[HOST] Fresh off a huge 2020 Grammys, Billie
Eilish is back with her first original song
for a soundtrack, “No Time To Die.”
[HOST] The track was produced by Billie’s
brother FINNEAS along with Stephen Lipson,
and serves as the theme song for the upcoming
James Bond film of the same name.
[HOST] The song dropped just in time for Valentine’s
Day, and on her verses Billie croons about
a love that came undone.
[HOST] The song was first announced by Billie
back in January, and she was very excited
to be a part of it, saying quote:
[HOST] Following the initial announcement,
Billie teased the track on Instagram, and
dropped it shortly after.
The James Bond theme songs are as iconic as
the movies themselves, going back to the opening
credits of the Bond flick, 1962’s ‘Dr.
No.’
[HOST] Created by composer Monty Norman, he
explained to the BBC in 2012 that his idea
was for the song to embody the essence of
Sean Connery’s 007.
MONTY: His sexiness, his mystery, his ruthlessness,
it’s all there in a few notes.
BOND: Goodnight
LADY: Goodnight, Mr. Bond.
[HOST] Norman’s score can be heard at one
point or another in every Bond movie and each
song is eponymously named after its flick.
[HOST] As the youngest artist to ever sing
the theme, Billie Eilish walks in the path
of legends like Shirley Bassey’s 1971 take
“Diamonds Are Forever.”
[HOST] Keen ears will notice that this song
was sampled by Chicago’s Kanye West on 2005’s
“Diamonds From Sierra Leone.”
[HOST] Beatle Paul McCartney & The Wings 1973
cut, “Live And Let Die,” also the debut
of Roger Moore’s Bond.
[HOST] Fresh off of an Academy Award performance,
if Billie has hopes for a gold statue of her
own, doing the Bond theme gives her a decent
shot.
[HOST] The last two theme songs both won Oscars
- Adele’s 2012’s cut, "Skyfall..."
[HOST] And Sam Smith’s “Writings on the
Wall” in 2015.
[HOST] We’ll have to wait and see - but
for now the 25th James Bond instalment, ‘No
Time To Die,’ will be a farewell to Daniel
Craig's 007, and drops in April 2020.
[HOST] If you’d like to find out more about
"No Time To Die," check out the song page
on Genius.com. I’m Jacques Morel with Genius News,
bringing you the meaning and the knowledge
behind the music.
Peace!
