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Taken from Deadline Hollywood 2012
“Meanwhile Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 Skyfall ticket-buyers and found that... 54% said Adele’s new theme song increased their awareness of the movie...”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2012/11/skyfall-opens-with-imax-midnights-as-321m-bond-movie-abroad-arrives-in-u-s-canada-spielbergs-lincoln-platforms-368990/amp/
Well, you may be in luck... ;)
(Debating whether to try and get an instrumental - since Zimmer was after all involved - for the NTTD section)
Ok fair enough. I'll be the first one here praising Babs if NTTD is any good, believe me.
Now I've heard it more I can judge it better. Normally Bond songs grow on me, but this has done the opposite.
Oh well. As long as the film is good, I can live with a song I don't care for.
Okay. Let's just say that you delight in being provocative ;-)
That’s very interesting. That’s a pretty huge number.
Of course, it is sometimes hard to compare every decade, each decade is unique.
I really wanted to hear a version of it with some drums on; I tried YouTube for one and the versions there... all have too much drums! :D
That would be huge for Eilish, as none of her videos have hit the billion view club yet, and “Skyfall” is only past 300 million. So for this to have a billion views with be huge.
And to bring 2012 into context, while Adele’s song never reached a billion that year, “Gangnam Style” did and was the very first to break that barrier. Does that song even hold up 8 years later?? @-)
Now I'm quite curious what Kleinman has in store for us.
And it's definitely Bondian; got some good touches. B-)
It seems to me the majority of fans on the forum are either quite liking it or at least say it is okay. That's a nice surprise to me. This forum tends to nitpick and be negative. Now if she's done something really different, fresh, or "out there" it would not have gone over well here. Yes, it's "another" ballad, but I think it will match the theme of this Bond film. Adele's voice is stronger, but I enjoyed Billie's song. I never enjoyed Sam's.
People saying this is from Bond's perspective is interesting; I personally do not think that is necessarily so. But I don't sweat it, either. Just nice to have the song, it's going to be splendid with Kleinman's title sequence, and on we go. I hope her performance with Zimmer at the Brits is excellent. I think her own fans will make sure it's a hit record, no matter what.
And I have enjoyed all of Craig's entire tenure. Smart, thought provoking, stunningly filmed Bond movies with strong emotional core and a brilliant, realistically acted Bond. Craig has really lived and breathed Bond. I'm so glad he came along at this time; really happy to have all of his films in this series. His time as Bond has definitely renewed, rejuvenated, and sparked the film series. And this is the right one for Daniel to retire with. I am not concerned about anything at this point. Glad to have it at more than 2 1/2 hrs, too. Thrilled with what I have seen from Cary and Linus. April cannot get here soon enough. B-)
I'm amazed anything has had a billion views to be honest; that's incredible. There's a great stat about the difference between a million and a billion: as humans we can't really process the size once something gets unimaginably large, but it's easier to comprehend when you say that a million seconds is 11.5 days- a billion seconds is just under 32 years. Always blows my mind, that one! :D
As someone who initially didn’t like WOTW, I thought the Kleinman sequence was so good that it ended up enhancing the song. It’s still middle tier as far as I’m concerned (I only genuinely like a few Bond songs anyway). I liked NTTD immediately and can already see a Kleinman sequence enhancing it to being something I may actually love. We’ll see.
They always do: he even managed to make Die Another Day make sense!
It's kind of criminal he got dropped for QoS: sometimes you want the producers not to let their directors have so much control! :D
I've now listened to it at least 50 times and I think objectively it is dull, dour and monotonous. I understand this supposed to reflect the Craig era, but I think therein lies the problem. While I'm sure the somber and quiet tones will tie in well with the Kleinman titles and the overall theme of the film, I just feel that the Craig era post Casino Royale has given us much of the same, particularly when it comes to the title songs. I'm hopeful that No Time To Die will deliver and theme aside it looks breahtaking, but I feel that it's ties to Spectre will be a hindrance more than a help. I look forward to be proven wrong.
#4 trending video on YT...and it isn't even a "video."
This is more good news for Billie, EON, and CJF.
I noticed in this latest trailer that
It is a bit of a downer, but I expect it to fit the film. It's possible for the title song to be tonally disconnected from the rest of the film (I'd argue that that is the case for many of the Moore and Brosnan entries, and even YOLT) but I question whether the song should be disconnected...
Gawd, I can't imagine how Kleinman would make AWTD bearable. That would have been a true miracle. I was open to MK12 getting a crack at doing the titles in 2008, as I believe variety enriches the franchise. But yeah, that doesn't hold up. So repetitive with the constant sand and gun motifs.
Completely agree with you. There’s a general malaise amongst certain Bond fans who simply want cookie cutter entries every couple of years with a knock off Barry theme and the same format played out ad Infinitum. EON have not always knocked it out of the park and, as is to be expected, they’ve made decisions that certain people vehemently disagree with (I too haven’t always agreed with what they’ve done) but I cannot fault their ambition. They’ve worked hard to maintain Bond as a premium brand within a fluid market and challenged by the huge influx of new kids on the block they’ve done exceptionally well as far as I’m concerned. It cannot be underestimated that Bond is still finding itself trending at the peak of modern media.