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The whole film looks and sounds great. These next 6-7 weeks are going to be tough.
Also @MakeshiftPython, forgot to answer your question earlier, the highest viewed videos in 24 hours I think range from around 28mil upwards so still quite the way to have reached that but the song has done really well anyway with the views its got :)
Crazy thing is: we don't even have a "video" yet! When that drops, the song will get re-energized.
The things I do for England.... ;)
And with drums it adds more power
Like this
My personal ranking (Craig era):
1- SF
2- YKMN
3- WOTW
4.- NTTD
5.- AWTD
Totally understand your dislike, while I am impartial, picturing that image from within the train (looking back at Bond) as Madeline leaves on board, while this song kicks in... I think it might work, atleast within the context of the film.
I hope that Kleinman doesn't go too crazy with the title sequence; We don't need the cliff notes to the entire film before it starts. He should take a more reserved approach, much like GE thru CR.
Doesn’t add anything new. Thoroughly underwhelming I’m afraid!
Also, can anyone remember how they felt about You Know My Name back before Casino Royale came out? Was that a song which got better when you saw the film? I'm asking because I feel this song could fall into that category.
I loved YNKN instantly. I can't say the same about Eilish's effort.
Never really understood the hype for this song...Firstly, YKMN is a dumb title for a reboot which is approaching the character of Bond as if it it the first time we are meant to have met him. The tragedy of Cornell's does make the song that bit more melancholic and intriguing now...
It's a little early to rank NTTD, as I haven't heard it enough or seen the title sequence. But of the Craig era it goes:
The Youtube video now has more views (14 million) than the official trailer (13 million).....just wait till the music video drops for this thing.
Billie has such an innocent and sincere quality to her voice. She sounds so honest and broken....it's a song that is both operatic and intimate. Bravo. Well done to these two.....
Hardly.
A ballad would have been wholly inappropriate to kick off Craig's era. The decision to go with the song rather than the marketing angle, meaning they weren't looking for the flavour of the month but the best combination that would deliver a tune that would signal this is a new era a new beginning and a new Bond.
I don't really think they could have done better than what Cornell delivered.
Also anyone putting WOTW over YKMN I really can't take seriously.
Cornell has an amazing voice. His cover of this song brings me close to tears. He's outstanding. He was an amazing 'outside the box' choice:
But I can't help but feel that YKMN was nothing if not 'generic' rock. It was a little bland and tasteless. Maybe I need to give it another listen, but there is something quite uninspired about it.....
It was a bold choice to go with a tougher, more bruising sound. Something more macho and iconalastic for the theme. But it was an idea on paper that was better than the execution.
On the other hand, Sam Smith has a pretty amazing voice in a different way. He's more operatic and theatrical. Men often sing butch, tough Bond themes - so to ave a song by a man singing something more yearning and vulnerable was a great change of pace. It's a proper 'Bond' theme.