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The Tom Tom Club performance allows Byrne to don his "big suit", an absurdly large business suit that he wears for the song "Girlfriend Is Better". In a departure from most concert films, the audience is mostly unseen during the concert. During the final song, "Crosseyed and Painless," the viewer sees shots of the audience for the first time. [9]
In the "Once in a Lifetime" music video, Byrne appears in a large, empty white room, dressed in a suit, bowtie and glasses. In the background, inserted via bluescreen, footage of religious rituals or multiple Byrnes appears. Byrne dances erratically, imitating the movements of the rituals and moving in "spasmic" full-body contortions.
David Byrne (/ b ɜːr n /; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, the worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996.
On January 31, Paramore released their full rendition of "Burning Down the House" as the album's lead single. [4] [7] Byrne called their version "amazing", and also released his cover of Paramore's 2017 song "Hard Times" which the band had told him was inspired by the Talking Heads. [8]
Frantz and Weymouth performed the song as Tom Tom Club in the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, as an interlude to allow Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to change into the "big suit" costume for the film's performance of "Girlfriend Is Better". [11] The recording of the song was also included on the soundtrack to the film.
The suit further stated that Byrne had been informed that comments on Biden had been shown to be false, and Byrne refused to retract his comments. [115] In addition to this, Byrne used social media posts to attempt to link his comments to conspiracy theories surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop controversy [ 116 ] and attempted to blame him for ...
The wardrobe for the video was styled by Celestine Cooney, with inspiration taken from David Byrne's "big suit" from Stop Making Sense. [3] An orchestral version of "Fruit" was released on 4 August 2023 for the soundtrack of the film Red, White & Royal Blue. [4] The album was announced on 23 May with a release date of 9 September by Young.