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Jack White ft. Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die - Official Music Video, Quantum of Solace
Yeah ....
OK, look. I've reluctantly come to terms with the idea that, no matter how profoundly radio rejects these themes recently, the Broccolis and whoever else is involved with producing Bond movies will keep trying to get music that's going to both be popular and sound like "Bond", despite the fact that the two types of music have diverged so widely in recent years. But seriously, this is kind of a hopeless mess. It's trying to be jazzy, it's trying to be Bond, it's trying to be hard rock, it's trying to be soulful, and it tries itself into a musical muddle. I get the impression that they really really don't want to go the way of "Die Another Day", which was popular but did not remotely sound like a Bond song -- apparently Madonna has enough clout to keep the Broccolis from seriously messing with her music, and honestly, I'm not sure what you could do to that to make it sound more Bond-like without destroying it. It has been widely reviled as the worst of the Bond themes; despite not being a dreadful song on its own, it does sound wrong for Bond.
What they really need to do is to make the commitment to moving to a completely different sound for the Bond themes. A very hard, edgy rock song would actually be entirely in character for Craig's Bond, who has a lot more ragged, damaged edges showing than any Bond to date. Dump the violins and the rest of the orchestra, and just go with the rock sound.
I have to admit, I do wonder what would have happened had Amy Winehouse not drugged herself out of the theme song. She certainly couldn't have carried off this song; I'm sure that whatever she was going to do would have been much more period-sounding and backward looking, which probably really isn't the direction they should be looking, musically speaking.
All that said, I would like to point out the following: the title of the new song would be a WAY better title for the film than "Quantum of Solace". I get that it's a title actually associated with the Bond short stories, I understand that they wanted to maintain the connection. Nonetheless. Title sucks, and not in the happy fun way, neither.
Yeah ....
OK, look. I've reluctantly come to terms with the idea that, no matter how profoundly radio rejects these themes recently, the Broccolis and whoever else is involved with producing Bond movies will keep trying to get music that's going to both be popular and sound like "Bond", despite the fact that the two types of music have diverged so widely in recent years. But seriously, this is kind of a hopeless mess. It's trying to be jazzy, it's trying to be Bond, it's trying to be hard rock, it's trying to be soulful, and it tries itself into a musical muddle. I get the impression that they really really don't want to go the way of "Die Another Day", which was popular but did not remotely sound like a Bond song -- apparently Madonna has enough clout to keep the Broccolis from seriously messing with her music, and honestly, I'm not sure what you could do to that to make it sound more Bond-like without destroying it. It has been widely reviled as the worst of the Bond themes; despite not being a dreadful song on its own, it does sound wrong for Bond.
What they really need to do is to make the commitment to moving to a completely different sound for the Bond themes. A very hard, edgy rock song would actually be entirely in character for Craig's Bond, who has a lot more ragged, damaged edges showing than any Bond to date. Dump the violins and the rest of the orchestra, and just go with the rock sound.
I have to admit, I do wonder what would have happened had Amy Winehouse not drugged herself out of the theme song. She certainly couldn't have carried off this song; I'm sure that whatever she was going to do would have been much more period-sounding and backward looking, which probably really isn't the direction they should be looking, musically speaking.
All that said, I would like to point out the following: the title of the new song would be a WAY better title for the film than "Quantum of Solace". I get that it's a title actually associated with the Bond short stories, I understand that they wanted to maintain the connection. Nonetheless. Title sucks, and not in the happy fun way, neither.