Listen to Hayley Williams’ new solo track ‘Mirtazapine’
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has unveiled her first solo work since 2021. She has debuted a new track, ‘Mirtazapine’, on a Nashville radio station.
On July 23rd, the radio station WNXP played the track, named after a common antidepressant. At just over 3 minutes, it shows the star following 1990s shoegaze influences, with bending frenetic guitars and her infamous belting vocals rounding out a charged bridge.
The artwork currently available for the unreleased track also teases a B-side, ‘Glum’. She has yet to announce when both singles might be released; in fact, the only acknowledgement of the song’s existence was via a blurry photo of a bottle of mirtazapine on her Instagram story, and a call for her fans to support the local Nashville radio, which is now struggling due to funding cuts from the Trump administration.
Lyrics on the single detail the singer’s co-dependency with the medication. Williams sings, “I could never be without her/ I had to write a song about her/ Who am I without you now?”
Williams has lent her vocals to a few tracks this year. She has collaborated with hardcore titans Turnstile on their swooning new song, ‘Seein’ Stars’, while also guesting at one of their shows. The ‘Misery Business’ singer also joined Moses Sumney on the tune ‘I Like It I Like It’ back in May 2025.
Williams released her last solo LP, Flowers for Vases/Descansos, in 2021, a softer, acoustic offering that the musician wrote and recorded entirely on her own. Before that, she released Petals for Armor in 2020, during a break from working with Paramore, though she remained extremely close with her bandmates.
The singer teased a return to her solo career at the end of their long run of huge stadium tours with Taylor Swift. At the very beginning of 2025, on her 36th birthday, she wrote on social media, “I’m going to try and finally play some shows next year that would’ve happened nearly 5 years ago now. That is, if the world doesn’t fucking stop before then.”
This track details candidly her reliance on anti-depressants; this was a topic the singer-songwriter only recently opened up about, in a 2023 interview with Rolling Stone. She said at that time, “People talk about anger and depression being so related because depression is like when you turn your anger inwards. And I think that there’s bits of that anger mixed with bits of this real understanding of how frustrating it can feel to wake up with depression. Depression about your own choices, depression about the state of the world, depression about lost relationships or connections, or purpose.”
Listen to the unreleased track below.
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