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Express Tribune
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Why did Hayley Williams delete her album before dropping 17 singles?
Hayley Williams is turning the album concept on its head. Just days ago, the Paramore frontwoman quietly uploaded 17 new songs to her website, each as a clickable file with password protection. There was no track list, no official album name, just raw audio files scattered like fragments of a desktop. Then, without warning, she took them all down. Now, the same 17 tracks have returned, not as an album, but as individually released singles through her new label, Post Atlantic. Fans hoping for a cohesive record will have to wait. Williams is adamant these are not meant to be sequenced. 'It's 17 songs. Seventeen singles,' reads the blunt confirmation across fan circles. No title. No order. Just music. The release marks her first major project since she and Paramore exited their longtime contract with Atlantic Records. Going fully independent, she's partnered with Secretly Distribution to drop the songs on streaming platforms, sidestepping traditional album cycles. Among the tracks is True Believer, a fiery critique of American evangelicalism, echoing her recent statements about the Christian Contemporary Music industry. Another focus track, GLUM, plays with vocal manipulation, transforming her signature voice into something glitchy and unfamiliar. Fans have latched onto songs like Ice in My OJ and Discovery Channel, the latter repurposing a chorus from the Bloodhound Gang's 1999 hit The Bad Touch. Rumours persist that the project is secretly titled Ego or Ego Death, but nothing official has been announced. Instead, Williams seems to be inviting listeners into a choose-your-own-album experience, one that challenges how music is consumed and categorised. In true Hayley fashion, she's thrown out the rulebook. And fans are left piecing together the story, one single at a time.
GMA Network
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Hayley Williams' 17 new songs are now on streaming platforms
Hayley Williams' new songs are now up on streaming platforms. In a surprise move, the Paramore vocalist dropped password-protected 17 new songs on her website earlier this week. Now on Spotify, the songs are part of 'Hayley Williams: The Playlist.' The 17 tracks are: 'Ice in My OJ,' 'Glum,' 'Kill Me,' 'Dream Girl in Shibuya,' 'Whim,' 'Mirtazapine,' 'Brotherly Hate' 'Love Me Different,' 'Negative Self Talk,' 'Disappearing Man,' 'Zissou,' 'Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,' 'Discovery Channel,' 'I Won't Quit on You,' 'Hard,' 'True Believer,' and 'Blood Bros.' Hayley is yet to announce whether the songs are part of a new album. The singer was featured in Taylor Swift's song 'Castles Crumbling,' from the album 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" in 2023. She previously teased going on a solo tour this year. Meanwhile, Paramore released their comeback album 'This is Why' in February 2023 and went on tour in support of it. The band joined Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024. —Nika Roque/JCB, GMA Integrated News
