By LoffMusic Editorial Staff – July 2025
Hayley Williams, Paramore’s lead singer and one of the most influential alt-rock voices of the last 20 years, has surprised the music world once again. This time it has not been through a record label or with a big promotional campaign: she has uploaded 17 new songs to her personal website, available only after buying a hair dye.
Yes, you read that right. Access to the themes is unlocked via a code that you only get when you purchase the new “Ego” color from their Good Dye Young cosmetics line. An unexpected, personal and totally Williams move.
💿 An intimate and unclassifiable capsule
The songs are not part, at least for now, of any announced album. But what we do know is that they are complete studio recordings that run through genres such as introspective pop, ethereal indie rock, confessional folk and the rawest alt-rock.
Some titles speak for themselves:
- Kill Me
- Negative Self Talk
- Discovery Channel (including a wink to The Bloodhound Gang)
- Mirtazapine, a song he premiered on WNXP and performed live last weekend during a surprise performance with Bleachers at the Newport Folk Festival.
The feeling when listening to them -because yes, we have already made the “sacrifice” of buying the dye- is that of spying on an emotional diary. They are songs that are not looking for hits or approval, but to say what can not be silenced.
🎨 Much more than music: art, vulnerability and ordered chaos.
Along with the topics, the website includes a section called “Misc.”, a sort of personal capsule that brings together elements such as:
- A T-shirt with the message “Hayley Williams Is My Favorite Band”.
- Handwritten letters on a coloring book
- A live video of Phoenix
- An audio of a child saying, “I’m sorry you’re going through something difficult.”
It is all part of a kind of parallel universe between the emotional and the artistic, a digital installation as visceral as it is carefully constructed.
🌹 From Paramore to the absolute self
Since making her solo debut with Petals for Armor in 2020 and its sequel FLOWERS for VASES / breaks in 2021, Hayley Williams has been making it clear that her musical identity is not limited to Paramore. Her last work with the band, This Is Why (2023), marked a triumphant return, but this new digital release reinforces her personal narrative: a woman who no longer needs labels or outside approvals.
