Hayley Williams Sings Herself Back To Life
"Myth is the threshold of history." Saidiya Hartman stakes this claim in Lose Your Mother, a tale of myth, fiction and the root causes of subjugation. Hartman, like the countless women before her, bridges the gap between fictional worlds of lived trauma and restoration. Hayley Williams, in her second solo album, counts herself among the women who blur the lines of myth and reality. On Flowers for Vases / descanos, she makes a way, but never a destination to reclaim selfhood.
Written and recorded in her Nashville home,. If anything, it's a prequel, or some sort of detour between parts 1 and 2 of ," Williams wrote on Instagram stories the night of her album release. If gave the world a breadth of emotion and reflection on her journey through loss, family trauma and deep reflection via EMDR therapy, then on has the courage to find herself again .
