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Couldn't agree more, @RC7.
It's really a perfect - imo - bookend to the Craig era and more specifically You Know My Name. Both songs very raw feeling in terms of vocals but they're coming in from opposing POVs - Cornell with the rock representing a younger, more arrogant and rookie Bond, and Eilish's being just two steps beyond Bond in his prime, with the more traditional orchestration. As others have also pointed out - it does sound like a combination of SF and WOTW but I'd argue that's almost intentional...first, the whole notion of this film wrapping up the Craig era, as well as the 'improving on Spectre' aspect. Eilish knocked out of the park what Smith didn't really get 100% last time round. But really the best thing about this - Zimmer and Marr's involvement - is how clearly and deeply it appears to be woven in with whatever happens in the film's opening scenes, as a key part of the narrative in its own right almost. And ultimately that's what it's best judged as rather than some larger context of how it works outside the film. Hence, why I think the criticism of 'it's not bold enough/it doesn't pump you up/too depressing' doesn't make sense because that context within the film - which one can glean from the trailers - is crucial. That being said, though it may just be the lack of time, YKMN and Skyfall both still have an element of being iconic, but I guess time will tell how this will stand up against those. But 100% a stronger song than WOTW and AWTD.
There just weren't any particularly good ideas in there. It's a good song though: I just listened to it just now and it's better than this one.
Fans just forget that even in the supposedly glory days of Cubby's run there was still division among fans on how well the series was doing at the time. It's not at all like the division only happened once Barbara was promoted as a producing partner with GE. Back in the 1970s/1980s there was a pretty vocal group of fans who were not pleased with the Roger Moore films and thought Cubby was running the series into the ground. Then with Dalton there were those who admired his dedication to Fleming but then there's those who wanted that pure cinematic Bond that Connery evoked that Dalton was just not playing up to.
Yeah you're right: I'm kind of surprised. No drama please, Bond meets M, goes to Q branch, flies to bahamas, meets girl 1 who dies, meets baddie, meets girl 2 who he kisses, kills baddie, kisses girl by water; all to the strains of David Arnold doing weak music but it's got trumpets so its good.
I get that fans are fans because they like how it used to be, but to not acknowledge that they'd complain how awful something like Live and Let Die is today because it changed the formula ever so slightly does surprise me a bit. It doesn't just stay the same. It only got massive because they changed the formula three films in.
I long for the days we had a different end title song, or a different take on the title song for the end titles.
The lyrics are rather clever and well sung, and despite being a Bond song, they actually flow and make sense. I can just picture what Kleinman will do in a few moments:
"I let it burn" = note burning
"Faces from my past return" = Safin's mask
There is restraint with this track, which I can appreciate. I also agree with folks that it blends the previous two songs - it has the melancholy isolationism of WOTW with the grandeur instrumentation of SF. And like both, it is weighted and is a bit of a downer (as in sad). And the best of all, it has a few good hooks, that keeps it memorable and me coming back, unlike WOTW.
Definitely a grower.
I also love how this song is just saying: "You betrayed me. I've been betrayed before, but I'm not gonna cry cause I need to save the world" Haha :D
Picking my jaw off the floor! :) I was underwhelmed the first time I heard it. It has grown on my. A hear Writing on the Wall influence for sure. I do wish it had grown larger in brassiness or just some more bombast as it went along. It kind of whimpers out. I feel the lyrics tie closely to the plot and seem to highlight the plot points.
Overall I am in the middle with a C+ I was expecting worse.
Having listened to Eilish’s song several times today, it has really grown on me, especially the orchestration at around two minutes in. And lyrically it could (like YOLT IMO) actually work outside of the context of the film.
That I'd fallen for a lie
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
……I let it burn, You're no longer my concern
Yelp! I’ve had a couple of (ex) friends that this applies to!!!!
A recent comment on YouTube: “Never will there be so many Bond movie tickets sold to 12 year old girls in oversized sweaters”
BTW: Judging by some of the “reaction” videos, the above comment may be spot on. See:
"Oh life is so hard, no time to live.
No time to die... life is so pain...ful."
Lana Del Ray has made a career out of dreary pop! :D
After I heard the song I kind wished Amy Winehouse were still alive. She could have been a great Bond singer. I reckon had her career not gone into self-destructive mode she would have done a Craig Bond theme.
But yeah: it's a matter of record that she definitely was working on the theme for Quantum of Solace with Mark Ronson.
It's doing the same to me now as the orchestra gradually amplifies. Chills. Pretty damn good, really.
I apologize, Billie.
It's an inspired Bond theme.
Eon gets what they want, younger audiences in the seats and the value of Bond & Eilish fans increases many times.
Brilliant.
Adele's Skyfall is only at 2 million right now, with Sam Smith's at 1.5 million. Damn.
What's the fastest views record for YouTube? It's not something I typically keep up with, but am curious to see how this compares to others that shoot up.
Also lol at even general audiences agreeing this was good marketing haha :D
I don't hate it. I don't love it.
It's a song, that is my review.
2010s: Miley Cyrus
2020s: Billie Eilish!