{"id":2238145,"date":"2026-01-16T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2238145"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:22:32","slug":"hayley-williams-covers-her-grandfather-rustys-song-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hayley-williams-covers-her-grandfather-rustys-song-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Covers Her Grandfather Rusty&#8217;s Song: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last year, Paramore star Hayley Williams helped her grandfather Rusty release <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2292933\/paramore-members-help-hayley-williams-grandpa-finally-release-the-album-he-made-in-the-70s\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grand Man<\/a><\/em>, the previously unreleased LP that he recorded back in the &#8217;70s. Hayley also recorded a cover of Rusty&#8217;s song &#8220;Friends Or Lovers,&#8221; and it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2327550\/hayley-williams-shares-new-song-good-ol-days-covers-her-grandpa-on-upcoming-7\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came out on vinyl<\/a> back in November. Now, the deluxe edition of <em>Grand Man<\/em> is out, and that cover finally hits streaming. <\/p>\n<p>Hayley Williams recorded her version of &#8220;Friends Or Lovers&#8221; with herself on lead vocals and synth, her Paramore bandmate Zac Farro on drums, and Brittany Howard on background vocals, flute, and acoustic 12-string. It&#8217;s a nice little &#8217;70s soft-rock love songs, and Hayley sings the hell out of it. Listen to her version below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friends Or Lovers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R35dq9x7JNc?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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Hayley telling Stereogum nepo-grandpa correspondent Rachel Brown all about Rusty.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hayley Williams\u2019 grandad finally released his debut album\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUVxrHD2Woo?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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Grand Man<\/em> deluxe is out now on Congrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Paramore star Hayley Williams helped her grandfather Rusty release Grand Man, the previously unreleased LP that he recorded back in the &#8217;70s. Hayley also recorded a cover of Rusty&#8217;s song &#8220;Friends Or Lovers,&#8221; and it came out on vinyl back in November. Now, the deluxe edition of Grand Man is out, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2238146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Hayley-Williams-Covers-Her-Grandfather-Rustys-Song-Listen.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238145","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=2238145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238147,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238145\/revisions\/2238147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}