{"id":1968068,"date":"2025-08-19T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968068"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:30:38","slug":"watch-hayley-williams-existential-new-video-for-glum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-hayley-williams-existential-new-video-for-glum\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hayley Williams&#8217; existential new video for &#8216;Glum&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> has released a new music video for \u2018Glum\u2019 \u2013 check it out below.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directed by her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/paramore\">Paramore<\/a> bandmate Zac Farro, the cinematic \u2018Glum\u2019 video echoes the song\u2019s themes of existentialism. Shot entirely on the film, the cinematic clip sees Williams sporting bright yellow hair as she wanders an empty house, laying on the hardwood floors, walking through a hollow garden and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Do you ever feel so alone \/ That you could implode and no one would know? \/ And when you look around and nobody\u2019s home \/ That you wanna go back to wherever we\u2019re from \/ Wherever we\u2019re from<\/em>,\u201d Hayley Williams sings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hayley Williams - Glum (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iP3w2GvHNtw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The track is the latest of her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-has-just-surprise-released-a-new-17-song-album-ego-3881334\">recent 17-song surprise release<\/a> \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-new-songs-officially-released-on-streaming-platforms-3882058\">which isn\u2019t packaged as an album but rather 17 separate, standalone singles<\/a> \u2013 to receive a music video, following \u2018Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party\u2019 just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lovingly referred to as \u2018Ego\u2019, the 17-song collection could seemingly be re-packaged as an album, according to a recent Instagram post from Williams: \u201cI have been at the creek listening to potential track-list orders and still trying to create my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether the songs will form an eventual album, or if they\u2019re all part of a larger upcoming release remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNdbswLR1SI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The releases marked the Paramore front woman\u2019s first new music she became an independent artist when her record deal with Warner\/Atlantic ended. She first <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-has-just-surprise-released-a-new-17-song-album-ego-3881334\">previewed them for fans on her website for a limited time<\/a>.\u00a0Later, she released <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-new-songs-officially-released-on-streaming-platforms-3882058\">all 17 songs on streaming platforms as individual singles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was dubbed the \u2018Ego\u2019 album, and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-new-album-ego-sparks-fears-of-paramore-split-3882005\">sparked fears of a Paramore split among fans<\/a>. Laced throughout the project are cryptic lyrics hinting at a potential breakup between her and Paramore guitarist Taylor York, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/paramores-hayley-williams-and-taylor-york-confirm-relationship-3320543\">she confirmed she was dating in 2022<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that neither York or Williams has addressed rumours of a split.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Shutler wrote in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/hayley-williams-ego-singles-release-review-3882524\">glowing five-star review of Williams\u2019 17-song collection<\/a> for <em>NME<\/em>: \u201cAs with almost every era of Hayley Williams\u2019 career, this new release has come with\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-new-album-ego-sparks-fears-of-paramore-split-3882005\">questions about the future of Paramore<\/a>. The determined lyrics on the tender \u2018I Won\u2019t Quit On You\u2019 should be all the reassurance worried fans need, but if that\u2019s not enough, there\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Williams has released a new music video for \u2018Glum\u2019 \u2013 check it out below. Co-directed by her Paramore bandmate Zac Farro, the cinematic \u2018Glum\u2019 video echoes the song\u2019s themes of existentialism. Shot entirely on the film, the cinematic clip sees Williams sporting bright yellow hair as she wanders an empty house, laying on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21935,21939],"class_list":["post-1968068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-indie","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Watch-Hayley-Williams-existential-new-video-for-Glum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}