Sam Law of Kerrang! named it the band's sixth best song in April 2020, describing it as a "deliciously insidious single" and "largely unlike anything else they'd done" he further said that it was "the best thing to come out of 2016's otherwise almost-entirely abortive Suicide Squad adaptation." Commercial performance Its musical composition harbors an anthemic, grandiose rap rock soundscape. The song has a basic sequence of C–Em–Am–Em in the verses, changes to C/E–Am–Em–C–Am–B 7 during the pre-chorus, and follows C–Am–E at the refrain, bridge and outro as its chord progression. "Heathens" is composed in the key of E minor, while Tyler Joseph's vocal range spans one octave and three notes, from a low of E 3 to a high of G 4. According to the sheet music published at by Alfred Music, it is written in the time signature of common time, with a moderate tempo of 90 beats per minute. "Heathens" is a rap rock song with elements of industrial, dark wave and rock that lasts for a duration of three minutes and fifteen seconds.
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Even though the themes in the movie inspired the beginning of it, as the lyrics came together, and as the song came together, I realized, this was our song. And I want it to resonate with our fans and make sense at our show. Īs I was writing the song I was like, I want this song to be a Twenty One Pilots song first. The soundtrack was released on August 5, 2016. The following day, June 16, it was revealed that the song would be featured on the motion picture soundtrack for the 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team Suicide Squad. Later that same day, Twenty One Pilots tweeted a message in Morse code which read "takeitslow", a lyric taken from the song "Heathens". On June 15, 2016, the song was leaked through a Reddit post.