In her new music video, Paramore vocalist and Nashvillian Hayley Williams roams the city, sits with Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and scrawls on a white wall: “I still believe in Nashville.”
Williams released the music video for her song “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party” on August 5, a tune that she recently dropped with a batch of 17 new singles.
Pop singer Hayley Williams dropped 17 new singles on Aug. 1, 2025.
The music video, directed by Zachary Gray, sees Williams sitting in the backseat of a car as she rides through the city. She stares out at the Cumberland River, dances as Rep. Jones sits nearby, and galavants down Nashville’s party strip Broadway with headphones.
“I’ll be the biggest star / At this racist country singer’s bar,” Williams sings. “No use shooting for the moon / No use chasing waterfalls.”
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Williams throws darts, dances with statues, smokes a cigarette, chomps into a hotdog and sings karaoke. The moments of joy and lightness are interspersed with shots of Williams in deep contemplation.
“Got too big for my britches / Too big for my fishes / The sea got shallower / Every day,” Williams trills on the song’s bridge.
“I danced, I said my prayers / It never rained / And I just want to be in California / Heaven laughs ’cause they all tried to warn us / They sent me right back / From where I came / My tail between my legs / On Broadway.”
But after experiencing ego death at a bachelorette party, Williams proclaims it “can only go up from here.”
Watch Hayley Williams’ ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’ music video here
Williams first released “Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party” on July 28 when she leaked 17 new tracks to her website.
Williams inconspicuously released the album’s worth of music on hayleywilliams.net, accessible with a code sent out to customers of Good Dye Young, her hair product line.
Days later, the collection of tunes each dropped as singles on streaming platforms.
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Audrey Gibbs is a music journalist with The Tennessean. You can reach her at agibbs@tennessean.com.
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