“Mirtazapine” by hayley williams

By Gaia Dash

Here comes my genie in a yellow hair dye bottle because Miss Williams has done it again. From the first bars of rousing Toms and the screeching, alarm-like guitar hook, it seems as though Mirtazapine is screaming at its listener to WAKE UP! Ringing in a new era after two albums of stripped back, introspective white lady indie (I mean that as a compliment, by the way), Mirtazapine careens into the left lane of honest-to-god alt rock, making it the perfect lead single from her 2025 album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, and a hard and fast transition for even the most purist Paramore fan. And to the old timer punks who are reluctant to let Williams into the canon: who says songs about drugs can’t include antidepressants?