I can’t help feeling that the producers missed so many opportunities in the past.

In the end though, Billie did an okay job, but didn’t really do much damage. I was hoping for something characteristically edgy. Bond’s mission (number 25) was of course delayed (four times) by COVID19 (which sounds like a global criminal network that Bond should take on, except it is so bad, even he can do nothing about it).Īnd it was Billie Eilish on the theme, not, as rumoured earlier, Dua Lipa. Was it not commercial enough?) and was swapped out for Smith’s rather flimsy ‘Writing On The Wall’.Īnd so, No Time To Die, which was due for release in the spring of 2020, is finally in cinemas, or movie theatres - whatever they are called now. I’ve voted for Radiohead in the past, and as it turned out, their theme for Spectre didn’t pass muster (mmm. Of course, you can feel like an armchair football manager with something like this - it’s probably a lot harder than it looks. Even then, was Skyfall a Bond classic in the mould of Moonraker or Diamonds Are Forever? I’m just not sure.

Out of the past say, seven films (since Goldeneye) there has been only one great song: Skyfall, by Adele. I can’t help feeling that the more recent shift in policy by the film producers, to go with the artist of the moment, has resulted in rather forgettable themes by the likes of Sam Smith, Jack White and Chris Cornell (RIP god rest his soul). I mean, these slots are an opportunity to make songs part of cinematic and cultural history. I’ve often found myself slightly disappointed by the choices and the execution though. Like most people, I love a good Bond film, and a good Bond theme to go with it.

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