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There should go back to studio to recording the song again, if there not already did or plan to do and this radio edition (i only heard once) be demo. I think start of song whas disapointed, also he has some problems with his voice/audio is wrong recorded. So mabey there rushed it a bit whyle recording after hard day(s) of work. Melody with a bit of compose music is best part. I also think he should have song Writing's on the wall atleast once more.
To make more clear that i think it is recording, the radio edition of Dutch Singer Anouk who normaly sings English but made a Dutch song who sound better on youtube.
Judge your self
Volume is also one of problems i have with Anouk her LIVE performance at the Europ contest. If she did like she did at the selection she end 8th place i predict or mabey even higher but she end 9th because of not enough volume and less good choose of camera angle then at selection. Now i must say live acts,always it have problems with volume a lot of times.
For both songs count, i can't not understand what there sings in some part of the radio edition. First i thaught she sings about coffee. Mabey a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slissen
A bad Live version of Adele Skyfall...
Off topic a bit: I think Douwe Dobb wil going to score high scores/hopes on songs contest 2016 because he having that ''i do what i whant and don't give a dam what other think'' what Anouk and mabey Sam Smith have too.
I don't whant to lissen to Writing's on the wall til it be played on the radio again/till i have seen movie and then i wil lissen to it on single/soundtrack. Because i don't to much focus on lyrics.
Ah, the open minded vast majority has spoken. Proof of its brilliance.
I'm happy the song made it to the top on the charts, because in a way it would promote the gig better and have financial incomes from it, which would benefit the production. Personally, I still think it should have had a singer of a different genre with more enthusiastic approach to his or her execution of the tone, and I still wouldn't have missed the chance of getting Lana Del Rey's song without losing a minute. But, it is what it is, and we aren't the ones who would decide it. EON does know what it is doing for the good marketing.
It's not No. 1 on Billboard, The Weeknd is. It's the No. 1 trending song on the social media chart that tracks the most talked about tracks on Twitter, Facebook, ect. It hasn't been included on the singles chart yet. Look for yourself;
billboard.com/charts/hot-100
Just making sure. ;) A lot of people have been praising it already on Twitter saying it's No. 1 not knowing what it's No. 1 of and I saw one person telling Adele to "go suck it." lol
I understand a part of you can understand it, and that as a Bond song itself maybe it's not so fantastic. But trust me, it will fit perfectly in the movie.
Best Bond song ever? Better than Goldfinger? Live and Let Die? Better than We have all the time in the world? Better than From Russia With Love? Better than Nobody Does it better? Better than Thunderball? Better than A View to a Kill? Better than Diamonds are Forever?
The best Bond song ever...good luck with that.
Is it like sitting on a fence and waiting to see where the wind blows or like towing the party line?
What does one the best songs ever really mean? It means nothing, no substance, just a general safe statement that covers off all bases.
Stalin was one best dictators ever. Pol Pot was one of the best dictators ever. Ebola is one of the best viruses ever. They're not good though are they, like P*ssing on the Wall.
I can picture DC now from the red nose day mockumentary for comic relief with the chipmunk squeaky voice:
http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/media/Comic-Relief-Red-Nose-Day-2015-James-Bond-007-Sketch.mp4
I prefer WOTW more than Goldfinger and Thunderball. Everyone's knocking the lyrics but have you heard Goldfinger's lyrics? They're stupid. Same with Thunderball.
It's a great song.
It's unfortunate that the lyrics and the singer's singing approach (and that's really all it is, because many of us who can't stand this song actually don't mind hearing it sung by some of the cover artists) are polarizing the fan base so much.
If I was EON I wouldn't have chosen to go this route (I really didn't care who the singer was and had an open mind to Smith, but I would have personally controlled the schmaltz a little more, given it's coming from Bond's perspective......from what I heard, when Logan was scriptwriting similar syrupy aspects were in the script as well and had to be cleaned out).
The reason it's so painful for some fans is because it doesn't reflect who they think Bond is.....I personally feel it's more suited to the Twilight crowd.
Having said that, if it puts bums in seats (to be determined) and gets people talking (it has) then I'll live with it, because that's what's important these days, it seems...
Ok, the song... I was only vaguely familiar with Sam Smith's name before he was rumoured to do the song. I listened to some of his music then and didn't like it, and didn't like his voice. So, I was hoping he wouldn't be doing it, and said so. When it was eventually confirmed it would be him, I thought oh well, never mind, it's the movie that matters.
I went through quite a lot of comments in this thread before I had a chance to listen to the song, and going by them I thought it might be even worse than I feared. Upon listening to it - which I have by now done many times - I realized it's actually not that bad. Much better than I expected. Not amazing, and not something I'd want to buy for myself, but still pretty good. I still don't like Sam Smith's voice, but it doesn't bother me, either. To my surprise I didn't even hate the falsetto (though I agree with those who said Bono and BeeGees have done falsetto better). The lyrics aren't great, but lyrics of even much better pop songs usually aren't, and I don't care about that too much. In short, I can't say I love it, but I like it more than I dared to hope for.
I'm a bit confused about how important a song is considered to be, though. Do people really go see a movie (any movie) because they like the theme song? Or decide against seeing a movie if they dislike the theme song? I realize people do all sorts of weird stuff one doesn't comprehend, but I would imagine that a song's influence of selling movie tickets would be minimal, not something of great importance, but I guess I'm just clueless.
And yes - there has been a whiff of homophobia about some of the comments knocking about regarding Sam Smith and this Bond song. Not wholly on MI6 (but it's there in parts). He's too "effeminate", "it's too girly" etc etc. I don't remember anyone remarking on Chris Cornell saying "he's just way too masculine". People often don't mean it nor do they know they are doing it, but yes - there has been an element of homophobia surrounding this deliberately strange, personal and different sounding Bond song.
Sam Smith was chosen for his current popularity. His purpose first and foremost imho was to create awareness for the film, and to cast a wide net (like Adele). He has succeeded. Now the trailers and word of mouth will do the rest (in terms of getting people into theatres) but at least with all the press (good and bad) enough people know there is a James Bond movie out there with a song sung by Sam Smith. Mission accomplished.
In terms of it driving people to the theatre, that is a different question. It may, since more people know about it.
Speaking from my personal perspective, my enthusiasm for SP has diminished dramatically. I know it's irrational, but that's the way I feel at this point. I'm sure the film will turn me around and I hope the score will do the same, but the sheer depressiveness/god awful misery of this song (to me) has certainly taken away that eagerness I had.....I won't deny it. Even Madonna didn't do that for me. That song was crap, but it was not depressive.
The good news about this is the film can only be better than this song for me. So I'm one who is likely going to be very positively surprised in the theatre. I cannot be let down any more than I am now, and that's a good thing from my perspective.
James Bond can never be 'too masculine' imho. Quite simply, that's why there were no remarks to that effect about Cornell. I think it's inappropriate and just plain wrong to associate some of our disgust about this song with any implications about our views on gays. That is a false equivalence. Sure I think the song sounds 'girly', but that has no reflection on my view of Smith. If Cornell had sung the song this way I would have said the same thing about it. Thank goodness he did not.