{"id":495269,"date":"2025-10-13T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495269\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:41:13","slug":"listen-to-hayley-williams-and-david-byrnes-newest-collaboration-open-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495269\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Hayley Williams and David Byrne’s newest collaboration, ‘Open The Door’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayley Williams<\/a> and David Byrne<\/a> have released their latest collaboration \u2013 listen to \u2018Open The Door\u2019 below.<\/p>\n

The two artists have become closely linked in recent months, with the Paramore<\/a> singer appearing on the former Talking Heads<\/a> frontman\u2019s new solo album \u2018Who Is The Sky?<\/a>\u2019 on the track \u2018What Is The Reason For It?<\/a>\u2019, and Paramore covering \u2018Burning Down The House\u2019 for the 40th anniversary reissue of Stop Making Sense <\/a>last year.<\/p>\n

Byrne also covered Paramore\u2019s 2017 track \u2018Hard Times\u2019 for Record Store Day 2024<\/a>, and at a show in New York\u2019s Radio City Music Hall on Friday (October 10), Williams joined Byrne for duets of both songs<\/a>, both of which you can watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the two singers have shared the song they have recorded together for the upcoming animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl\u2019s The Twits. \u2018Open The Door\u2019 is one of three tracks Byrne has written and produced for the Netflix project, and they shared the playful, tuneful song this week \u2013 listen below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a fun project,\u201d Byrne has said. \u201cLike other Roald Dahl books, this one has its share of dreadful characters. When I was approached to write some songs for this movie, I immediately said \u2018Let me give it a try and see if you like what I come up with\u2019. Phil [Johnston, writer, producer and director] was wonderfully clear what each song needed to express and what the character was feeling at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI reached out to Hayley Williams to collaborate on the end credits song and we both agreed that it should serve to remind us that there is heart and connection in the story after all the unpleasantness depicted by Mr. and Mrs. Twit. Hayley was inspired by Beesha\u2019s story and came up with some lyric ideas, and I set them to tune and boom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams added, \u201cBeing a part of this movie is like one pinch-me moment after another. My favourite Roald Dahl book growing up was\u00a0The Twits. I\u2019m drawn to learning about twisted characters like Mr. and Mrs. Twit and The Wormwoods from\u00a0Matilda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like a cautionary tale \u2013 and also a really lovely depiction of chosen family and community, which is one of my favourite topics. I owe David Byrne for pulling me into the music for this. It was so fun and so surreal starting a song from scratch with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mr and Mrs Twits will be voiced by Johnny Vegas and Margo Martindale, and others in the cast include Emilia Clarke (Pippa), Natalie Portman (Mary Muggle Wump), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Beesha), Ryan Lopez (Bubsy), and Timothy Simons (Marty Muggle-Wump).<\/p>\n

The Twits\u00a0will debut on\u00a0Netflix<\/a>\u00a0on Friday (October 17).<\/p>\n

Byrne\u2019s current worldwide tour in support of \u2018Who Is The Sky?\u2019 kicked off in September and will reach the UK in March 2026. Any remaining US tickets can be purchased\u00a0here<\/a>, and UK tickets\u00a0here<\/a>, and all dates can be viewed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for Williams,\u00a0she released her solo album \u2018Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party\u2019 digitally in August<\/a>, with a physical release coming in November (pre-order here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NME\u00a0gave the record a\u00a0glowing five-star review<\/a>, writing: \u201cAs with almost every era of Hayley Williams\u2019 career, this new release has come with\u00a0questions about the future of Paramore<\/a>. The determined lyrics on the tender \u2018I Won\u2019t Quit On You\u2019 should be all the reassurance worried fans need, but if that\u2019s not enough, there\u2019s plenty in this brilliant, swaggering new chapter to be excited about. These songs might be about missed second chances, but Williams is certainly making the most of hers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams and David Byrne have released their latest collaboration \u2013 listen to \u2018Open The Door\u2019 below. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,481,269,451,112779,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-495269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-pop-punk","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115365025222024013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}