Twenty One Pilots play mash-up of 'Stranger Things' theme and 'Heathens'

20 One Pilots Drops 'Stranger Things' Mashup We Didn't Know We Needed

Attendees of the Electric Castle Festival on July 15 went wild for a mashup of Xx One Pilots 2016 hit "Heathens" from the movie Suicide Team and Netflix's "Stranger Things" theme song.

The "Stranger Things" theme vocal was composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, and has played over the show's opening credits since its debut in 2016.

Equally giant video screens on the Electric Castle phase projected cluttered scenes from the cult TV show—which dropped its last batch of flavour-iv episodes on July 1—band members Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun wove the theme into their track "Heathens," which appeared in DC Comics' 2016 moving picture Suicide Squad, a critical clunker but box office hit.

twenty one pilots stranger things suicide squad — Fans went nuts for a mashup of 20 One Pilots 2016 hit song "Heathens" from the moving-picture show "Suicide Squad" and the theme song from the Netflix cult classic "Stranger Things" at the Electric Castle Festival in Romania on July 15, 2022. Left, Tyler Joseph of 20 One Pilots performs at the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival at Napa Valley Expo on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Napa, Calif. Correct, a statue of Vecna from "Stranger Things" appears outside the convention center on day ane of Comic-Con International on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in San Diego. Amy Harris/Invision, Christy Radecic/Invision/Associated Printing

The unexpected original made the already pumped crowd go bonkers, and thematically, the mash-up makes more sense than it may seem: Both the Idiot box show and the film focus on super-talented groups of outsiders trying to fight evil.

One group is fabricated upwardly of formerly incarcerated and (arguably) malevolent and murderous characters with names like Deadshot (Volition Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and El Diablo (Jay Hernandez).
The other takes on the baddies with the sheer force of 1980s way and one very special psychokinetic teen named Xi (Millie Bobby Chocolate-brown), along with her merry band of friends in Hawkins, Indiana.

This season, the 'Stranger Things' gang faced its toughest opponent yet, Vecna, a.thousand.a. One, a.m.a. Henry (Jamie Campbell Bower), who featured heavily in the band's video projections.

You lot might say Vecna and the Suicide Squad would probably go along really well, actually.

It too makes sense that bands would exist trying to get in on the magic of the 'Stranger Things' musical connexion: Kate Bush-league's 1985 vocal, "Running Up That Hill," which plays a pivotal part this season, famously surged on the music charts this year thanks to its cameo.

In a video posted to the band'southward official YouTube business relationship, Twenty One Pilots lead vocalizer Joseph starts a phone call and response with the Romanaian audience, singing the lyric, "All my friends are heathens, have it slow," with thousands of audience members responding, "Wait for them to ask yous who yous know."

He then screamed, "Romania!" and the oversupply went wild.

In a Facebook post on the band's official page, the video was captioned, "Vecna'due south curse can never be louder than the crowd."

The v-mean solar day, multistage fest at Banffy Castle also featured Gorillaz, Disclosure, Sofi Tukker and scores of other artists.

Newsweek reached out to Twenty-One Pilots and Netflix for additional comment.