Hayley Williams has said she briefly “blacked out” while performing on stage with PinkPantheress.
Back in 2022, Paramore played both weekends of Austin City Limits and were joined on the second by the ‘Fancy That’ singer, who took on ‘Misery Business’ alongside Williams.
At the concert, PinkPantheress told her she was “doing music because of you” and, as Williams recently revealed on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, it was an equally impactful moment for her, as she suffered a blackout on stage.
“I blacked out on stage at ACL [Austin City Limits] the last album cycle,” she admitted. “PinkPantheress was on stage singing ‘Misery Business’ with us, and I had this moment where I was like, ‘I just went out for two seconds, and I came back.’ Turns out I was sick.”
While she didn’t elaborate on the health issue that caused the brief incident, she did reveal that something similar had happened before while on stage at a festival in Mexico City. “I almost shit my pants, threw up and blacked out,” she told a laughing Poehler.
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The admission comes ahead of her upcoming solo tour, which was recently extended due to “overwhelming demand”. The shows kick off in Atlanta on March 27 and include dates in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin in June. See all the information here and find any remaining tickets here.
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Next year’s tour is in support of Williams’ latest solo album ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’, which was released digitally in August and has now earned four Grammy nominations, including Best Alternative Music Album.
In a glowing five-star review of the record, NME wrote: “As with almost every era of Hayley Williams’ career, this new release has come with questions about the future of Paramore. The determined lyrics on the tender ‘I Won’t Quit On You’ should be all the reassurance worried fans need, but if that’s not enough, there’s plenty in this brilliant, swaggering new chapter to be excited about.
“These songs might be about missed second chances, but Williams is certainly making the most of hers.”
The record also landed on NME‘s 50 Best Albums of 2025 list. In it Number 9, the entry read: “Cathartic and profoundly personal, ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’ at times plays out like a peek into Hayley Williams’ therapy sessions. Now unshackled from a decades-long record deal, the Paramore leader has made a kaleidoscopic third album that’s her most creative and vital work yet.”
Just above her was PinkPantheress at Number 10, with that entry noting the record’s “flirty hopscotch between pop’s past and present, distilling PinkPantheress’ appeal into its most self-assured form yet: saccharine beats, sharply selected samples and diaristic longing, all sealed with kitsch and kisses.”
The British singer-songwriter also landed the top spot on our NME‘s 50 Best Songs of 2025 list with ‘Illegal’. “Pink has made headlines for standing by her sub-three-minute hits, and with this adrenaline-fuelled thrillride, she’s once again proved that’s all the time she needs,” the entry read. “Combining winking storytelling smarts, artful sampling, cheeky culture-defining quips (those opening lines!) and dance floor-filling beats, ‘Illegal’ showed us just how big she could go. A true feat.”
Earlier this year, PinkPantheress shed light on getting recognition as a Black woman in electronic music, saying she can often feel “overlooked” and misunderstood.
Touching on meeting Williams, who she described as a huge inspiration, she said: “When I have these pinch me moments, it’s like, ‘Wow, I really need to hold on to this, because I don’t know when the next one will be.”
