Today on Q with Tom Power: lead singer Hayley Williams and actor Emma Mackey

Paramore's music has been a solace for millions of young adults struggling with mental health issues for more than a decade.

Opening up about her mental health issues, the Paramore frontwoman admits that therapy has helped her understand why she rushed to the altar with ex-husband Chad Gilbert.

Openly discussing her mental health has also helped Williams understand why she rushed to the altar with Gilbert.

After 16 years as the frontwoman for Paramore, and following a broken marriage and a lot of therapy, Hayley Williams is releasing her first solo album.

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This solo debut from the frontwoman of pop-punk stadium stars Paramore is a riot of lust, funk and femininity

Maturity is an often derided concept in a youth-facing art form. But when Simmer, a song about repressed feminist rage buoyed by creepy electronics – the lead track from Hayley Williams’s debut solo album – was released in January, it signalled an intriguing sea change in an artist previously known as a bouncy, flame-haired emo cheerleader.

The story of how Hayley Williams, now 31, went from leading angsty emo shoutalongs in the Tennessee pop-punk band Paramore to releasing these startling songs about rage, femininity and suicidal thoughts is one of the knottier yarns in contemporary American guitar music. Her trio-of-EPs album is now complete, with the final EP – and a physical album uniting all three – released last Friday.

Paramore frontwoman broadens her sonic palette with solo debut

Hayley, 31 said: 'My most memorable recurring dreams from childhood are all water related. I started to have a lot of those again. It resulted in me having panic attacks, and I ended up in a hospital.'