeping vocals and incisive lyrics across the country, building the band’s profile through endless touring. Paramore stayed […]
After 17 years of waiting, it’s Hayley Williams Day, and she is here to make the most of it. The Paramore singer released her debut solo full-length album, Petals for Armor, on May 8, and has now thrown in a music video for single “Dead Horse.” The video features many Hayley Williamses — in mirror […]
When Hayley Williams began making music, she insisted on being part of a band, fighting Atlantic after the label wanted to sign her solo. “There was a heated conversation with a team of people in which I said I would be just as happy to play these songs in Taylor’s basement for the rest of […]
When Hayley Williams started the pop-punk group Paramore at 15, all she wanted was to be in a band with her best guy friends. And for a while, that’s what she did. But as she grew into an icon for emo kids, touring worldwide and releasing platinum albums with her band, Paramore was disintegrating. The […]
As far as the world currently knows, Hayley Williams will release her first solo album on May 8. But in case 17 days is too long a wait (no matter that it’s already been three years since Paramore’s last album), Williams has now released ten songs off the project, titled Petals for Armor. She released […]
Thank goodness a gathering of four people is still okay in these times, because Hayley Williams just dropped her new song featuring the three members of boygenius. “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris” is Williams’s latest offering to precede her first solo album, Petals for Armor. The former Paramore singer was supposed to release a second EP-sized chunk of the […]
If each of the videos for Hayley Williams’s new songs exists in a shared universe, she’s gone from running naked in the woods and being pursued through a dark house, to being clothed in the woods and turning into a bird in a bright house, and now, for her latest solo single, she is safely […]
Well, well, well, we’ve got ourselves a Dual a Peep! Former Paramore front woman Hayley Williams is solo now, and has promised to release new music this year. For BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Williams covered Dua Lipa’s disco hit “Don’t Start Now.” Where Lipa was ebullient, Williams is somber and slinky: Don’t start caring […]
It’s liberation season for Hayley Williams. Formerly the knockout voice of Paramore, she is now the knockout voice of her own solo career — even if she’s still withholding the key changes from all of us. Following her debut single and its accompanying video, “Simmer,” Williams has dropped another steady and personal track in “Leave […]
Paramore’s journey from the beefy pop-punk of “Emergency” and “That’s What You Get” to the soul and pop-rock moves of “Ain’t It Fun” and “Hard Times” is a surprising turn, but not an unlikely one. You could sort of see a singer with the immense chops of a Hayley Williams not wanting to be confined […]
The frontwoman of Paramore is striking out on her own for a bit. The band had a four-year gap between their self-titled hit album and 2017’s After Laughter, and now Hayley Williams is releasing solo material for the first time. “Simmer” is her first single, and she’s dropped it with an accompanying music video in […]