Harry Styles Wrote the ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ ‘Trigger Song’ in Five Minutes
Harry Styles was up “Late Night Talking” with his “Don’t Worry Darling” director Olivia Wilde about the film’s score. It turns out, the script for the psychological thriller only referenced a “trigger song” to haunt Styles’ character Jack and his wife Alice (Florence Pugh) as they navigate a darkly sinister 1950s suburbia. “In prep, Harry called me and said, ‘What’s the trigger song? Like, what’s the melody?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I’m going to different writers to write it. Do you have anything in mind?'” director Wilde revealed to Variety. “And he said, ‘I’ll think about it.’ Five minutes later, he sent me a demo from his piano, and it was what ended up in the film.” Wilde added, “He called me and said, ‘What about this?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s it. That’s it. And that’s really insane that you did that in five minutes.'” Styles set out to write “something that could be both sweet and creepy, entirely dependent on the context,” much like the film itself. ...