David Byrne Shares Bright New Single 'T-Shirt' with Brian Eno
The single 'T-Shirt' highlights themes of helping others amid political challenges and has become a fan favorite during Byrne’s North American tour, released Nov. 18, 2025.
- On Nov 18, 2025, David Byrne, former Talking Heads frontman, shared the electropop single 'T-Shirt,' co-written with Brian Eno and released it on streaming services via Matador.
- On September 16, Byrne debuted 'T-Shirt' live in Pittsburgh and has performed it multiple times on his North American tour behind his September album Who Is the Sky?.
- The visualizer features a sequence of T‑shirts bearing slogans from 'Make America Gay Again' to humorous lines, while the cover art depicts a creased T‑shirt printed with 'Well-behaved women seldom make history', credited to historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
- Byrne situates the release amid social movements, saying listeners are 'in the middle of the biggest social movement in human history', and the track has become a fan favourite on his North American tour toward December 6.
- Eno and Byrne's decades-long partnership includes Eno-produced Talking Heads albums and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, continuing Byrne's post-Talking Heads career of musical experimentation.
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David Byrne releases new single 'T Shirt'
Artwork for David Byrne single ‘T Shirt’ (Matador Records) David Byrne is out with a new single. The Talking Heads frontman has released the new track “T Shirt,” which he co-wrote with producer Brian Eno. The song is described as “a classic piece of electro-pop wrapped in lightly humorous, but always earnest, political commentary.” The video for the song features a drawing of a T-shirt with a variety of messages, including “well-behaved women se…
David Byrne Reunites With Brian Eno for ‘T-Shirt’
David Byrne’s ongoing U.S. tour is packed with vintage Talking Heads songs and selections from his new LP Who Is the Sky? But he’s also played a new song every night called “T-Shirt” that nobody heard prior to opening night. He’s just dropped a video for it, and revealed that it was co-written with Brian Eno. The video shows a montage of T-shirts containing slogans like “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” “Make America Gay Again,” “Fight…
David Byrne and Brian Eno release new song "T-Shirt"
Talking Heads singer and final boss-level music nerd David Byrne issued his new album, Who Is the Sky?, in September. Now, he's released a new track, "T-Shirt", co-written with Brian Eno.It's thunder-and-lightning levels of collaboration, given that Eno has played a substantial role in plenty of Byrne's discography, including 1980's Remain in Light. "T-Shirt" serves as another entry in the duo's catalog, perhaps best-known for 1981's collaborati…
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