Hayley Williams of Paramore has launched 17 new songs at this time as a shock. The tracks should not but described as being a part of a selected challenge or upcoming album, however she did add them in a single go to her web site, hayleywilliams.net, behind a password-protected immediate. To obtain the password, followers should buy the brand new “Ego” shade of semi-permanent hair dye from Williams’ firm Good Dye Young.
The 17 songs Williams uploaded look like correct studio recordings spanning pop, indie rock, people, alt-rock, and extra. Monitor titles embrace “Kill Me,” “Unfavourable Self Discuss,” and “Discovery Channel” – the latter of which interpolates Bloodhound Gang’s 1999 single “The Unhealthy Contact.” At the least considered one of Williams’ songs, “Mirtazapine,” aired on Nashville public radio station WNXP final week and obtained its live debut throughout Bleachers’ set at Newport People Pageant this previous weekend, throughout which Williams made a shock look.
Along with the songs, Williams’ web site additionally features a folder labeled “Misc.” Inside are photographs of a t-shirt studying “Hayley Williams Is My Favourite Band” (a play on Paramore’s merch), an image of lyrics scrawled in a coloring e-book, a stay video of the band Phoenix, and a voice observe of a kid saying, “I’m sorry that you just’re going via one thing exhausting!”
Again in 2020, Williams launched her debut solo album Petals for Armor and the three-track Petals for Armor: Self-Serenades EP. She adopted it up with FLOWERS for VASES / descansos the subsequent 12 months, which she described as “a prequel, or some kind of detour between elements 1 and a pair of of Petals.” Since then, Paramore dropped their fifth studio album, This Is Why, in 2023.
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