{"id":2083576,"date":"2025-10-11T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2083576"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:51:20","slug":"david-byrne-and-hayley-williams-share-new-song-open-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/david-byrne-and-hayley-williams-share-new-song-open-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne and Hayley Williams share new song ‘Open The Door’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Byrne and Hayley Williams<\/a> have finally shared their latest musical collaboration, which will feature in the upcoming Netflix animation, The Twits.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their new single, \u2018Open the Door\u2019, will appear at the end of the film, which is based on Roald Dahl\u2019s beloved book originally released in 1980.<\/p>\n

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The official synopsis of the book adaptation reads, \u201cThe Twits is a wild, surreal and one-of-a-kind comedy<\/a>, which sees a pair of nasty pranksters finally meet their match: a brave little girl and her band of friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the tune, Williams sings the first and second verses, opening the song with the words, \u201cTears are like magic and laughing is fun \/ If you can have both of them, why just have one? \/ Everything matters and all things belong \/ Fear is the same place that courage comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n

The refrain throughout the chorus, in which both musicians sing in harmony, is, \u201cOpen the door, look what we\u2019ve done \/ Open your heart, how far we\u2019ve come.\u201d It <\/p>\n

The Twits <\/em>director, writer, and producer Phil Johnston has previously opened up about how this iconic collaboration originally came about. He shared in a statement, \u201cWhen David and I started talking about an end-credit song, the first potential collaborator David brought up was Hayley Williams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnston added, \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

William echoed that sentiment, sharing, \u201cI owe David Byrne for pulling me into the music for this.\u201d The Paramore singer continued, \u201cIt was so fun and so surreal starting a song from scratch with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair are frequent collaborators<\/a>. Williams most recently featured on the David Byrne track, \u2018What Is The Reason For It?\u2019, while Byrnes has been consistently performing a cover of the classic Paramore track, \u2018Hard Times\u2019, on his recent Who is the Sky? tour.<\/p>\n

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