{"id":806224,"date":"2020-04-09T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=981066"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:48:28","slug":"hayley-williams-waxes-nostalgic-for-her-pals-in-my-friend-lyric-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hayley-williams-waxes-nostalgic-for-her-pals-in-my-friend-lyric-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Waxes Nostalgic for Her Pals in \u2018My Friend\u2019 Lyric Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9718943baw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hayley-williams\/\">Hayley Williams<\/a> is practicing social-distancing at home like the rest of us, but she\u2019s still found a way to share a new song and visual for her <em>Petals for Armor <\/em>project.<\/p>\n<p>The track, \u201cMy Friend,\u201d will be featured on her second <em>Petals for Armor&nbsp;<\/em>EP, with the full 15-track album \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paramore\">Paramore<\/a> singer\u2019s first solo LP \u2014 due to arrive on May 8th via Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Friend\u201d was released with a lyric video full of footage from when Williams was recording and promoting the album prior to the extended coronavirus quarantine. We see clips of her hanging in the studio with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paramore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramore\" data-tag=\"paramore\">Paramore<\/a> bandmates and collaborators Joey Howard and Taylor York (who co-wrote and produced the song, respectively), as well as scenes with her hair and makeup artist Brian J. O\u2019Connor, who she referred to as her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yelyahwilliams\/status\/1248282104489746435?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cride or dye\u201d<\/a> in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Williams released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/paramore-hayley-williams-cinnamon-video-948730\/\">first batch<\/a> of&nbsp;<em>Petals for Armor<\/em> tracks in February, featuring five songs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-petals-for-armor-simmer-940942\/\">\u201cSimmer,\u201d<\/a> \u201cCinnamon\u201d and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-leave-it-alone-video-945478\/\"> \u201cLeave It Alone.\u201d<\/a> More recently, she shared the single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-boygenius-roses-lotus-violet-iris-969755\/\">\u201cRoses\/Lotus\/Violet\/Iris,<\/a>\u201d featuring backing vocals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phoebe-bridgers\/\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/julien-baker\">Julien Baker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lucy-dacus\">Lucy Dacus<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/boygenius\/\">Boygenius<\/a>. (She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-phoebe-bridgers-smoke-signals-979899\/\">covered<\/a> Bridgers\u2019 song \u201cSmoke Signals\u201d this week.) While in quarantine, she filmed herself doing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KL6UKhr4b84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">aerobics workout<\/a> to another new song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-over-yet-single-977315\/\">\u201cOver Yet.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-my-friend-lyric-video-981066\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Williams is practicing social-distancing at home like the rest of us, but she\u2019s still found a way to share a new song and visual for her Petals for Armor project. The track, \u201cMy Friend,\u201d will be featured on her second Petals for Armor&nbsp;EP, with the full 15-track album \u2014 the Paramore singer\u2019s first solo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 18:13:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}