This is an accepted version of this page Hayley Nichole Williams (born December 27, 1988) is an American singer and songwriter.

Williams' non-Paramore musical work includes the song "Teenagers" for the soundtrack of the film Jennifer's Body (2009) and collaborations with The Chariot, October Fall, New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, and Zedd.

[20][21][22] While still at school, she tried out for a local funk cover band called The Factory, where she met future Paramore bandmate Jeremy Davis.

[27] Once the group learned the meaning of the homophone "paramour" ("secret lover"), they decided to adopt the name, using the Paramore spelling.

[31] The following year, she and the rest of Paramore made an appearance in the music video for "Kiss Me" by New Found Glory.

She also appears as a playable character in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour after completing "Misery Business" in the vocalist campaign.

[38] In 2015, Williams starred as the 'Crimson Curse' in Taylor Swift's music video for her single, "Bad Blood", alongside sixteen other celebrities.

[43][44] In a 2019 interview with l'Odet, Williams was asked if she would "stay in Paramore for a long time" and answered, "In moving forward, if the three of us are happy, then we will just do whatever we want to do.

[47][48][49] When it was released as a single, "Airplanes" peaked within the top ten in nineteen countries, including the number one position in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

[50][51] EDM producer Zedd and Williams collaborated on the track "Stay the Night", from his debut studio album, Clarity,[43][52] which was released in 2013.

In 2019, she collaborated with American Football on the song Uncomfortably Numb, which appeared on the band's third self-titled studio album.

Flyers consisting of a picture of Williams under the title Petals for Armor began appearing in several US cities and abroad.

[57] It was later revealed that she would release an EP, Petals for Armor I, on February 6, 2020, in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music.

[65][66] In March 2013, Williams announced she was partnering with MAC Cosmetics for the release of a new makeup collection on April 9, 2013.

[69] Hayley appeared on the April 2013 cover of Nylon magazine to promote Paramore's self-titled album.

[70][71] In October, she partnered with the Hard Rock Café's PINKTOBER charity campaign to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer and its research.

[74][75] In 2019, Williams posted an Instagram story about the 2018 Pool Kids album Music to Practice Safe Sex to, saying that Paramore had wished they sounded like that 15 years earlier.

A portion of each sale will be donated to Thistle Farms, an organization that helps women survivors of trafficking, abuse, and addiction.

[88] Williams cites a wide range of musical acts as her influences including Debbie Harry, the Shangri-Las, Siouxsie Sioux, Gwen Stefani, Beyoncé, and Brody Dalle of the Distillers.

[92] Alternative Press wrote that Williams "has more charisma than singers twice her age, and her band aren't far behind in their chops, either.

[105] They formally announced that they had separated on July 1, 2017, with Gilbert's infidelity later being revealed as the reason,[106] and their divorce was finalized by the end of the year.

[118] In 2020, following the George Floyd protests, Williams temporarily handed control of her Instagram account to Nashville-based activist group Teens4Equality to highlight their work in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.

[119] In 2021, Williams announced that she would be abandoning her personal social media accounts due to her need for boundaries between her public and private life and her desire to "spend more time looking up and out, rather than down".