{"id":49933,"date":"2025-10-24T03:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/hayley-williams-releases-new-song-good-ol-days-listen\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:59:41","slug":"hayley-williams-releases-new-song-good-ol-days-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/hayley-williams-releases-new-song-good-ol-days-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Releases New Song \u2018Good Ol\u2019 Days\u2019: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The singer surprise-released the track before hitting the stage at <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s Musicians on Musicians event<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hayley-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hayley-williams\" data-tag=\"hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> is taking it back to hard times, or rather, the good old days. The singer surprise-released new R&amp;B-inflected song \u201cGood Ol\u2019 Days\u201d just before taking the stage at<em> Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/musicians-on-musicians-live-event-lineup-1235419917\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/musicians-on-musicians-live-event-lineup-1235419917\/\">Musicians on Musicians event<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHours before Williams was set to join Jack Antonoff for a conversation and performance at the Beacon Theater, the singer spammed her <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yelyahwilliams?igsh=OWM3ODlkbWhmaG9z\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yelyahwilliams?igsh=OWM3ODlkbWhmaG9z\">Instagram account<\/a> with pictures from Paramore\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-paramores-after-laughter-triumphs-via-shiny-pop-moody-lyrics-118538\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-paramores-after-laughter-triumphs-via-shiny-pop-moody-lyrics-118538\/\">After Laughter<\/a><\/em> era circa 2017. The inexplicable array of posts made sense after Williams released the trip hop track with lyrical and musical nods to the band\u2019s fifth album, especially lead single \u201cHard Times.\u201d In the chorus, Williams sings, \u201cWho knew the hard times were the good ol\u2019 days?\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hayley Williams - Good Ol&#039; Days (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YTUL3W1ociU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201dGood Ol\u2019 Days\u201d is Williams\u2019 latest single from her third studio album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/hayley-williams-ego-death-at-a-bachelorette-party-review-1235417437\/\">Ego Death at the Bachelorette Party<\/a><\/em>. The singer has been rolling out the full project in unconventional ways since she initially released it. Back in July, Williams shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-mirtazapine-new-songs-audio-player-1235395140\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-mirtazapine-new-songs-audio-player-1235395140\/\">17 songs<\/a> from the album as individual singles found on an old school web player. A month later, she officially shared the album title for <em>Ego<\/em> along with new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-parachute-video-1235423840\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-parachute-video-1235423840\/\">\u201cParachute.\u201d<\/a> The physical album arrives on Nov. 7 with \u201cGood Ol\u2019 Days\u201d and one more unannounced song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilliams just graced the November cover of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> with Antonoff for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jack-antonoff-hayley-williams-musicians-on-musicians-1235443676\/\">2025 Musicians on Musicians package<\/a>. At the event celebrating the series, the singer gave an impassioned performance of \u201cGood Ol\u2019 Days\u201d wearing rose-colored sunglasses in another reference to Paramore\u2019s <em>After Laughter<\/em>. Williams was as playful as her tongue-in-cheek lyrics; the song\u2019s bridge repeats \u201csecret love\u201d and \u201cwhat\u2019s in a name\u201d in a nod to her band name, which comes from the word for secret lover, \u201cparamour.\u201d She really is Miss Paramour.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayley-williams-good-ol-days-new-song-1235453400\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer surprise-released the track before hitting the stage at Rolling Stone\u2019s Musicians on Musicians event Hayley Williams is taking it back to hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}