Paramore's Hayley Williams Plays The Slasher And The Final Girl In Creepy 'Simmer' Video

Paramore's Hayley Williams solo era is here, also it arrived like a horror-movie monster standing in a suburban residence doorway. On Wednesday (January 22), she released "Simmer," a dread-inducing new track of irritated feels that comes with an identically scary video about evading a slasher. Wait up until you visualize the twist ending. You'll look at yourself in the resemble a little bit differently afterward.


"Simmer" sounds like the initial zombified arms bursting from the ground at a cemetery in the middle of the night. Its neck hair-raising groove comes from the whispering guitar courtesy of Paramore guitarist Taylor York, who imbues the midnight playground with an intense fog. Williams's soft vocals add to the intensity as she sings about a wide span of emotions like rage and contempt. "Rage is a quiet thing / You think that you've tamed it / Although it's just lying in wait," she mumbles into an imaginary crystal ball, setting up the song to explore the dark feelings that make us into primal beings.


In the video, Williams flees from a masked killer who can take the form of a red cloud. Right after running through a forest and taking refuge in a nearby home, the killer chases her there. By putting mud all over her body, Williams escapes from the entity chasing her, then turns the tables by clobbering it over the head and knocking it out on the floor. Suddenly, Williams looks horrified as she looks down upon it and sees her own face staring back at her. Is she suggesting that the past is dead and she's moving boldly into the future?


Williams is set to release a solo project, Petals For Armor, soon. It's the begin of her solo era that she's been teasing for a little bit while, revealing in December that lose be ringing off the new year with some fresh tunes. Paramore has been on something of a unofficial hiatus since 2018.


Check out Williams's scary new "Simmer" video up above.