06/07/2025
Video of the day: We've locked in our David Byrne tickets and lovin' the video for “Everybody Laughs”, the lead single from his upcoming album This Is The Sky, arriving September 5. On “Everybody Laughs,” Byrne reflects on the shared rhythms of everyday life: “Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling,” he says. “I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody.” He adds: “Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it.” Now in a later chapter of his career, Byrne approaches each project with a sharper sense of freedom. “At my age… there’s a ‘don’t give a s**t about what people think’ attitude that kicks in,” he says. “That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure.”
David Byrne has released “Everybody Laughs”, the lead single from his upcoming album This Is The Sky, arriving September 5. Produced by Kid Harpoon, the album marks Byrne’s first solo LP since 2018’s American Utopia, and continues his exploration of human connection and unity in a fractured ...
