History Music / EverythingThatHappensWillHappenToday

* {{Feelies}}: In addition to its elaborate outer tin, the deluxe addition comes packaged with a six-sided die with nonsense phrases on each face, a sugar pill, and a bonus disc of additional songs.

''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', released in 2008, is the second collaborative album by Scottish-American art pop musician Music/DavidByrne and English {{ambient}} musician Music/BrianEno. Marking Byrne's eighth studio album overall, the album brings the duo together again for the first time since Music/TalkingHeads' ''Music/RemainInLight'' in 1980 and the earlier-made-but-later-released ''Music/MyLifeInTheBushOfGhosts'' in 1981-- in fact, this album directly owes its existence to that latter one.

* LongTitle: Like ''Music/MyLifeInTheBushOfGhosts'', ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'' doesn't shoot for brevity with its name. In fact, while it's only a word shorter, in terms of character count it's even longer, at 41 characters compared to its predecessor's 29 (counting spaces).

* PrecisionFStrike: True to Byrne's philosophy of keeping the shock value of cussing by limiting its use, the album's sole instance of heavy swearing is with an offhanded mention of "when the angel fucks the hole" in "My Big Nurse".

** "Life is Long" uses the classic "♪ _ ♪ _ ♫ ♪ _ ♫ ♫ _ ♫ _" football chant rhythm for its percussion track.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Composition-wise, "Poor Boy" is this to [[Music/RemainInLight "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)"]], with both being chaotic, polyrhythmic songs with preacher-esque lyrics and vocals.

Put together in sporadic sessions over the course of two years (owed to both the physical distance between the pair and their simultaneous work on other projects), this album marks a noticeable shift in both artists' styles, incorporating significant electronic and {{gospel|Music}} elements removed from both the mostly acoustic BaroquePop of Byrne's previous solo album, ''Music/GrownBackwards'', and the ambient material that comprises the majority of Eno's portfolio. With the onset of the 2007 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession, coupled with the simultaneous commodification of the internet, the duo decided to take this approach and center it around themes of humanity versus technology and the perseverance of optimism in the face of increasingly bleak circumstances, setting the tone for Byrne's later work that would culminate in his "Reasons to Be Cheerful" project and ''Music/AmericanUtopia'' in 2018.

** "Life is Long" uses the classic "1, 2, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, 1-2" football chant rhythm for its percussion track.

Upon release, ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'' was widely praised by critics, who lauded the album's vibrant energy, eclectic style, and ability to draw connections with both Byrne & Eno's solo works and earlier collaborations (both with and without Talking Heads) while still standing on its own. ''Consequence of Sound'' regarded the album as a logical continuation of ''Grown Backwards'', ''The Village Voice'' praised it as "more expansive and adventurous" than anything Byrne had put out since, and ''The Chicago Tribune''[='s=] Greg Kot described Byrne's performances on the album as some of the best of his career up to that point. Fifteen publications, including most of the ones just mentioned, would list the album as one of the best of 2008, and though it still didn't do much in terms of commercial success (only peaking at No. 174 in the US and No. 153 in the UK), reviewers nonetheless regarded it as one of Byrne & Eno's best works and a landmark release in Byrne's career following the huge GrowingTheBeard moment of ''Grown Backwards''.

** "The River" namedrops "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Music/SamCooke.

->''"Where does the sanguine and heartening tone come from, particularly in these troubled times? [...] Some of my lyrics and melodies were a response to what I sensed lay buried in the music. My task was to bring forth into language what was originally non-verbal. In the end, we have made something together that neither of us could have made on our own."''

->''"These songs have elements of [[Music/MyLifeInTheBushOfGhosts our previous work]]-- no surprise there-- but something new has emerged here as well. Where does the sanguine and heartening tone come from, particularly in these troubled times? [...] Some of my lyrics and melodies were a response to what I sensed lay buried in the music. My task was to bring forth into language what was originally non-verbal. In the end, we have made something together that neither of us could have made on our own."''

->''"These songs have elements of our previous work-- no surprise there-- but something new has emerged here as well. Where does the sanguine and heartening tone come from, particularly in these troubled times? [...] Some of my lyrics and melodies were a response to what I sensed lay buried in the music. My task was to bring forth into language what was originally non-verbal. In the end, we have made something together that neither of us could have made on our own."''

* ShoutOut: "The River" namedrops "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Music/SamCooke.

Fitting with the expansion of the internet in people's lives, Byrne and Eno decided to eschew traditional marketing for the album, in particular avoiding any promotional releases aside from a single live performance of "One Fine Day" for a crowd of senior citizens. Instead, the pair hired Topspin Media to run a viral marketing campaign that advertised the project through word of mouth. Additionally, taking note of Music/{{Radiohead}}'s unconventional release strategy for ''Music/InRainbows'', the pair had the album self-released online at exactly 4:00:00 UTC on August 18, 2008. Consumers could also order physical copies of the album, which were delivered by mail within the next three months, after which independent distributors were given further print runs to stock in brick and mortar stores. At the end of the year, the album was released on LP, marking Byrne's first vinyl release since ''Music/UhOhDavidByrneAlbum'' all the way back in 1992 (and just in time for the Vinyl Revival).

Fitting with the expansion of the internet in people's lives, Byrne and Eno decided to eschew traditional marketing for the album, in particular avoiding any promotional releases aside from a single live performance of "One Fine Day" for a crowd of senior citizens. Instead, the pair hired Topspin Media to run a viral marketing campaign that advertised the project through word of mouth. Additionally, taking note of Music/{{Radiohead}}'s unconventional release strategy for ''Music/InRainbows'', the pair had the album self-released online at exactly 4:00:00 UTC on August 18, 2008. Consumers could also order physical copies of the album, which were delivered by mail within the next three months, after which independent distributors were given further print runs to stock in brick and mortar stores. At the end of the year, the album was released on LP, marking Byrne's first vinyl release since ''Uh-Oh'' all the way back in 1992 (and just in time for the Vinyl Revival).

* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The standard CD release is made to look like a real estate brochure, with a wide shot of the exterior on the front and various up-close pictures and interior shots within the liner notes, interspersed with lyrics in place of descriptive text.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: "Everything That Happens" features the narrator offhandedly mentioning seeing his neighbor's car explode on the freeway, in the same tone of voice as describing the sound of hearing someone laughing.