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How Hayley Williams’ To Do List Became Her Album Title · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Paramore's Hayley Williams just unleashed her second
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  Speaker 1: solo album called Flowers for Vases Disconsoles, which, like her lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: is quite poetic. Hayley tells American Songwriter last fall, she
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  Speaker 1: realized it was time to do it deep cleaning, emotionally
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  Speaker 1: and quite literally. So she tied it up her place,
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  Speaker 1: and as she did so, she threw away some dead flowers,
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  Speaker 1: which she loves, leaving her vases empty. As she was
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  Speaker 1: headed out to the grocery store, at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: her shopping list, below oat, milk and granola, she jotted
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  Speaker 1: down flowers for Vases. Much later, as she was sorting
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  Speaker 1: through a stack of paper, she saw those words jutting out,
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  Speaker 1: she tells the magazine. It had this weight to it.
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  Speaker 1: It signified a time to put new life in these
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  Speaker 1: vessels and carry that forward instead of carrying around these
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  Speaker 1: dead little skeletons of flowers. And thus an album title
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  Speaker 1: was born. Flowers for Vases Visconsos is out now. That's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.