Hayley Williams, the lead singer of Paramore, is in the midst of promoting her third solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. She stopped by the New York Times Popcast to talk about why she was so averse to doing solo music while the band was on the rise and the opportunities she had to give up for the greater good of the band one of which was the offer to sing a song for the end credits of the bisexual cult classic Jennifer's Body. During her conversation with hosts Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, Williams talked about how the band infamously went through a few iterations with different members including Josh Farro, the brother to drummer Zac Farro, both of whom left the band through a blog post on the band's website, where they claimed they were treated like her backing band. Before the split, there were times when the band was supportive of her decision to try solo stuff like when she hopped on B.O.B's "Airplanes." But there were times when the support wasn't there, but she makes sure to clarify that the derision mostly came from Zac's brother, because "he was an ass," she said and then said, "Yeah and I turned down the end credits of Jennifer's Body for him."To the shock of the hosts, they asked what the downside was and Williams said that if she had to guess, it had to do with his fundamentalist Christian beliefs and he didn't agree with the movie, which Josh and Zac made reference to in their departure statement. Instead, the person who replaced her for the end sequence was Hole.The attempt at trying to pull Hayley away from the band has been something shes had to go up against throughout her time in music industry. In the interview, she talked about how label execs wanted her to be a solo artist early on but she stuck by her bandmates, making sure not to take meetings alone because she knew the industry's attempt to take her away from Paramore. After Zac, who eventually returned to the band, took some time away, he made solo music with a new band called HalfNoise and that inspired Williams to try working on her own project.Following the success of After Laughter and in the midst of a global pandemic, Williams took the leap and released her first ever solo record in 2020starting with the lead single Simmer and then a full-length album, Petals for Armor, and then Flowers for Vases/Descansos in 2021. Paramore put out their first album in six years back in 2023, This is Why, to widespread critical acclaim nabbing them two more Grammy Awards.Now, Williams is working on her own again for a bit and released her third solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party at the end of August. The hosts of Popcast also asked her about the title track and the lyric, "I'll be the biggest star at the racist country's singer's bar." She spoke about writing this music in Nashville, Tennessee so they were curious to know who the racist country singer she was referring to be "it could be a couple," to which she replies, "I'm always talking about Morgan Wallen, I don't give a shit."