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Live from the Beacon Theater in New York, Jack Antonoff formed a supergroup with Hayley Williams. The main presentation of Musicians on Musicians 2025, an event from Rolling Stonewas accompanied by Bleachers — a band which Antonoff has been leading for a decade — at the base. During the event, Williams highlighted that she has loved the band since the first time she heard it “I Wanna Get Better,” which makes sense given his adoration for the other bands he’s been in. Antonoff participated. For just one night, their mutual respect and passion for catharsis converged.

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Williams and Antonoff They took turns singing during the show, offering backup voices when needed, or just watching with adoring eyes at other times. The presentation opened with “Mirtazapine”, track from the most recent solo album by the singer of Paramore, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (2025), which talks about the antidepressant in the title. Soon after, it was time for “Modern Girl”, from the self-titled album by Bleachers. “Change my meds, change the flight”, he sang Antonoff. “Bodies on, bodies wild”.

The set continued with the first performances of Williams live of the tracks “kill me” and “Love Me Different”, both from Ego Death. Between one song and another, Bleachers returned to 2017 with “Nothing Is U” — a track from his second studio album, Gone Now (2017) — which they hadn’t played live in three years.

In the final part of their joint performance, the singers developed a two-song grand finale that added a clear aspect of exclusivity to the event. Bleachers surprised the audience with “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call,” a ballad about silence and loneliness made even more melancholy by the haunting harmonies of Williams.

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But the night couldn’t end on such a low note — at least not sonically. With the lively instrumentals of Bleachers, Williams delivered the first performance of “Good Ol’ Days”, an extra track of Ego Death which was released on streaming services during the event. Unless they snuck out, it was the first time that almost everyone present heard the song.

“We could sneak around like we’re on tour/Even if that’s all you want me for, for/You could call me Miss Paramour”, he sang Williamsdancing around the stage in stylish sunglasses to the sound of punchy percussion and vibrant strings. In the song, she sings about moving closer to some version of longed-for catharsis with each new release. “Have to get it out of my system/Don’t like songs about you, don’t listen,” she instructs in the second verse. “If I’m being honest, I’m almost done/Not easy letting go of the one.”

During his talk for the cover of Musicians on Musicians, Antonoff asked the Williams: “What’s the first song you wrote that you were like, ‘If you opened me halfway through, this is the song that would come out?’” to Williamsthese moments came in great waves during the production of Ego Death. “I would write the lyrics and feel super uncomfortable about them, but for me it was a lot quicker to process everything this time around,” she said. “I would look at something that happened three weeks ago and go, ‘Oh my god, that’s what that meant.’”

She added, “I see what you do and you’re involved in so many different things. I always feel the same heart beating behind them all. I take so much pride watching you because I know so much about where you came from and what it feels like, and I still see that in everything you do. That’s what I’m looking for everywhere in our industry.”

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