Paramore’s Hayley Williams has today (October 24) shared an uplifting new song, ‘Good Ol’ Days’ – check out the new single below.
The new track appears on Williams’ surprise 17-song solo album ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’ which she released digitally in August, with a physical release coming in November (pre-order here).
‘Good Ol’ Days’ was written by Williams alongside Daniel James, who produced it with Brian Robert Jones.
The song’s chorus sees Williams singing “Who knew the hard times / Were the good ol’ days?” is a nod to Paramore’s ‘Hard Times’, which was released in 2017.
Check out the new song here:
Williams’ grandfather also appears on Williams’ new single via a voice mail recording.
Earlier this year, Williams and Paramore came together to help finally release an album recorded by Williams’ grandfather in the 1970s.
Rusty Williams, now 78 years-old, first laid down the tracks in question almost 50 years ago, but even his granddaughter was unaware of their existence as they went unreleased at the time.
When Williams heard the recordings, she decided to help him release them commercially for the first time, with the band’s drummer Zac Farro agreeing to release the album on his own label Congrats Records.
Titled ‘Grand Man’, the album was released on February 14. Now, Williams has reinterpreted one of her grandfather’s tracks which is available on a B-side of a new 7 inch release that’s available with a deluxe release of Rusty’s album.
As per Norman Records, “The deluxe edition pairs the original album with a bonus 7 inch, featuring two previously unreleased recordings by Rusty on the A-side and a new interpretation by Hayley Williams on the B-side.” They describe it as a “tender tribute to a never-before-recorded song from her grandfather’s archives.” You can pre-order the record here.
Rusty has previously made an appearance on his granddaughter’s 2020 solo album ‘Petals For Armor’, when Hayley sampled his song ‘Friends Or Lovers’.
“I didn’t expect anything, and I’m too old to be famous,” Rusty Williams said. “But I just want to know someone liked what I did, and to be touched by whatever the hell they are listening to. I want people to see how it felt when things were real.”
NME gave Williams’ latest record a glowing five-star review, writing: “As with almost every era of Hayley Williams’ career, this new release has come with questions about the future of Paramore. The determined lyrics on the tender ‘I Won’t Quit On You’ should be all the reassurance worried fans need, but if that’s not enough, there’s plenty in this brilliant, swaggering new chapter to be excited about. These songs might be about missed second chances, but Williams is certainly making the most of hers.”
Recently, Williams also sat down with Jack Antonoff where both took aim at the large corporations trying to “monopolise” live music.
As part of Rolling Stone’s musicians-on-musicians series, the pop producer sat down with Hayley Williams to discuss their respective careers, with the conversation drifting towards changes in live music which the Bleachers frontman had seen “from every level” in recent years.
“What fucks me off is, why is drawing a few hundred people not an honest living?” he asked the Paramore frontwoman, who’s also been vocal about the mounting costs of live music.
“You and your band can’t turn a profit, and then we have to watch the companies that own all these rooms and monopolise the whole fucking thing and post billions of earnings,” Antonoff fumed.
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com ’
