These skies just aren't big enough for the two of them: Twenty One Pilots' Tyler Joseph has claimed that Tom Cruise fired the band from working on the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack.
In a new interview on KROQ 106.7 FM's Klein/ Ally Show, the musician aired out some resentment towards the star and producer of the long-awaited sequel to the iconic 1986 aviation film.
"I was working with the music placement person for the new Top Gun, writing a new song for them, and then I believe Tom Cruise came in and just fired everyone," Joseph alleged, sparking rumours that Cruise not only has a need for speed, but a need for faces that are un-blurry working on his soundtrack.
Joseph continued: "You've seen that new Top Gun thing that he's got? The trailer has been out for, like, three years! So there's been a few overhauls, and I was a part of that. They've moved on," he added, with "Hold My Hand," Lady Gaga's song for the film, having been released last week.
The interviewers pried, trying to get a sense of how deep the Twenty One Pilots bandleader had been into the process of writing his highest-flying music yet for the soundtrack before he was ousted.
"They brought me in to show me some scenes and stuff, and I actually don't think I'd started writing — it was actually pretty soon after they brought me in to show me parts of the movie and what they were looking for and stuff that I got word that there was like, a wholesale swap," Joseph explained.
Host Klein then wove a grandiose revenge fantasy for the duo, saying the band should go to the box office the week before Top Gun: Maverick finally comes out, for one night only, to somehow show "them" (Cruise et al.) how a movie should be released. "Basically, we're the only movie that can reference any sort of airplane or pilot," the musician joked.
Upon releasing her song for the soundtrack, replacement Gaga wrote that she had been working on the tune for years, "perfecting it, trying to make it ours." Cruise praised the pop star's contribution while on The Late Late Show, saying: "The song she'd written just fell right in and became, really, the underlying score and the heartbeat of our film."
You can listen to the interview below.
It sounds like Justin Bieber's attempt at fighting a deepfake of the actor might not be the last of the shots fired against Cruise, who famously landed his helicopter in a family's backyard because he was "running late." Last year, Twenty One Pilots released their sixth album Scaled and Icy.
In a new interview on KROQ 106.7 FM's Klein/ Ally Show, the musician aired out some resentment towards the star and producer of the long-awaited sequel to the iconic 1986 aviation film.
"I was working with the music placement person for the new Top Gun, writing a new song for them, and then I believe Tom Cruise came in and just fired everyone," Joseph alleged, sparking rumours that Cruise not only has a need for speed, but a need for faces that are un-blurry working on his soundtrack.
Joseph continued: "You've seen that new Top Gun thing that he's got? The trailer has been out for, like, three years! So there's been a few overhauls, and I was a part of that. They've moved on," he added, with "Hold My Hand," Lady Gaga's song for the film, having been released last week.
The interviewers pried, trying to get a sense of how deep the Twenty One Pilots bandleader had been into the process of writing his highest-flying music yet for the soundtrack before he was ousted.
"They brought me in to show me some scenes and stuff, and I actually don't think I'd started writing — it was actually pretty soon after they brought me in to show me parts of the movie and what they were looking for and stuff that I got word that there was like, a wholesale swap," Joseph explained.
Host Klein then wove a grandiose revenge fantasy for the duo, saying the band should go to the box office the week before Top Gun: Maverick finally comes out, for one night only, to somehow show "them" (Cruise et al.) how a movie should be released. "Basically, we're the only movie that can reference any sort of airplane or pilot," the musician joked.
Upon releasing her song for the soundtrack, replacement Gaga wrote that she had been working on the tune for years, "perfecting it, trying to make it ours." Cruise praised the pop star's contribution while on The Late Late Show, saying: "The song she'd written just fell right in and became, really, the underlying score and the heartbeat of our film."
You can listen to the interview below.
It sounds like Justin Bieber's attempt at fighting a deepfake of the actor might not be the last of the shots fired against Cruise, who famously landed his helicopter in a family's backyard because he was "running late." Last year, Twenty One Pilots released their sixth album Scaled and Icy.
