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"How do I live , how do I breathe" - this is the problem. Bond doesn't cry for attention like a 12 year old.
You are getting a bit carried away. I can throw a flipside in here which is just as possible. This song could eventually be ranked alongside the worst, at the bottom of the barrel along with AWTD, DAD and WOTW.
Especially if the film itself ends up being no good, or at least as bad as SP.
I have nothing against her at all. I just don't like the song.
Remember, he goes by "they" and "them" instead of he and him now. :))
I hoped there going to be a better audio version, looking forward to hear the song on radio. My first feeling there are stil inspyred by there real story of DC era. Again the lyrics doing his thing, very much likes on You Know My Name and Skyfall with a stil a bit writings on the wall. Stil hope Billie Eilish videoclip will bring in more Billie Eilish.
Need time / more views to grow on me, but after 6-7 times not yet. It more contuned on writings on the wall who like faster. Whyle i must say les is more and effect is possible more inportent, but mis a bit more Bond. No i don't mis screaming, because keep the litle whas what i like.
So i try not to dive to fast in to lyrics, get feeling i whant to finish of ''Fool me once, fool me twice...''
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I group those four songs together too. Good to hear someone else does the same.
I'm just going to have to get used to the idea that these latest songs are attempts to get new fans interested in Bond - even if they are terrible. At least we got YKMN and SF out of the Craig era.
Agreed. I don't think I've ever been as excited after a title sequence to watch a Bond film then following YKNM.
It's usually Bond falling for the winged dove, now with Craig's Bond he himself is the bearer of that exact quality. It's reflective in the tone of WOTW and NTTD, but I certainly prefer WOTW as a song if only for it's orchestral arrangement. I also prefer Sam Smith's voice to Eilish's wispy tone.
I agree. Musically I think it’s very good but vocally and lyrically doesn’t work. The quality of the lyrics have been brought into sharp focus by NTTD, which by comparison absolutely nails it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/eilishupdates/status/1228348244570394625
I was in the kitchen earlier making some soup and popped this on a loop while I was cooking and it just is a real emotional piece.
Billie's gentle whispered vocal at the start that some seem to object to is for me fine, while the song never builds to a Bassey like crescendo, I think she gradually increases the intensity of her performance that beautifully matches Zimmer's arrangement when it takes flight.
I really love that refrain you can see appearing in the film in no doubt different arrangements from Zimmer and his team and already something memorable and powerful about it.
I definitely think this is infinitely superior to what Smith did and although Billie's theme will have the advantage of having the composer use it throughout, this song just has much more power and real haunting quality that seems to resonate with the themes of the film.
Also Billie I think really got under skin of where Bond is when we meet him again in Matera. I think she well and truly got her remit bang on and her taste of the screenplay was a real inspiration to deliver this classy piece of work.
I also prefer this to Skyfall, this seems to have more about it to me, no it isn't complex or busy, it is quite simple but it has something that to me sounds like listening to and I haven't even seen it against the main titles.
Skyfall never really blew me away and it took the main titles to appreciate what it was doing, this song is already hooked me in.
I thought about the idea that I'm not a Billie Eilish fan and had never really heard her stuff until it was announced she was getting the job.
Though a number of the artists, the golden era ones or into the 70's and beyond, I don't own much outside of what they bought to Bond, though it wasn't like I couldn't appreciate what they added to the legacy.
It is going to work sometimes and others you are just going to be horrified at the results (I know I was last time). I'm happy to give anyone the benefit of the doubt and hear what they come up with, I did last time, although I will never understand what element Smith was really zoning in on. I think he saw a little morsel of something and then amplified that much more than its actual relevance to the story.
Billie and Finneas appear to have picked up on something and from seeing the trailer having an idea of where this is going and also knowing Bond's state of mind at the end of SPECTRE that is going to be resonating theme from the get go.
The moment Smith picked up on is only present towards the end and the film never commits to it to make it feel like his lyrical narrative has any real power or genuine relevance to deserve it being the concept of the title song.
The idea that Bond has given up his life to be with this woman and then discovers something that leads him to think that it is all a lie (whether or not this is not strictly true) this is what is playing in Bond's head and using that as theme for title song the way they have done, is a very powerful and effective concept.
Mate, rock is my genre. I just think this sounds crap
Well if you don't like Cornell ( who was one of the most distinctive and powerful vocalists of the 90's and still for my money was able to nail it still even right to the end) then we can't help you I'm afraid.
If you want to discuss Cornell, here is a good place to start:
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/1509/chris-cornell-talks-casino-royale-and-bond-themes
Thank you.
So pretty much my opinion stays the same as is has been since first, and after 20th listen.
Every new listen confirmed my doubt that Billie and this song have been chosen exclusively for promotional and financial reasons. Song is nothing but mediocre, dull and utterly forgettable.
"No Time To Die" is very similar in genre to Radiohead's "Spectre", but compared to Radiohead this seems like some music school student assignment.
Mr. Kidd: “That’s most annoying.”
*YNMN and SF are amazing as well.
As I sit here, it occurs to me that I can't really remember the tune to hum it. Whereas, say, LALD . . .
I don't remember how it goes, either. I keep getting WOTW in my head instead.
Also...the final guitar chord gives us a clear link with what's gone before, right back to Dr.No. It's very dark and none the worse for that. Overall a very welcome entry in the Bond song library.