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He "should" have done whatever he wanted. He's the one who won the Oscar.
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from his hit records comes rolling in! Is in anyway worried by what we think. :D
Here here
Looks good on posters, or slip cases. =D>
Exactly :)
Ever disliked was AWTD from QOS, but from many, many listenings even it grew on me
In fact I've even found a place where it sounds great ( to me at least ) driving in the car ! :)
Yeah I think it's okay, never really got the hatred to it. It's not the best Bond song, but it's not that bad.
one of her big ballads ( as planned) it could have been wonderful.
As a song it's not that bad, in fact, as a big fan of Alicia Keys, I listened to it countless times.
But for a Bond movie it is more or less the worst there ever was together with Die Another Day.
One of the reasons I am so fond of WOTW is because it is a classic instantly recognisable Bond song. Skyfall is a classic as well.
So true, when it is played in the train scene after the fight, with Madeleine and Bond getting it on, my eyes water every time. I'm a hopeless romantic :))
Lucky for you, the Bee Gees never did a Bond theme :)
I can actually understand that the falsetto singing of Sam is not for everyone. I like it, but my wife for instance also doesn't like it.
His, as delivered in this song, is just not for me.
To TSWLM from the Bee Here disco album ? :))
to anyone but me.
If it had been Marc Almond or David Mcalmont both openly gay artists I would have been truly excited but I just don't get this Smith is hugely talented talk. I agree the transition from the end of PTS in the helicopter with the strings is fantastic and truly Bondian but then he starts singing and I head for the door.
I'm certainly not homphobic I just find the song utterly attrocious, I'm sorry but this is my view and if it had been any other artist that had released the song they'd be getting the same treatment.
Also it seems now that Bond theme tunes are going to get an obvious nod in this category from now on, to me give such a sub standard song this award just shows they really must have been desperate. I get Skyfall getting the Oscar even though I wasn't bowled over by that but WOTW? Were the other contenders really that bad?
Also all this I should be happy for Bond because it got an Oscar talk, I don't blindly support the series without criticism so why should I be happy that it got the award. Congrats to Smith for his win but I don't have to feel good about it.
Can you imagine if Newman had been nominated for his vanilla effort for SPECTRE and won, I'm sure the knives would have been out then and rightly so.
There were more than enough posts that showed hate for the singer.
It is not utter BS, it is the sad truth.
People can read. It is clear who was merely criticising the song, or choice of song, and who was criticising the song/the singer because he is gay and/or sings falsetto.
People telling him to "get over" all the hate slung at him for his sexuality, a part of him as arbitrary and natural as his eye color or height, should get a damn clue.
Obviously people arguing such things aren't familiar with the sting associated with homosexuality in this ethically dire western culture, where a person's name is slung through the mud and they are sometimes made to endure physical and emotional harm just for being who they are. Some think Sam should have used his Oscar time to thank more people in favor of expressing his very real struggles to success, but guess what? You're not Sam and you're not in his situation. Nor do you have any authority to tell him how best to use his big moment; you didn't write the song, you didn't collaborate with Mendes-hell, most of you don't even like the damn thing anyway.
Sam's dissenters don't know the kind of negative and damaging garbage he's had to climb his way through not because he actively brought it on himself and not because he is a bad person. No, he's had to deal with slants against his name and character just because he is being who he is, an openly gay man. He wanted to use the very brief window he was allotted to devote time to his struggle and to give hope and support to others like him all over the world who may be facing similar umbrage and cruelty. Anyone making a case against him in that respect should be ashamed of themselves.
How would some of you feel if you walked down the street every day and people poked and prodded at you for something you couldn't change about yourself, an aspect of your genetic makeup as natural as breathing? You'd have no control over why you were being hated, and would face constant battering day and night, your only crime being that you were being yourself. Wouldn't feel too good, would it?
People telling Sam to get over the hate, and others who say heterosexuals never have to make a point of their sexuality in speeches tragically miss the big issue here and show their lack of understanding for what is a crucial world issue of diversity acceptance.
Christ, it depresses and appalls me how some people think sometimes. This is my final piece on this. Like @RC7 I'm fed up with all this bullshit.