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Anna Calvi is very cool, yeah.
Doesn't bother me if the singer doesn't 'draw people' as long as it's a decent song. I have no interest in how financially successful the film is. It will certainly be successful enough to guarantee the making of another Bond film.
So two counts against Sting then! ;)
I'd prefer Lana Del Rey myself!
I'm trying to think of someone I wouldn't prefer to him... :D
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/health/sia-neurological-disease-announcement-twitter/index.html
That's awful.
Thought this had a real 60's Bond feel to it when I first heard it.
I could imagine them doing a great Bondy style song, yes. But they're not the right profile at the moment, agreed.
And she is very hot too, so i don't mind cameo aka TLD concert.
I don’t keep up on modern music that much, but this is the first time I saw a tweet like this from an established artist instead of an amateur.
Surely if you as an artist are serious about it, you don't share that information until you're
A) picked yourself (Adele announcing she's 'doing a theme' on Graham Norton)
or
B) not picked, and the singer has been announced (Radiohead with Spectre)
What’s the first rule about Fight Club? 😏
I'm sure this has been explained before and Sam Mendes confirmed it, Radiohead were the original artist before Sam Smith. They recorded a song Man of War (infinitely superior). Although despite never releasing it officially, the fact they'd played it live since the 90s on and off it was rejected.
This reason was most likely down to Oscar illegibility, then they went to Smith. Thom Yorke and the band went off and thought they'd have a crack at it with a new song, they contact Mendes and told him they'd composed a new song.
He told them they had the song but asked to listen to it, they said if he could use he was welcome. Mendes then tried several times tried to incorporate it into the film but couldn't do it justice so gave up.
He said he felt the song at the time wasn't what they were going for at it wouldn't fit.
He then admitted that he then saw the version of the main credits with their Spectre song and then thought that it did fit but thought it was probably cooler to say Radiohead almost did the theme.
This was all discussed on BBC 6 Radio a few years ago with Miranda Sawyer. Not sure if the program is available to listen to still but here is a link.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09clppp
Someone even took the time to show how it would have looked.
I heard that. It's very good.
I think what typically happens is Eon and the director invite preferred artists to read the script and write a song. It doesn't mean the song will be chosen or that the singer will even agree for them to use said song. These artists would include Sam Smith, Adele, Amy Winehouse and Madonna.
However, at the same time, prospective songs are submitted by artists who wish to be considered. Very rarely are these artists successful in their bids.
There are those occassions where the composer gets his way and writes a song for a particular artist. This happened frequently in the John Barry days. David Arnold was only successful twice in getting the title song - with Garbage and Chris Cornell.
I really really want Lana del Rey. I mean No Time to Die is basically a Lana Del Rey song title.
But I also think Radiohead are v cool and could do a great theme. though I can't help but think this idiot will get it.................
Jonny Greenwood is a prolific film scorer in his own right for Paul Thomas Anderson and Yorke recently provided the score to the Suspiria remake for Luca Guadagnino
Radiohead know how to do this kind of thing so brilliantly and the only comfort I take is that I wouldn't have wanted one of my favourite band's delivering the theme to that film so in the end the film got the song it deserved.
If only the film would have been worthy of Radiohead's brilliance.
Boy George is probably by far the biggest talent officially mentioned in this context. What makes me very uncomfortable is that Boy George himself gives credulity to the Sheeran/Dua Lipa rumors :-(.
No idea if that rule is always 100% followed. We know Ed Sheeran has a song already written. If he were to contact EON, would they give him a fair shot? Going by the above, they would reject it because they didn't ask for it.
May be as close as he’s going to get to a Bond theme!
...and his typically Boy-Georgian response to the release is ... 😉