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Paramore’s Hayley Williams blesses us with her first official solo single and we need to simmer in it


We’re ready for our queen (Picture: Sara Jaye Weiss/REX)

Paramore’s Hayley Williams has blessed us all with her first official solo single along with an otherworldly music video.

The Brick By Boring Brick singer released her song Simmer and we’re short of breath.

No, seriously, the first part is a whole lot of heavy breathing and trying to mimic it is tougher than it looks.

Simmer is the first single from Hayley’s debut solo album PETALS FOR ARMOR, which we can finally play non-stop on 8 May.

The Misery Business musician said of her upcoming album: ‘I’m so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project. Making it was a scary, empowering experience.

‘Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing PETALS FOR ARMOR. And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation.

‘I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records.’

She went on to talk about how it differs from Paramore.

‘This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more,’ the 31-year-old said. ‘I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record.

‘I like to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds and FEELS exactly as I’d hoped it would.

‘Now that it’s time to put it all out there, I can finally exhale. I’m excited to let people in to experience a different side of myself that I’ve only very recently become familiar with.’

Our favourite rock queen has sung solo material in the past, but they were mostly covers or made for soundtracks.

Teenagers was made for the movie Jennifer’s Body and Hayley even covered Nineteen for Tegan and Sara Present The Con X: Covers.

We’re already giddy with joy at the idea of rocking out to Paramore’s very own Hayley.

PETALS FOR ARMOR will be released on 8 May.



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