Hayley Williams in ‘Glum’ video. – Credit: youtube/Hayley Williams
Late last month, Hayley Williams surprised fans by uploading 17 new songs to a website audio player for customers of her haircare company. The tracks later hit streaming services as standalone singles on Aug. 1, and now another one of them, “Glum,” has its own, nostalgia-inducing music video.
The video — co-directed by Paramore’s Zac Farro with AJ Gibboney and shot on 35 mm Kodak film — captures the yellow-haired musician strolling through a garden, sitting pensively in an attic, wandering through a house mid-remodel, and strumming a guitar from a hallway as she sings along to the track. Like the song, it carries a retro, late-Nineties energy.
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“Do you ever feel so alone/That you could implode and no one would know?” sings Williams on the chorus. “And when you look around and nobody’s home/But you wanna go back to wherever we’re from.”
The drop of the 17 singles, via her indie venture Post Atlantic, marks the first solo release from Williams since Flowers for Vases/Descansos in 2021. In an Instagram post over the weekend, the singer seemed to allude that the songs would be part of an album.
“Fell asleep trying to post, didn’t save it to drafts, forgot which pics I wanted to include, basically just wanted to say thank you for listening to the 17 new songs,” Williams wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “I have been at the creek listening to potential track-list orders and still trying to create my own. It’s almost as hard as posting a photodump.”
Last week, she dropped the video for the track “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” which captured the singer dancing alongside Nashville Representative Justin Jones.
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