Niall Horan shared “Dinner Party,” the first single from his forthcoming album of the same name. The former One Direction member wrote the track with John Ryan, Jamie Scott, Afterhrs, and Julian Bunetta.
The intimate, acoustic number recounts a meeting at a dinner party that sparks a once-in-a-lifetime feeling of connection. “Knives, forks/ And things I’ve never felt before,” Horan sings. “Crashing lights/ When you first saw me/ Yeah, I met you at a dinner party/ Chandeliers, 2 a.m. coffee/ Yeah, I met you at a dinner party.”
Dinner Party, Horan’s fourth solo album, will arrive on June 5 via Capitol Records. The LP was executive produced by Julian Bunetta and John Ryan, Horan’s longtime collaborators. Co-writers included Afterhrs, Amy Allen, Ian Franzino, Andrew Haas, Steph Jones, Rocky Block, and Joel Little.
“Dinner Party is a thank you to the past and a hello to the present, covering the big life events and the small, sometimes messy, in-between moments that actually make them up,” Horan shared in a statement. “Much of the album explores that tug of war between falling in love while being terrified of losing them and how that risk is actually the best part. There’s love, intimacy, fear, loss, hope, dreams—all wrapped together across it.”
In a recent interview with Capital Breakfast, Horan revealed that he wrote “Dinner Party” after meeting his long-time girlfriend. “This was the [song] that I was like, ‘OK, this is where the album starts from here,’” he said. “Because my relationship started on the night that this song is about. And I realized that that dinner party became a bigger thing than just sitting around, getting drunk, and having a bit of food. It’s become the next six years of my life and hopefully the rest of it. So it allowed me to then go and write songs that were about all of the moments of this said relationship.”