{"id":806448,"date":"2020-04-16T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=985192"},"modified":"2020-04-16T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:44:57","slug":"hayley-williams-wrote-why-we-ever-at-her-lowest-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hayley-williams-wrote-why-we-ever-at-her-lowest-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Wrote \u2018Why We Ever\u2019 at Her \u2018Lowest Point\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9708742agW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hayley-williams\/\">Hayley Williams<\/a> has been steadily releasing tracks and EPs from her solo <em>Petals for Armor<\/em> project, culminating in a full-length album on May 8th. On Thursday, the singer shared her latest song, \u201cWhy We Ever,\u201d along with a lyric video Williams filmed last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Williams wrote on Instagram that \u201cWhy We Ever\u201d was one of the first songs she penned for her solo project. \u201cIn Dec 2018, I bought Pro Tools, an interface, and some speakers and decided to learn something new. These moments are from my first go at it (we\u2019re talking out of time\/phase\/tune\u2026 etc!\u2026).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_A5OLjpaTI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.1842696629213\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>She continues, \u201cI was at the lowest point I\u2019d been in some time. My sadness shows. Now I look back and credit this night as being the beginning of a new season of my life, where I hold myself accountable for learning to love better. I\u2019ve let myself down a lot in love. This was the start of recognizing my bad patterns and acknowledging that I\u2019m ready to grow out of them. Thank you @micahtawlks for helping finish and reimagine this one for the album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy We Ever\u201d is the ninth song released from&nbsp;<em>Petals for Armor<\/em>. In February, Williams released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/paramore-hayley-williams-cinnamon-video-948730\/\">the first EP<\/a> from the project, containing the tracks \u201cSimmer,\u201d \u201cCinnamon,\u201d \u201cLeave It Alone\u201d and more. Over the past month and a half, she\u2019s additionally shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-over-yet-single-977315\/\">\u201cOver Yet,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-my-friend-lyric-video-981066\/\">\u201cMy Friend,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-boygenius-roses-lotus-violet-iris-969755\/\">\u201cRoses\/Lotus\/Violet\/Iris,\u201d<\/a> a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/boygenius-julien-baker-phoebe-bridgers-lucy-dacus-interview-746128\/\">Boygenius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-why-we-ever-985192\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Williams has been steadily releasing tracks and EPs from her solo Petals for Armor project, culminating in a full-length album on May 8th. On Thursday, the singer shared her latest song, \u201cWhy We Ever,\u201d along with a lyric video Williams filmed last fall. Williams wrote on Instagram that \u201cWhy We Ever\u201d was one of [&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-806448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 23:31:08","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\/806448","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=806448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}