Bruce Springsteen Teams With Bryce Dessner for New Song ‘Addicted to Romance’

Bruce Springsteen teams up with Bryce Dessner for the new track “Addicted to Romance,” the end credits song from the upcoming film She Came to Me that the National member scored.

The E Street Band rocker wrote the track after watching the film, with Springsteen also providing vocals, piano, and keyboards to the ballad. While Dessner orchestrated the track, his wife Patti Scialfa served as background vocalist.

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“Working with Rebecca Miller on her new film She Came to Me has been one of the best and most rewarding experiences of my creative life,” Dessner said in a statement.

“When Rebecca asked me about working on a song for the end credits I immediately thought (perhaps unrealistically!) that it would be incredible to ask Bruce Springsteen to write a song. Rebecca agreed, and we sent the film to Bruce, and, to our surprise and delight, he responded very positively. Shortly after, Bruce sent us a demo of the song he wrote inspired by the film, ‘Addicted to Romance,’ which felt like an instant classic the minute we heard it.”

Dessner continued, “The song also features Bruce’s wife, Patti Scialfi, and their voices blend together for the perfect ending to the movie. As a lifelong Bruce fan, along with my bandmates, he is one of our biggest influences, it was a dream to work on this song with Bruce, and he was incredibly generous and open to my ideas and contributions.”

She Came to Me stars Marisa Tomei, Anne Hathaway, and Peter Dinklage, who has become somewhat of a big-screen collaborator of the National: Dessner and company previously contributed music to the actor’s 2021 film Cyrano, including the National’s end credits song “Somebody Desperate.”

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