Niall Horan opens up about rewriting music amidst Liam Payne’s death
Niall Horan share details about his twelfth track ‘End of an Era’ from album ‘Dinner Party’
Niall Horan reflected on how he came to write a song dedicated to his late pal Liam Payne.
The Slow Hands singer, who spent the last few days with the Photograph crooner and then was the first one to know about his death, revealed how he coped up with the loss.
Horan’s upcoming fourth studio album, Dinner Party includes a track titled, End of an Era, which was originally intended to be a nostalgic reflection on the passed time.
However, in the wake of Payne’s death, who passed away after falling of the balcony in Argentina on October 16, 2024, the Irish singer wrote the song.
“We wrote End of an Era about four times, because originally the song to me meant, ‘All right, we’re moving on,’” he told the Rolling Stone. “Looking forward to the future, looking back on the past with nostalgia, being happy with what you had, excited for what’s going to happen.”
Horan wrote the lyrics with songwriters John Ryan and Julian Bunetta, who lived next door to Payne.
The Dinner Party hitmaker added, “We all grew up together. For the three of us, it was actually quite a crazy experience to have to write a song like that, because you don’t ever expect to.”
He recalled writing the lyrics in just “20 minutes” calling it a “weird experience.”
Horan further said that the song was about they felt of the loss and “for anyone who’s lost anyone, for the fans, for anyone that knew Liam.”
Sharing details of what the track will be like, former One Direction singer said that it is filled with all the happy memories they had together from “traveling the world, messing around, having fun, and being teenagers.”
He said that it felt “liberating” to write about it.
Horan concluded by adding that the melody starts off as sad and one kind of a song but then shifts to being a complete different kind of and also reminding him of the “1D stuff.”
Horan’s album Dinner Party is slated for release on June 5.
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