{"id":2112495,"date":"2025-10-24T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2112495"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:39:18","slug":"hayley-williams-shares-uplifting-new-single-good-ol-days-and-covers-her-grandfathers-song-on-new-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hayley-williams-shares-uplifting-new-single-good-ol-days-and-covers-her-grandfathers-song-on-new-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams shares uplifting new single, &#8216;Good Ol&#8217; Days&#8217; and covers her grandfather&#8217;s song on new release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/paramore\">Paramore\u2019s<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> has today (October 24) shared an uplifting new song, \u2018Good Ol\u2019 Days\u2019 \u2013 check out the new single below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"284\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/hayley-williams-ego-singles-release-review-3882524\"><b>Hayley Williams\u2019 surprise 17-song release is a bold choose-your-own-adventure through hope and heartache<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new track appears on Williams\u2019 surprise 17-song <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-officially-releases-new-album-ego-death-at-a-bachelorette-party-and-shares-pensive-new-track-parachute-3888509\">solo album \u2018Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party\u2019 which she released digitally in August<\/a>, with a physical release coming in November (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.hayleywilliams.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-order here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Good Ol\u2019 Days\u2019 was written by Williams alongside Daniel James, who produced it with Brian Robert Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The song\u2019s chorus sees Williams singing \u201c<em>Who knew the hard times \/ Were the good ol\u2019 days?\u201d<\/em> is a nod to Paramore\u2019s \u2018Hard Times\u2019, which was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new song here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hayley Williams - Good Ol&#039; Days (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YTUL3W1ociU?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>Williams\u2019 grandfather also appears on Williams\u2019 new single via a voice mail recording.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/paramore-members-help-hayley-williams-grandfather-release-album-made-70s-3828900\">Williams and Paramore came together to help finally release an album recorded by\u00a0Williams\u2019 grandfather in the 1970s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>When Williams heard the recordings, she decided to help him release them commercially for the first time, with the band\u2019s drummer Zac Farro agreeing to release the album on his own label Congrats Records.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u2018Grand Man\u2019, the album was released on February 14. Now, Williams has reinterpreted one of her grandfather\u2019s tracks which is available on a B-side of a new 7 inch release that\u2019s available with a deluxe release of Rusty\u2019s album.<\/p>\n<p>As per\u00a0<em>Norman Records<\/em>, \u201cThe 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.\u201d They describe it as a \u201ctender tribute to a never-before-recorded song from her grandfather\u2019s archives.\u201d You can pre-order the record <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.normanrecords.com\/records\/212455-rusty-williams-grand-man-deluxe-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rusty has previously made an appearance on his granddaughter\u2019s 2020 solo album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/hayley-williams-petals-for-armor-review-2661702\">Petals For Armor<\/a>\u2019, when Hayley sampled his song \u2018Friends Or Lovers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect anything, and I\u2019m too old to be famous,\u201d Rusty Williams said. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>NME\u00a0<\/i>gave Williams\u2019 latest record a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/hayley-williams-ego-singles-release-review-3882524\">glowing five-star review<\/a>, writing: \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 class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rusty Williams - Knocking (At Your Door)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZ9cK_xpz2Q?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>Recently, Williams <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-and-jack-antonoff-discuss-corporations-monopolising-concert-industry-3899765\">also sat down with Jack Antonoff where both took aim at the large corporations trying to \u201cmonopolise\u201d live music.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jack-antonoff-hayley-williams-musicians-on-musicians-1235443676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>\u2019s musicians-on-musicians series, the pop producer sat down with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> to discuss their respective careers, with the conversation drifting towards changes in live music which the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bleachers\">Bleachers<\/a> frontman had seen \u201cfrom every level\u201d in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat fucks me off is, why is drawing a few hundred people not an honest living?\u201d he asked the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/paramore\">Paramore<\/a> frontwoman, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/paramores-hayley-williams-calls-out-ticketmaster-on-stage-in-dublin-3431002\">who\u2019s also been vocal about the mounting costs of live music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou and your band can\u2019t 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,\u201d Antonoff fumed.<\/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><\/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>Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams has today (October 24) shared an uplifting new song, \u2018Good Ol\u2019 Days\u2019 \u2013 check out the new single below. 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