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Of all the ingredients that make a Bond film and of all the new bits of build up I look forward to, the title song and artist is very low down for me. Honestly I couldn't give a toss who gets it.
If it's an artist or song that I like, great, that's a bonus. If it's not, meh, it contributes only about 2 minutes of the whole watching experience, if it's shit I fast forward past it on the DVD
re-watches (don't I Sam smith) and I never have to listen to the song ever again if I don't want to.
If EON choose an on trend artist to appeal to a newer demographic and in the process that helps to promote the film then that's fantastic. But they don't need to rely on that to hook me so I just don't care who sings the song. I think I've felt this way since the title and score became very different entities after The John Barry era. When he had a huge involvement in both I felt differently towards this part of the experience.
(To be clear I'm only talking about title song, not the film's score, that's a different matter)
Elvis was the devil incarnate, with his hips and black sounding voice, let us not forget.
Anyway. Looked up Billie Eilish. Her music isn't my cup of tea. But Billie does have something about her. With the right song she could do well. Certainly an unusual choice.
What I would ideally want from Eilish's song, would be a hummable melody, that is woven into the score effectively and with emotion.
Lmao. Brilliant. But seriously, every generation (generally speaking) turns their nose up at the arts, culture, music and general worldview of the generation behind them. That being said, everyone is entitled to their own taste—except those that don’t like Bond :-)—but I believe that art has objective and universal qualities. I think it’s important that we are all aware of our own biases, and work to be more inquisitive and open. You don’t have to sacrifice personal taste when recognizing that the taste of others also has merit.
The tragedy is that the industry pushes forth this type of “self-expression” in these young kids who are often too young to know any better. Because it’s edgy and provocative and sells!!! And it’s all about the buck at the end of the day. Never mind the internal damage it causes to these young “artists”.
You're like that preacher guy that ranted about rock music in FOOTLOOSE, going on about how it will bring about moral decay, end times blah blah blah.
Seriously? You're upset over stuff like nose and lip rings?
The irony is that as James Bond fans we should all have an appreciation for the prurient, macabre and provocative.
"The target of my books lies somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh."
- Ian Fleming
It’s easy to mock but deep down inside you know it’s unfortunate what little kids are exposed to these days.
I never said you were. This also proves that you have problem in understanding what you read.
Who should I blame? Lucifer? A fictional character from a fantasy book?
And who were these things invented by? Definitely not by today's kids. Today's kids are what previous generations' outcome. So yes, I will always blame previous generations for current generation's state.
That, I agree with. But living in Plato's cavern and pretending that everything is okay by censoring everything that is scary, sad or provocative will help no one.
I blame bad parenting, not pop tunes.
I wouldn't go Banko on that
I hope this is a collaboration, with Zimmer perhaps, that allows her to stretch and avoid her, to my sensibilities, more depressive tendencies.
Learn to use Google instead of calling names. As you do that, explain me why your almighty and benevolent God hasn't stopped Lucifer if either of them does indeed exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible
Lmao. Every fictional work has an author. How can a fictional work exist without one? They do not grow on trees as far as I know.
Open your eyes and look at the beauty of the Earth and its intricacies and then tell me it’s all just one big accident.
“They have eyes, yet do not see” - Psalm 135:16
I’ll just leave it at that. As you were...
Back on topic, I came across this track of Eilish’s on Spotify and felt it had a good poppy vibe for a NTTD theme. She’s a versatile singer, and I hope people don’t discount her after listening to only one or two songs.
@ringfire211
We are NOT having this discussion ANYWHERE on these boards! We are NOT going to discuss religion. We tried that before until it proved too sensitive a topic for some to handle. If you can't take any criticism, as clearly you can't, then it's wisest to just leave it at that. So please take your god, bible, demons and whatnot someplace where people care about those things, but not here.
Billie Eilish singing about "those things" is just another teen pop star in a very long tradition. This is not the first generation of singers going "dark" in that way. Death metal from the '80s and '90 hasn't destroyed our lives and neither will it destroy the lives of younglings today. If you don't like her, fine. If her music isn't your taste of music, fine. But neither she nor her music can take any blame whatsoever for teen suicides or the increase in the number of people who abandon traditional religion in favour of a more modern kind, or none at all. And the fact that this has until now been her thing doesn't necessarily mean she'll bring it to the Bond film. She is a singer, after all, and she's in this to make money. She's not the devil's maiden.
Now here's a radical idea. Let's discuss Bond related things on a Bond related forum and have fun, not nastiness toward one another.
I think she will do well, she certainly has an edge. Probably not my first pick. I would have liked Dua Lipa instead, her smooth and distinct voice in an epic Bassey type of song, yes please. We'll have to wait and judge until the track is released. Zimmer is a dream come true, basically.
"That's it? Anybody want to discuss the title song now?"
It’ll be interesting to see if they use the film title or go with an original song title. My random guess is an original title, but as to what it would be I have no idea. Hopefully something Bondian!