{"id":69170,"date":"2026-07-24T06:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/hear-u2-martin-garrix-team-up-for-anthemic-single-fireflies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:24:43","slug":"hear-u2-martin-garrix-team-up-for-anthemic-single-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/hear-u2-martin-garrix-team-up-for-anthemic-single-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear U2, Martin Garrix Team Up for Anthemic Single &#8216;Fireflies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/u2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_u2\" data-tag=\"u2\">U2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/martin-garrix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_martin-garrix\" data-tag=\"martin-garrix\">Martin Garrix<\/a> released a joint single, \u201cFireflies.\u201d Garrix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/martin-garrix-new-u2-song-fireflies-the-edge-tomorrowland-1235595612\/\">premiered the track<\/a> live during his headlining set at Tomorrowland last Friday, which feature a surprise appearance from The Edge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe soaring track marks the first time all four members of U2 have appeared on a song with Garrix, although the band members have a long history of working with the producer. Most recently, Garrix produced \u201cScars,\u201d featured on U2\u2019s latest EP, <em>Easter Lily<\/em>. In 2019, Martin collaborated with Bono and The Edge on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/martin-garrixs-song-we-are-the-people-featuring-bono-the-edge-1169353\/\">\u201cWe Are the People,\u201d<\/a> written for the UEFA European Football Championship. He also produced the U2 track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-sing-2-track-your-song-saved-my-life-1252862\/\">Your Song Saved My Life<\/a>\u201d that appeared on the\u00a0<em>Sing 2<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack. Bono has also co-written Garrix singles like \u201cAngels for Each Other,\u201d Catherina,\u201d and \u201cWeightless.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireflies\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tnaZ61O5HnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe go back a long way with Martin, and there\u2019s always a sense of adventure whenever we get together,\u201d The Edge shared in a statement. \u201cPlaying \u2018Fireflies\u2019 for the first time at Tomorrowland, in front of one of the most passionate festival crowds anywhere, was such a rush\u2026 in fact I might have enjoyed it a bit too much. It reminded me of why I love playing outdoors. I like it better when there\u2019s no ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGarrix added, \u201c\u2018Fireflies\u2019 has a very unique mood and it\u2019s a special song we started working on six summers ago. It felt electrifying and very surreal to finally debut it at Tomorrowland with The Edge. I\u2019ve worked with Bono and Edge before, but working with the whole band I got to get a glimpse of their chemistry and why U2 are who they are. They are incredible friends and collaborators, and it has been an absolute honor to work with them again.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tU2 released EP <em>Days Of Ash<\/em> in February. They shared EP,\u00a0<em>Easter Lily<\/em>,\u00a0on Good Friday. Their latest single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-new-song-street-of-dreams-upcoming-studio-album-1235590299\/\">\u201cStreet of Dreams,\u201d<\/a> is the first song off the band\u2019s next studio album, due for release later this year. U2\u2019s next album, timed to their 50th anniversary, will mark the band\u2019s first LP since 2023\u2019s\u00a0<em>Songs of Surrender<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier the summer, Garrix collaborated with Madonna on \u201cBizarre\u201d for her new album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/madonna-confessions-ii-album-review-1235588293\/\">Confessions II<\/a><\/em>. In May, he teamed up with Ed Sheeran for \u201cRepeat It.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-martin-garrix-fireflies-single-1235598269\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 and Martin Garrix released a joint single, \u201cFireflies.\u201d Garrix premiered the track live during his headlining set at Tomorrowland last Friday, which feature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}