SPECTRE theme song announced 'Writings on The Wall' by Sam Smith

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Tadaima

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Guys, I think he is just trolling you with the "written in 20 minutes" thing.

But by saying it, I think it means one of two things. Either he's writing it off as unimportant (not pleased with the song), or he's bragging about how he can write his best work in no time at all so that his fans will think he is even more of a genius.
 

Chichikov

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Does Skyfall not count or something?
From Goldfinger (can't decide if From Russia with Love count here or not) to Die Another Day there were 17 movies over 4 decades, only 3 movies didn't have their song named after the movie.

In the Daniel Craig era, Skyfall is the exception to the rule, so yeah, I think there's definitely a trend here.

And let maybe expand a bit on this issue here, like, I don't think it's the end of the world or anything, but I think that James Bond mostly work because of tradition, and yeah, I think it's kinda cool to having these songs that immediately evoke memory of the movie, even if it's on the nose.
Now yeah, you can break with those traditions if it can improve your movie (I think the Craig Bonds have played with it, sometime successfully sometime not) but really, let's not act like we're dealing with lyrical masterpieces that we can't work the name of the movie into them.
 

Replicant

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Just glad it's not Ellie Goulding. That would have been a travesty.

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Vilam

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It's weird seeing his youtube videos with hundreds of million views and having the music be totally foreign to me. Stay With Me is the only one I recognized once I heard it. Oh well, hope he makes a good song... I'm just glad it wasn't Adele.
 
Never heard of him...


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Seriously people don't know who Sam Smith is? He's been huge the last few years

Stay With Me: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-5XG-DbAA

Money on My Mind: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0G9T5Bnjlc

Latch: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93ASUImTedo


Never heard any of these songs either... And his voice doesn't sound particularly suited for a grand Bond theme.

Why him, if they could have so many other artists with more international appeal.
 
Was there a rumor that Goulding was supposed to make a song for a 007 movie?

P.S. I liked Adele's Bond song.
As a matter of fact, it was Sam Smith who hinted it might be Ellie when he was asked if he would be doing the theme song. Now it was him after all.
Yeah. Teasing Ellie kind of backfired.

I don't mind Sam Smith. He wouldn't be my first choice.
It sure did. I didn't even care about the song until Ellie was in the game.
 
I'm surprised so many people are upset about this. His music is fine and his voice is fitting. I'm sure it will be a good song.
 
I'm indifferent. Never liked any of his music or his voice but they could always do worse.

Should have gotten Leona Lewis to do it, that would have been dope.
 

Tenebrous

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Oh it's that whiny tosser that used to come on before every "Friends" episode last year. I know that'll annoy my missus, haha.
 
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