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That was me being nice trust me when I say my actual opinion my first draft of the post was way worse
This will be huge in the charts.
Bond is too strong of a brand that any song could influence the box office to that degree. And we have to remember that many will actually like the song.
Getting good reviews on iTunes at least. That's not a bad measure of the average moviegoer. Bond fans will no doubt be more divided.
Im just saying that a great song, has good marketing value
Time was a shock. I guess it must be growing on me. :)
I know someone who did. Needless to say they weren't someone I wanted to hang around with after that, though.
All joking aside though, the song was a massive element to the film's success. If you say "Skyfall" to the average movie goer the song is probably the first or second thing that will pop into their head.
Lots of factors led SF to make what it did. Kind of a convergence of elements. I agree a song can help or hurt, but in terms of the reasons millions go to see a particular film, I doubt the title song
is the highest thing on their list.
At the time MR was the highest grossing Bond til GE but it's song was not the highest charting of the series. But since it was Barry it was still memorable.
I had serious misgivings and fears where this was going when Sam Smith was announced as for me his voice and style doesn't sit at all with the Bond brand. It's it a bit tragic and sad to hear some justifying the song as being OK and resonating better over the film title sequence by Kleinman really as it has been set up with the very fact SS was chosen in the first place to be a standalone smash separately trading on his popularity alone. It sounds like social media doesn't view it as that and it seems it's not sitting any better wearing a Bond hat integrated into SP either.
It does seem Smith is more Whining on the floor than Writing on the wall though.
A poor bit of strategy on BB and SM's part? I will patiently await the date and see how I feel about the full package. Back in the day, films were seen/heard as one entity with just a poster and foyer standee and the whole net inquisition and desire to devour every last micro nuance is the poorer for it now and the reason I want to remain clear and untainted by spoilers etc as I can.
Personally I believe it's the best way to approach this. A good song shouldn't be one you need to play on repeat 10 times almost in a bid to force it into acceptance. CR's YKMN and SF's Adele both hit me like a thunderbolt the second I saw the superb opening sequences which was so powerful for me and why I truly adore them and can listen repeatedly time and time again no matter what I may be doing and in any mood.
I'll be late in proceeding to pitch in here with thoughts but time will tell.
The polar opposite for me, I'm afraid. The orchastrated intro kind of reminds me of a slow tempo version of All of Me, the Ruth Etting song, with Daniel Bedingfield's You're Not the One tagged on. But that's probably just me. Somewhere in the world Tom Petty is hurriedly checking his own back catalogue again. But seriously, I just don't think his voice is good enough to carry the song when the music drops away and leaves him squawking for long musically isolated periods. It's ok when the orchastra returns, but it's needed through out.
I agree should been released on youtube like skyfall
Everyone keeps mentioning this as a potential Spectre song but I just can't see it myself.
Count me in.
https://youtu.be/IixJvOvdoLk
Try this, @Getafix
If you have iTunes you can listen to it for free on Apple Music. The first three months of that are free and you can stop using it whenever you want.
I really love it too... That makes just 4 of us. :-)