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New Bond song singer revealed

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Turns out it’s Sam Smith. Sam said he was very excited to be chosen and wrote the song in 20 minutes. (I remain uninspired).

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  2. I saw Sam Smith on Saturday night on a festival stage beneath the headliners, blur. I felt very, very old. He was ferociously earnest, the crowd, particularly young women, were really into it, and the whole thing felt about as spontaneous as trooping the colour. He announced at one point “I wrote my album because I was in love with someone who didn’t love me back, and there weren’t many albums about that” which made me wonder if he had ever heard any music ever. Then he ended with the Tom Petty song.

    • I’m a bit jealous. His album was all over the place when it came out and I wondered why I’d never heard of him – normally when something is that hyped, at least I’ve normally seen an article or two about the artist, but in this case, nothing. So I fired up Spotify with an entirely open mind and had a listen. It’s awful. I think I made it through 6 or 7 songs before I could take no more. My wife came in the room while it was on and asked what on earth it was too. I hope you now feel guilty about being unsullied by the awful caterwauling of very very derivative 6 form songs. Am I being Petty?

  5. Just think of the great number of established and or left field artists who could do do something really exciting with this. A common theme on this ‘ere blog over the years has been who we would like to see ‘sing the theme toon’ and it’s always worth another spin.

    Personally I would love to see Bjork give it a go. Something along the lines of Bachelorette, or this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiHZ35TPfM

    • Rialto! Louis Eliot’s Wiki page is a treat. I doubt we’ve ever had a posher indie star.

      “He is the son of Jacquetta St Germans (née Lampson) and Peregrine Nicholas Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans, founder of The Elephant Fayre. “

      • He’s well worth checking out live. I saw him a few years ago at Bush Hall supporting Harper Simon. Very enjoyable even though I didn’t know any of the songs and I don’t think he even did any of Rialto’s “hit”.

  8. I loved La La La which he recorded with Naughty Boy. I also felt it was refreshing to see such an unusual-looking popstar, but his ‘team’ seem to be in the process of ironing that out.

      • Or a scene where Bond drives an open top Aston Martin through the Swiss Alps on a hot summer’s day, an unlit Morland in his mouth and with a gorgeous brunette in the passenger seat, cooling wind blowing through her lustrous hair.

        Alternatively, if the budget is low

        Or a scene where Bond walks into his local Martin’s newsagents in Swiss Cottage on a hot summer’s day to buy 20 Pall Mall from a gormless blonde at the cash till, cooling wind from a cheap fan blowing her lacklustre hair all over the shop.

  17. He’s a Big Chart Act. Since the dawn of time Bond themes have been sung by Big Chart Acts. It just is the way it is. Put the single out, get ver kids interested in the 53 (summat like that) years old franchise all over again. Cross generational appeal / bums on seats / iTunes downloads innit? I bet your granddads didn’t rate Tom Jones too highly.

  21. Goodness gracious, what were they thinking?

    Choosing a winner of multiple Grammy awards, who has sold millions of records in all major global markets, whose voice has been lauded by artists across many musical genres?

    It just doesn’t make sense does it?

    Don’t the producers of the film realise that 2 members of the afterword community claim never to have heard of someone who’s had Number 1 singles for the last 3 years, who had the second-biggest selling album of last year, and whose personal life has been discussed at length in both tabloid and more serious newspapers?

    Don’t they realise that some people on the afterword community are a bit sniffy about his output?

    It’s absolute madness.

  22. I thought Sam Smith’s was a brewery who still offered relatively cheap beer in Central London.

    The girl on ‘Strictly’ on Saturday (sudden realisation: ‘bleedin’ hell, I was watching ‘Strictly’ on Saturday!!!!!!’) was introduced as having had five (FIVE) number ones.

    Like Wayne Rooney, it’s all a case of ‘when?’.

  27. INT; The Afterword Bond Theme Jury Room

    Old Scrotum, The Wrinkled Retainer : Sirs, the Bond people have called to ask for a a new feem tune

    (COBWEBS DISPLACED, DUST CIRCULATES THROUGH THE AIR)

    Old C**T: Are the Steely Dan available?
    Old C**T 2: I understand Richard Thompson had a hit record recently?
    Old C**T 3: Van Morrison! Van Morrison! Van Morrison! Van Morrison!

    (NURSE Hannah hands out the Valium)

    Old Scrotum picks up phone while flicking through NME.Com on iPad

    OS,TWR: How about some banging grime or dubstep?……Oh some bloke has taken 20 minutes out of his day to write something? Oh that’ll do then

    OLD C**t 1: I still say we should give Nick Drake a call

  28. What I find odd is the pride with which Sam Smith is letting all know that it only took him 20 mins to write the new theme. Is there some sort of pride to be had there?

    Is he suggesting it just flowed out of him when he was asked to write it. that he knew exactly what he wanted. Otherwise it could seem like he just didn’t put much real thought into it.

    “only took me 20 minutes”. Is he doing a Macca, who I believe said something similar about Live And Let Die – which frankly could have taken another 5 mins to clean up that ‘ever changing world’ line or does he think it’s like completing a level on the latest PS4 release?

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