Paramore’s Hayley Williams drops 17 new songs on her website, surprises fans

Paramore’s Hayley Williams recently dropped a surprise for her fans, that made the already hot summer even hotter. Over the weekend, the singer released 17 new songs on her website, and fans were given access to them by using a code from Williams' Good Dye Young hair dye company.

Once entered, the code takes you to a rudimentary site featuring a pile of MP3 links to tracks including the meditative “True Believer” and “KillMe,” as well as the acoustic ballads “BloodBros,” “IWon’tQuitOnYou” and “NegativeSelfTalk” and the sunshiny pop bops “EDAABP” and “BrotherlyHate.”


The majority of the songs have a homemade, reflective vibe, with Williams performing and falling into a quasi-hip-hop cadence on the occasionally floaty and screamy "IceInMyOJ” and over what seems like a drum machine beat, on the mid-tempo rocker “Hard,” on which she sings, “I got married once in combat losing/ Only listen to testosterone music/ I had to kill my feminine just to do it/ To get to you, I had to go through you.”

Williams had not provided any additional comments on the release at the time of its release, including revealing if it is meant as a full, proper follow-up to either her 2020 debut solo album, Petals for Armor, or its more folk-tinged 2021 sequel, Flowers for Vases/ Descansos.

The website includes the new songs along with a "Misc" folder that includes a 2017 performance video from Monterrey, Mexico, what appears to be a lyric sheet, a picture of a T-shirt that reads, "Hayley Williams is my favorite band," and a short audio clip of a young child saying, "I'm sorry that you're going through something hard."

Among the other songs in the pop-up collection are: “DisappearingMan,” “Whim,” “True Believer,” “Glum,” “LoveMeDifferent,” “DreamGirlInShibuya,” “Zissou” and “DisoveryChannel,” which features a lyrical ode to the chorus from Bloodhoud Gang’s 1999 hit “The Bad Touch.”

Earlier this year, she released the Moses Sumney collab “I Like It I Like It” and last week she debuted the Liz Phair-esque rocker “Mirtazapine” — an ode to the antidepressant commonly known as Remeron — on Nashville Public Radio’s WNXP. She also performed the song live for the first time with Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday.