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If Hans Zimmer is to be believed, the producers didn't want her song and Hans fought for her.
There's a lot in Serra's score I love: the gunbarrel, the GoldenEye Overture, Run, Shoot and Jump, Little Surprise for You, etc
Very atmospheric score.
I wouldn't mind the films returning to a different song for the end credits...or at least a reprise of the title song. I think having the Bond theme played during the end credits got old decades ago.
Fair enough! Sounds like you know more about it than I do.
The end credits is a brilliant place for a theme-song-runner-up, a la Tomorrow Never Dies, I think. Would have loved to have heard Radiohead's theme after the Bond Theme plays out the end of Spectre.
She wasn't even nominated for any Grammy when she recorded the song.
That was long afterwards.
Her litle voice, her age (born in 2001) with the subject of Daniel Craig and her public in mind and the special difrent videoclips be reasen for my choose. I am a litle bit disapointed with videoclip in front of theater thing (and mixed with movie footage), whyle later in better videoclip actualy she been seen on theater stage. Overall everthing is Theater!, so there stil succede.
Also i am disapointed there is no cdsingle, but was one of other worries. On this moment it look we situation like Another way to die, also no cdsingle but wil be avaible on soundtrack.
She wil made Daniel Craig era subject mabey better to understand by people with her age and at same time stil do same thing with lyrics as Adele and Sam Smith. She also fit the camp of people with a thing. Chris Cornell was deprest, Alicia Keys is black, Jack White possible drugs user, Adele was not small, Sam Smith is gay and Billie Elish is young weirdo.
All the above is written by left handed person ;)
So, Balje, what's your 'thing'?
And I don't get any of what Balje typed there.
I mean... I'm scared. That post reads like a fever dream.
English definitely isn't his first language. It's part of why I've skipped over his posts since the KTBEU days.
I have a similar experience when reading posts by Balje.
Understatement.
No, it isn't.
So do I.
Indeed, there isn't.
I think most people were taking issue with this:
She also fit the camp of people with a thing. Chris Cornell was deprest, Alicia Keys is black, Jack White possible drugs user, Adele was not small, Sam Smith is gay and Billie Elish is young weirdo.
As if these characteristics are just fun quirks and pieces of trivia that allow us to clump them all into the same box, rather than, in some cases, deep psychological traumas that brought some of them to hang themselves.
There's being sensitive and empathetic to the situations of others, and then there's this shit. "Hey Adele, your thing is that you're "not small"! And Sam, you're a gay!"
Let's go back to the topic of this thread.
What I found interesting about the variety interview was the statement of Billie's brother: he explained that Zimmer produced much more orchestrations and Fienneas could decide how much of Zimmer's contribution he wanted to use for the song. They obviously used only a small part of Zimmer's orchestration. It's possible that it works best the way it is, nevertheless I would love to hear the song with a bit more “panache“/power.
Is this the most minimalistic use of instruments/orchestra of all Bond theme songs?
And are the last seconds of the song (where we only hear the well known guitar part) a good thing or an inappropriate “fan-service“?
All good points and questions. I'd love to hear a more orchestra heavy version of the song as well. Nice though that Finneas and Billie both got a lot of say in how the song turned out. I think it probably is the most minimalistic song in the franchise' history now that you mention it.
I believe the guitar part at the end you're referring to leans more towards inappropriate "fan service", unfortunately. Doesn't fit with the song at all. Perhaps if there was more of the guitar in the song leading up to the end?
I also feel this way about the released Gunbarrel track for the film. Don't like the clean guitar line, it sticks out too much for me. Wish they had stuck to what they had in Spectre. It really feels like "they used to have clean guitar in the music... we have a guitar now... we must use it!!"
I posted this on another thread last February. Unsure if it's been posted on this thread.
This version somehow doesn't work for me.
I like aspects of it, when I first heard it almost a year ago it made me appreciate the theme more and the potential it had orchestrally
Yes it's quite boring, isn't it? The bit of this song I hope does make it to the score is that repeated four note motif with the chord progression you hear at about 3.05 into that, I could imagine that driving through the film quite nicely.