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I think so because it's a classic song.
Anyone else have this song stuck in their head?
This is a classic. SS and Peeing on the Walls is truly awful.
Yet I've been listening to Writing's on the Wall dozens of times since it's release (I'm leasting to it right now).
I think OHMSS is going to be a huge inspiration for Spectre - and as Smith says it's Bond's love song (yawn). I think we had a hint of OHMSS sounds in the SP haven't we already.
Anyway this is a bonified classic.
Wow! That was great! Thank you for undeniably valid contribution to the discussion!
Well, who are we to judge if Sam Smith will be the same legend in several decades than Tom Jones is. You never know.
Or would anyone have bet back in 1985 that Madonna still would sell millions of records in 2015 and be the undisputed Queen of Pop??
a-ha and Duran Duran still are releasing new albums that sell well among their fan base and this 30 years after AVTAK and Take On Me.
Sam Smith may just be the Tom Jones of our days.
Cool! \:D/ :-j
I think it will be the only thing he is remembered for, strictly because it is a Bond theme.
I tend to agree with this. His name will be in the history books because of it, and that's about it.
I'd argue that it's very few: definitely GF, YOLT, DAF, LALD, and NDIB; arguably FYEO and AVTAK; and likely SF (although it's still early days). So that's 8 out of 23--less than one-third.
The rest only get trotted out every few years when a new Bond film opens.
Time will tell for Sam Smith's song.
What I'm saying is I don't remember too much after the fact positive changes to opinion on Bond songs with time. How one feels at the start is usually how it's remembered. Smith's song is and always will be polarizing.....some love it (evidently) and some think it stinks (count me in).
I remember the same with Madonna's DAD. A very attractive girl I was seeing at the time loved it and played it all the time...she tried to convince me it was good...needless to say it didn't last long.
Just curious, if this new song isn't #worstBondsongever, what pray tell might be? I'll concede you possibly DAD or AWTD, but IMO every other one of the 23 Bond titles (not including JBT in this list ) has considerable merit as worthy Bond title.
I actually do very much like 20 of the 23 titles. Some I have on pedestal as all-time classics, the others I just really like.
DAD & AWTD I don't like, and never have, but even then I don't mind listening to AWTD. It has sort of grown on me, in a quirky way. DAD though is utterly awful- a screeching, unmusical mess (surprisingly, crafted by someone who had been quite adept over the years at churning out catchy songs) but DAD still is not as horrid as Pissings on the Washroom Wall, or whatever this new drek is called.
I can honestly say this is one of the worst songs that I have ever heard in my life. That's because, when something is this bad, I never listen to it all the way thru. I'll kill it and pretty much blackball the artist.
This song, I did listen to all the way through, out of obligation as Bond fan. I even had it loud, it pains to me say. But I can't remember hating any song that I have listened to all the way through as much as this one.
It truly is the worst thing in the world. Needless to say I have blackballed Smith as "artist."
I admit I've never listened to his stuff before, although maybe I have and I managed to turn it off, before I could hear it through. I do that a lot with car radio.
But I had also never listened to one Adele song or one Aha song before either, and was barely familiar with Cornell and Soundgarden too, but these artists all cranked out great Bond songs. SF still isn't a favourite, but it has grown on me. It's worthy.
And even with the old 60's and 70's songs - I didn't know many of these artists until I first discovered them on the Bond landscape ie Nancy, Monroe, Bassey, Lulu..even Rita Coolidge, but that didn't impact my ability to be wowed by their Bond renditions.
Nope, this Sam Smith song is absolute Worst Bond Song Ever, IMHO of course.
Shame, as this film is going to be epic in so many ways.
Queen Abba and Carpenters are all great artists. I latched onto all of them immediately, upon first hearing. None of their music had to grow on me. I used to hum SOS incessantly and Queen is one of the great rock bands of history.
Now, Sam Smith may be a great artist -he does have a fan base after all - but for Bond he has managed to record one of the worst songs ever laid down. Just a bad bad bad, lame lame lame awful horrid putrid cringy ballad.
Eon could have listened to Craig and brought back Adele for an encore...ah well...whats done....etc
@timmer speaks the truth. I think what so distresses so many posters who dislike SS's Peeing on The Wall, is that SS is also peeing on the film. This mess of a song is nailed to SP forever. I don't know how much he may undermine SP, and every interview he gives, but I cannot see how his screeching falsetto can possibly help. To SS, this is all bout him, not Bond.
I keep hoping that EON will see the truth behind the backlash, and move this mess to the end credits, and put an instrumental version on the opening credits. But I guess it is too late. Other than how bad their taste and judgement was, Mendes and ION also approved a mawkish lyric that is a spoiler. It belongs at the end of the film, which is bad enough.
Is this a thing now? I've seen it a few times and each is as witless as the last.
Boohoo it spoils the movie, really because Adele's could not save the movie.
CR did alright with that subpar rocksong that is today unrecognisable as a bondsong unless you are a Bondfan.
All this moaning is indeed the writing on the wall. peopel are starting to regret the wisdom of getting Mendes for a second time.
But in all fairness I would agree that this is not SS best record.
I do sympathize, however, with those who don’t. It’s always so unfortunate to dislike a Bond song, since (like the movies themselves) we only get one every two or three years! I’d rather dislike the song and love the movie than the other way around, though.