The overlap of Swifties and Team Edward appears to be going strong more than 15 years later.
While opening for Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour this weekend in London, Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams dedicated the band’s 2008 single ‘Decode’ to Robert Pattinson after the song appeared on the soundtrack of his breakout film Twilight that year.
“Did you guys see Suki [Waterhouse] earlier?” she asked the crowd in a fan-captured video after Pattinson’s wife performed earlier in the night at the Wembley Stadium concert. “But I would like to dedicate this next song to Mr. Waterhouse.”
Quoting Pattinson’s vampire character Edward Cullen from the movie and the 2005 Stephenie Meyer book, Williams teased, “This is the skin of a killer, Bella.”
“This is for you, Robert,” said Williams as the song began.
Pattinson played the 108-year-old vampire who falls in love with Forks, Washington teen Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in all five of the YA-adapted films, including New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn — Part 1 (2011) and Part 2 (2012).
After the movies grossed more than $3.4B globally, Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns announced in March that the studio is shopping an animated Twilight series that he expects will generate “a lot of interest.” Deadline confirmed the project was in early development last April, with Meyer expected to be attached.
