{"id":807251,"date":"2020-05-08T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=996273"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:15:09","slug":"hayley-williams-drops-zac-farro-directed-music-video-for-dead-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hayley-williams-drops-zac-farro-directed-music-video-for-dead-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Drops Zac Farro-Directed Music Video for \u2018Dead Horse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/hayley-williams-dead-horse-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rollingstone.com\/t\/hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams\u2019<\/a> long-awaited solo debut album,&nbsp;<em>Petals for Armor<\/em>, is out now, and to celebrate its release on Friday, the singer shared a vibrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\">music video<\/a> for the track \u201cDead Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paramore\/\">Paramore<\/a> bandmate Zac Farro, the visual takes some Eighties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kate-bush\">Kate Bush<\/a>-esque inspiration in its eye-catching lighting, costuming and color, as Williams recalls her past struggles with depression and feeling inadequate in her relationships. \u201cHeld my breath for a decade\/Dyed my hair blue to match my lips\/Cool of me to try\/Pretty cool I\u2019m still alive,\u201d she sings, referencing her own \u201ccool girl\u201d image as the lead singer of Paramore for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Williams also shared a special message to go along with the album\u2019s release: \u201c<em>Petals For Armor<\/em> is very special to me and it encapsulates a moment in time that I am always going to hold dear. I learned a lot of lessons writing this album\u2026 some of them I am still learning. I wrestled with my rage, defeated apathy, and felt the full spectrum of my femininity. My stubborn heart softened up to let out rotted feelings and other feelings grew. I even fell (not dove) deeply in love, in spite of the fear that love could be hopeless.&nbsp; Don\u2019t be fooled though, I am still a fantastical mess!\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">She continued: \u201cOur lives are never neatly wrapped up and tied with a bow. The stories are infinite, with pain and hope tangled up in each of them. I am fully surrendering these particular stories now to all of you, in effort to best live (and write about) the next ones\u2026 Thank you again for caring. You didn\u2019t owe me that. I am full of love for you. Now, just enjoy the damn music!\u201d<\/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-drops-zac-farro-directed-music-video-for-dead-horse-996273\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Williams\u2019 long-awaited solo debut album,&nbsp;Petals for Armor, is out now, and to celebrate its release on Friday, the singer shared a vibrant music video for the track \u201cDead Horse.\u201d Directed by her Paramore bandmate Zac Farro, the visual takes some Eighties, Kate Bush-esque inspiration in its eye-catching lighting, costuming and color, as Williams recalls [&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-807251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 16:55:05","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\/807251","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=807251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}