Artist:
Hayley Williams
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
59:00
Record Label:
Post Atlantic
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 28, 2025
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Hayley Williams
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
59:00
Record Label:
Post Atlantic
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 28, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: As the frontwoman for pop-punk heroes Paramore, Hayley Williams has spent her entire professional life in the major-label system, having first signed to Atlantic Records in 2003 when she was just 15. But following the worldwide arena tour for Paramore’s 2023 album, This Is Why, the contract expired, and she returned to her concurrent solo career as a fully independent artist for the first time, completely unburdened by the weight of commercial expectations—and from any conventional notions of what even constitutes a proper album. In August 2025, she dropped a whopping 17 new tracks online at random, inviting fans to create their own playlist permutations. “I really did want to shirk the responsibility,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe at the time. “I was kind of interested in other people’s perspective, also, because there’s just a point where you’re in the eye of that storm, you’re making things, you’re going through shit, and you can’t possibly have perspective.”
However, four weeks after that initial data dump, Williams finalized her own version of the tracklist and officially corralled those songs under the title of Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. You can understand why sequencing these tracks was such a daunting task: Ego Death feels a lot like listening to five-disc CD changer stocked with ’90s faves on shuffle mode, bounding between fuzzy Breeders-styled odes to anti-depressants (“Mirtazapine”), No Doubt-like tropical-pop mash notes (“Love Me Different”), and pure Alanis-worthy catharsis (“Hard”); she even works the chorus of Bloodhang Gang’s “The Bad Touch” into the grungy folk dirge “Discovery Channel,” transforming the original’s horndog hook into a raw expression of animalistic lust.
But while Ego Death draws from a kaleidoscopic pop palette, Williams’ punk-rock heart beats loudly throughout, as she takes side-eyed shots at the Nashville establishment on the deceptively breezy title track, while using the gothic trip-hop backdrop and deadpan Lana-esque vocal of “True Believer” to paint a damning portrait of so-called Christians who “pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children.” As a parting gift, Williams appends Ego Death’s original 17 loosies with the previously unreleased “Parachute,” which seamlessly folds Williams’ punk past and alt-pop present into a triumphant closer that sounds like Chappell Roan working up the nerve to stage-dive into the pit at Riot Fest.
However, four weeks after that initial data dump, Williams finalized her own version of the tracklist and officially corralled those songs under the title of Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. You can understand why sequencing these tracks was such a daunting task: Ego Death feels a lot like listening to five-disc CD changer stocked with ’90s faves on shuffle mode, bounding between fuzzy Breeders-styled odes to anti-depressants (“Mirtazapine”), No Doubt-like tropical-pop mash notes (“Love Me Different”), and pure Alanis-worthy catharsis (“Hard”); she even works the chorus of Bloodhang Gang’s “The Bad Touch” into the grungy folk dirge “Discovery Channel,” transforming the original’s horndog hook into a raw expression of animalistic lust.
But while Ego Death draws from a kaleidoscopic pop palette, Williams’ punk-rock heart beats loudly throughout, as she takes side-eyed shots at the Nashville establishment on the deceptively breezy title track, while using the gothic trip-hop backdrop and deadpan Lana-esque vocal of “True Believer” to paint a damning portrait of so-called Christians who “pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children.” As a parting gift, Williams appends Ego Death’s original 17 loosies with the previously unreleased “Parachute,” which seamlessly folds Williams’ punk past and alt-pop present into a triumphant closer that sounds like Chappell Roan working up the nerve to stage-dive into the pit at Riot Fest.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Ice In My OJ
(02:12)
2 . Glum (03:11)
3 . Kill Me (02:48)
4 . Whim (03:36)
5 . Mirtazapine (03:21)
6 . isappearing Man (03:29)
7 . Love Me Different (03:32)
8 . Brotherly Hate (02:49)
9 . Negative Self Talk (04:13)
10 . Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (03:19)
11 . Hard (02:57)
12 . iscovery Channel (03:18)
13 . True Believer (03:49)
14 . Zissou (02:56)
15 . ream Girl In Shibuya (04:22)
16 . Blood Bros (02:48)
17 . I Won't Quit On You (03:20)
18 .Parachute (03:40)
2 . Glum (03:11)
3 . Kill Me (02:48)
4 . Whim (03:36)
5 . Mirtazapine (03:21)
6 . isappearing Man (03:29)
7 . Love Me Different (03:32)
8 . Brotherly Hate (02:49)
9 . Negative Self Talk (04:13)
10 . Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (03:19)
11 . Hard (02:57)
12 . iscovery Channel (03:18)
13 . True Believer (03:49)
14 . Zissou (02:56)
15 . ream Girl In Shibuya (04:22)
16 . Blood Bros (02:48)
17 . I Won't Quit On You (03:20)
18 .Parachute (03:40)
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