{"id":237093,"date":"2026-01-16T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/237093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:10:11","slug":"hayley-williams-covers-her-grandfather-rustys-song-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/237093\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Covers Her Grandfather Rusty&#8217;s Song: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Paramore star Hayley Williams helped her grandfather Rusty release <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2292933\/paramore-members-help-hayley-williams-grandpa-finally-release-the-album-he-made-in-the-70s\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Grand Man<\/a>, the previously unreleased LP that he recorded back in the &#8217;70s. Hayley also recorded a cover of Rusty&#8217;s song &#8220;Friends Or Lovers,&#8221; and it <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2327550\/hayley-williams-shares-new-song-good-ol-days-covers-her-grandpa-on-upcoming-7\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">came out on vinyl<\/a> back in November. Now, the deluxe edition of Grand Man is out, and that cover finally hits streaming. <\/p>\n<p>Hayley Williams recorded her version of &#8220;Friends Or Lovers&#8221; with herself on lead vocals and synth, her Paramore bandmate Zac Farro on drums, and Brittany Howard on background vocals, flute, and acoustic 12-string. It&#8217;s a nice little &#8217;70s soft-rock love songs, and Hayley sings the hell out of it. Listen to her version below.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Hayley telling Stereogum nepo-grandpa correspondent Rachel Brown all about Rusty.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Man deluxe is out now on Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Paramore star Hayley Williams helped her grandfather Rusty release Grand Man, the previously unreleased LP that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-237093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}