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Hayley Williams <\/a>and David Byrne<\/a> learn to take the good with the bad on their new collaboration, \u201cOpen the Door.\u201d The record will appear on the official soundtrack to The Twits<\/em>, the forthcoming animated film featuring characters adapted from Roald Dahl\u2019s book of the same name, heading to Netflix on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n \u201cTears are like magic and laughing is fun\/If you can have both of them, why just have one?\u201d Williams asks in the opening verse. \u201cEverything matters and all things belong\/Fear is the same place that courage comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Byrne joins on the chorus, singing, \u201cOpen the door, look what we\u2019ve done\/Open your heart, how far we\u2019ve come.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI still can\u2019t quite believe that I spent the last few years collaborating with David Byrne, a musical hero of mine since I was 13,\u201d The Twits director, writer, and producer Phil Johnston shared in a statement when the song was first announced in August<\/a>. \u201cFrom the first demo he sent me, on which the featured instrument was a 100-year-old banjolele, I knew I was going to love the songs he wrote. Throughout the process, my collaboration with David has been incredibly fun and surprisingly easy, probably because I\u2019ve been stealing from him for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOpen the Door\u201d will appear at the end of the film. \u201cWhen David and I started talking about an end-credit song, the first potential collaborator David brought up was Hayley Williams,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cThe first word I said was \u2018yes.\u2019 Followed by \u2018please.\u2019 I still can\u2019t quite believe that two of my favorite songwriters wrote a song together for The Twits. The saying, \u2018never meet your heroes\u2019 simply does not apply here. I met two of them, and boy howdy, it\u2019s been a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n Byrne and Williams dip into each other\u2019s orbits frequently. While on tour, Paramore added \u201cBurning Down the House\u201d to their setlist, while Byrne has been performing \u201cHard Times\u201d during his Who Is the Sky? <\/em>tour. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI owe David Byrne for pulling me into the music for this,\u201d Williams said. \u201cIt was so fun and so surreal starting a song from scratch with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hayley Williams and David Byrne learn to take the good with the bad on their new collaboration, \u201cOpen the Door.\u201d The record will appear on the official soundtrack to The Twits, the forthcoming animated film featuring characters adapted from Roald Dahl\u2019s book of the same name, heading to Netflix on Oct. 17. \u201cTears are like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[312965,306459,391576,391575,389381,314737],"class_list":["post-2082159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-david-byrne","tag-hayley-williams","tag-official-soundtrack","tag-open-the-door","tag-phil-johnston","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hayley-Williams-and-David-Byrne-\u2018Open-the-Door-With-\u2018the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082161,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082159\/revisions\/2082161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}