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Thank you so much for that!
with this playing.
YOLT
TWINE
they are all in my Top 10 (the songs of course)
as WOTW is in the same category of songs I think it will end up in my Top 10 as well.
People who are analysing that song to death and puzzle over WOTW having deeper meaning or being not man enough to be a Bond song have a screw loose somewhere!
It's a song for Heaven's sake.
20 minutes?
THAT long??
Sorry, in my opinion the 'Writing's on the Wall' for this latest and hugely disappointing Bond title song.
Great. Post your thoughts next time in the appropriate thread. In case you missed it, this is an appreciation thread.
1) This is an appreciation thread.
2) He wrote THE FIRST DRAFT in 20 minutes. You really think they spent millions recording this song out of a 20 minute thought process?
My mother (65) loves that song, she even bought it on iTunes. Something she rarely does with new music, usually she only buys older stuff (or Helene Fisher for Christ's sake :)) ).
Sam Smith reminds her of Monro. I fell almost out of my seat when she told me that!
Matt Monro was one of her favourite singers along with Tom Jones and...hold on to your seats....Julio Iglesias :-&
My thoughts exactly - people take you at your own estimation but I suppose he had the stimulus of the script or something to know what to sing about as it were! ;)
It doesn't mean much anyway. i wonder how many Bond songs were written in less than that. Some of the most famous songs of all time were famously written in just a couple minutes, like Paranoid from Black Sabbath for example.
People don't know how long it takes to write a good song. Sam Smith is young and he didn't think this would create such a controversy... theres a first time for everything i guess
As for the ending, i think it fits perfect cause it leaves you guessing and wondering "what's next". so it will lead perfectly into the movie.
I am sure this was done on purpose
Yes, that were my thoughts on your comment actually, next time i'll quote you :)
As a songwriter i have to say, the first time i heard the song i did't even see the need for a more dramatic, bigger ending. it fits the song so much more to end on a haunting note like that... it fits the theme of the lyrics. it is not self contained, it is waiting for a continuation... thats why it is also not really Charts material like smith said himself. It sounds more like part of the movie score with a singer on top.
Totally agree again. To me, the ending is one of the best and most chilling parts of the song.
I look forward to hearing it when sitting in the cinema watching the credits to the movie itself.
I like Writing's. We've all heard worse ones than this. It'll for sure go well with the opening credits. You can feel that the movie probably has a mystery and dark theme to it, which is where the song was going for.
At the Grammy's and is one of the few British acts to have broken in To
America. From the looks of things he's delivered a #1 hit song to the producers.
It may not be to everyone's musical taste, but the boys done good, I can't see
how he could have delivered more,
( I posted this in another thread but thought it suited to be here) ;)
Very much agreed. I like the song!
Hopefully soon.
The more I listen to WOTW, the more I love it (and I already did on my first listen).
October 5th
I understand your reasoning perfectly @RC7. "Writing's On The Wall" isn't the typical, safe Bond song. "SkyFall" in that sense was way more 'typical'. Regarding his voice, that is actually not even the problem I have with the song (the fact that it's a 'grower' initially irritated me a bit). I actually think Sam Smith has a crisp, clear voice. He doesn't sing out of tune at all. It's merely a matter of liking his high voice. That's it. If people say he sounds like a male-to-female transsexual is ridiculous, disrespectful and even discriminating. No need to use faul language. Just saying "I like it!" or "I don't like it!" is enough!
Perhaps we should also point out that back in the 1960's every Bond song was more or less........'very new to ears'. "Goldfinger" hit the people with a bang! "You Only Live Twice" was a radical change from "GF" and "TB", in that it was a very slow-tempo, loungy, exotic ballad. Teen-star Nancy Sinatra didn't even like singing it ("I was nervous during the recording!"). Then there was "Nobody Does It Better", which was an equally radical song choice. Until that time Bond songs sounded slightly 'mysterious', something that only belongs to a Bond universe. But "Nobody Does It Better" and even "For Your Eyes Only", though very good romantic songs, didn't sound 'Bond-esque' at all. They were perhaps more suitable to drama films like "On Golden Pond"!
And then there was Madonna's "Die Another Day". Hated by many, but certainly something that we haven't heard before in a Bond film. It was the 'sound of that time'. An extension of the safe and worry-less 1990's. To a lesser extend you could say the same of "Another Way To Die". You know, I firmly dislike the song, but it WAS unique and perhaps one of the most a-melodical, hard-rock entries ever in a Bond film. "AVTAK" and "LALD" sound rather sweet and whimpy next to "AWTD".
I do however think that "Writing's On The Wall" is more 'Bond-esque' than "DAD", "AWTD" and even "YKMN". It's soft, very slow-tempo, has mysterious strings in it, and a chorus that is more romantic. In a way it reminds me of Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice", Julie Rogers' "You Only Live Twice", Matt Munro's "From Russia With Love" and Rita Coolidge's "All Time High". Songs I really like. They really de-stress me after work. They are loungy, romantic, but mysterious at the same time.
And at the same time it has this typical Sam Smith sound. There's one thing however I disagree with @RC7. I never expected a song like "SkyFall" from Adele. In the weeks leading up to the premiere of that Bond song, I made myself acquinted with Adele's discography. And that was far less 'Bond-esque' and experimental. So "SkyFall" was a more radical change for Adele. And I don't know about how she thinks of the song, but I still think as of today she isn't very comfortable in singing "SkyFall".
Sam Smith however, stays with "Writing's On The Wall" more loyal to his discography so far. And in a way, like Smith already said, the song is also linked to Smith's own experiences in life.
I can't believe the hate, ridicule and downright primitive bashing that goes on in the Spectre theme song thread.
And I was once accused of making bold and simple statements about the Craig-era.
Well here goes to show how hypocrite some people are on this site.
I think it's always best to point your finger at yourself first. I don't want to sound 'holy' really, because I also did some 'bad' things on here. But that was really out of anger. Usually.....I try to be a nice boy Jason :-).