The singer also seemed to tease a tour on her interactive website Friday
Hayley Williams revisited her excellent summer album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, with the release of a physical version of the album, and the streaming-service drop of “Showbiz.”
“In the fog / In the flood beams / On a lark / In their midst / Our silhouettes kiss,” sings Williams in the chorus. “Guess that’s showbiz / Guess that’s curtains / Was it just showbiz?”
Williams teamed up with producer Daniel James to create the track, which serves as the closing song on the complete edition of Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. She first teased the release on her retro-inspired website, where fans spotted a “Trash” folder containing a file labeled “hitmeup.jpg.” Inside was a list of cities — including Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Baltimore, plus several in Europe — hinting at a possible tour tied to the project.
“I would write the lyrics and feel really uncomfortable about it, but then the processing all happened a lot quicker for me this time around,” Williams told Jack Antonoff during Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians cover story. ” I would look back at three weeks ago and be like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s what that meant.’ … I had that with ‘Whim.’ That song explains so much about how I view relationships, and I think my downfall in them and the tendency to sabotage.”
Over the summer, Rolling Stone‘s Maya Georgi said that Williams has “never sounded more certain with a sonic landscape that is all her own.” Last month, Williams surprise-released new R&B-inflected song “Good Ol’ Days” just before taking the stage at Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians event in New York.
