“Parachute” by Hayley Williams

"Parachute" was the second song Hayley Williams released from her third solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, turning up on August 28, 2025, and it came with a twist: after she'd scattered 17 standalone songs across the summer as surprise drops, this was the one brand-new track held back for the album's official release, where it closes the record. She put it out on Post Atlantic, her own imprint, two years after leaving Atlantic Records.

Williams wrote it with producers Daniel James and Steph Marziano, and all three play guitar on it, with James and Marziano on keys as well; Manny Marroquin and Ramiro Fernandez-Seoane mixed. It's a rock song soaked in heartbreak and regret, sung with her voice scraped raw, and it caught fire online before landing a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance.

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