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Hayley Williams is a legend. Let's get into her new untitled project with 17 NEW tracks. Definitely gonna need your help breaking these down :)

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Hayley Williams Untitled 2025 Project FIRST REACTION

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Madi

Yay! I'm excited to watch this one!

Renee S Smith

I had heard some about this album and I do hear it being about a break up potentially.

Christopher West

Love this! I think the impact really changes depending on the order in which you listen (I followed the order on her website) - very clever not to define the order as it means every experience is different! Knowing the implications of some of these tracks and the (possible) personal context makes it even more impactful: Hayley was in a relationship with Taylor (that's what "Liar" on Paramore's most recent album is about), but it seems that might have ended (if the tracks here are about him). Hayley is now very open about her mental health struggles too - she has PTSD, generalised anxiety, impacted by generational trauma, etc. Some of that is religious; she's still a practising Christian but has significant issues with how the institution behaves - that's what "True Believer" is about. I think "Kill Me" (which is a clever play on and subtle critique of the "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" idea), "True Believer", and "Mitrazipine" are my favourite tracks!

Ashlee

This project is definitely more "fun" and experimental than her previous two solo albums. Her first solo album "Petals for Armor" is following her divorce, where she was cheated on, and then she fell into depression, alcoholism, and an eating disorder (which is why Paramores album "After Laughter" had dark lyrics) - Petals For Armor discusses these themes and her processing the divorce etc. Her second album, "Flowers for Vases", is the sequel to Petals for Armor. Hayley had talked in an interview about how she felt Petals for Armor was her finding peace and being "done healing" but then seeing that she in fact was not done, nor close to being done healing, and the result of that was her Flowers for Vases album which discusses even deeper mental health themes along with batteling with the idea that she may have lost the ability to have a family following her divorce - she discusses/sings about this in Flowers for Vases. Highly recommended those two albums (will need to listen in order to understand her concepts), they are extremely introspective in concept. The sound, especially in Petals for Armor, is experimental while in Flowers for Vases it takes a more acoustic approach as she touches on deeper subjects. Love the reaction!!

Ashlee

Also - Ethel Cain just dropped her prequel album to "Preachers Daughter" out today! Would love you to take a listen to her new album, however you'll need to listen to Preacher's Daughter first to understand the themes!

rit

true believer is the best written song of the year. i said it. would definitely recommend you listen to billie holiday's "strange fruit," the song she references. such an important capsule of jim crow america

Jade

True Religion might be my favorite song on this record, and fun fact, it's not the first time Hayley has sung about stuff like that. For some background (bc I'm a nerd and have loved Paramore forever), the band lost 2 members back in 2011 before their 3rd album, mainly because of creative differences. Hayley and the rest of the band members had always been openly religious, but she had been questioning her faith and looking at religion from a more skeptical lens at the time. She wanted to use music as an outlet for those thoughts, but 2 of the members thought it was blasphemous and left the band (there were other reasons, of course, but I remember that being one of them). Hayley's just always been a very intelligent & articulate person in my opinion, and I love that she isn't afraid to be candid about topics like religion and racism in her music.

Craig

Ik This is an OLDER video but I hope you got to hear good old days by her