{"id":2084151,"date":"2025-10-11T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2084151"},"modified":"2025-10-11T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:04:12","slug":"watch-hayley-williams-join-david-byrne-for-paramores-hard-times-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-hayley-williams-join-david-byrne-for-paramores-hard-times-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hayley Williams join David Byrne for Paramore&#8217;s &#8216;Hard Times&#8217; in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/david-byrne\">David Byrne<\/a> brought out <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/paramore\">Paramore<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hayley-williams\">Hayley Williams<\/a> for two songs during his New York City show on Friday \u2013 watch footage below.<\/p>\n<p>On October 10, the singer brought <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-david-byrne-play-talking-heads-psycho-killer-for-the-first-time-in-19-years-as-he-kicks-off-2025-tour-3893313\">his current solo tour<\/a> to the Radio City Music Hall, playing songs from across his career, from early <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/talking-heads\">Talking Heads<\/a> classics such as \u2018Once In A Lifetime\u2019 and \u2018Psycho Killer\u2019 to tracks from his new album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-byrne-shares-everybody-laughs-and-announces-new-album-who-is-the-sky-featuring-hayley-williams-st-vincent-and-more-3868584\">Who Is The Sky?<\/a>\u2019, which he released last month.<\/p>\n<p>During the set, he was joined by Williams for a version of \u2018What Is The Reason For It?\u2019, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-byrne-shares-new-single-what-is-the-reason-for-it-featuring-paramores-hayley-williams-3889997\">the song from the new record on which she appears<\/a>. Later in the show, she appeared again for \u2018Hard Times\u2019, the Paramore song that has been a regular presence on Byrne\u2019s setlists on this tour.<\/p>\n<p>Watch fan-captured footage of both performances here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Byrne - What is the Reason for It (Live, feat. Hayley Williams)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Ruyo7DGhuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Byrne - Hard Times (Paramore Cover, Live, feat. Hayley Williams)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYISwtCEPMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><strong>David Byrne played:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u2018Heaven\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Everybody Laughs\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018And She Was\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Strange Overtones\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Houses In Motion\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018T-Shirt\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018(Nothing But) Flowers\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018What Is The Reason For It?\u2019 (with Hayley Williams)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Like Humans Do\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Don\u2019t Be Like That\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Independence Day\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Slippery People\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Moisturizing Thing\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018My Apartment Is My Friend\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Hard Times\u2019 (with Hayley Williams)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Psycho Killer\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Life During Wartime\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Once In A Lifetime\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Everybody\u2019s Coming To My House\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Burning Down The House\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Williams\u2019 appearance on the album, Byrne\u00a0has said: \u201cWhen we were finishing up the record, the producer\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kid-harpoon\">Kid Harpoon<\/a>\u00a0and I were wondering, \u2018Oh, maybe this song, it\u2019s a love song, or at least it\u2019s asking what is love, what it\u2019s about? Why do we do this? Why do other people do it? Do we know anything about it? (\u2026) And I knew that [Williams] was in town, so I just texted her and said, \u2018Do you want to come by and sing on this?\u2019 And she said yes. And she killed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-byrne-and-hayley-williams-to-collaborate-on-soundtrack-for-netflixs-the-twits-3883371\">Byrne and Williams have also collaborated on \u2018Open The Door\u2019<\/a>, a song from the new animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl\u2019s\u00a0<i>The Twits<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fdavid-byrne-tickets%2Fartist%2F734679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and UK tickets\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fdavid-byrne-tickets%2Fartist%2F734679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and all dates can be viewed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-byrne-shares-everybody-laughs-and-announces-new-album-who-is-the-sky-featuring-hayley-williams-st-vincent-and-more-3868584\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We last caught up with David Byrne when he released the<i>\u00a0American Utopia\u00a0<\/i>concert film in 2020, with Byrne\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-byrne-tells-us-why-there-probably-wont-be-a-talking-heads-reunion-2842415\">sharing why there wouldn\u2019t be a Talking Heads reunion in the future<\/a>. You can revisit the\u00a0full Big Read cover feature<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/big-reads\/david-byrne-cover-interview-2020-american-utopia-2841867\">\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Williams, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-officially-releases-new-album-ego-death-at-a-bachelorette-party-and-shares-pensive-new-track-parachute-3888509\">she released her solo album \u2018Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party\u2019 digitally in August<\/a>, with a physical release coming in November (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.hayleywilliams.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-order here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><i>NME\u00a0<\/i>gave the record a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/hayley-williams-ego-singles-release-review-3882524\">glowing five-star review<\/a>, writing: \u201cAs with almost every era of Hayley Williams\u2019 career, this new release has come with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/hayley-williams-new-album-ego-sparks-fears-of-paramore-split-3882005\">questions 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<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne brought out Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams for two songs during his New York City show on Friday \u2013 watch footage below. On October 10, the singer brought his current solo tour to the Radio City Music Hall, playing songs from across his career, from early Talking Heads classics such as \u2018Once In A Lifetime\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2084152,"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":[25179],"tags":[21935,314990],"class_list":["post-2084151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-indie","tag-pop-punk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Watch-Hayley-Williams-join-David-Byrne-for-Paramores-Hard-Times.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084151","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=2084151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084153,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084151\/revisions\/2084153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}