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Billie Eilish - No Time to Die


The official theme song just dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB_S2qFh5lU

I don't like it. I can barely understand the words.

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Yeah, I don't think anyone is going to remember this one in a few years.

It's like that Sam Smith one... I cannot remember a single bit of that song.

And yet it won an Oscar, I read, so whadda I know?

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Definitely of flavor of the month.

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The Oscars have always been the flavour of the month awards. The awards are handed out based on whatever agenda mainstream liberals in the media happen to be pushing that particular year.

"Diversity is great and all white people are racist" = Crash wins Best Picture
"Black people are still slaves in America today and they never win Oscars" = 12 Years a Slave Wins Best Picture
"Homosexuality and Islam are great" = Moonlight wins Best Picture
"Barack and Michelle Obama have no filmmaking experience but we need to keep them relevant" = American Factory wins Best Documentary
"Our own film industry sucks and we want to look trendy by letting a foreign film in a foreign language win Best Picture" = Parasite wins Best Picture

I could go on.

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Winning an Oscar is almost an insult at this point. Some good films/songs/actors/etc. get nominated for these awards, but the nominees are almost always overwhelmingly bad.

Music has always been a great part of these Bond films, and yet John Barry has never won an Oscar for best original score and some of the other great title songs never won for original song. It's embarrassing that out of all the great music over nearly 60 years, only the overrated Adele song and the horrendous Sam Smith song have won an Oscar for this series. Smith won for no other reason than he is a homosexual. Let's be clear about that. Adele's song was at least commercially successful and very popular, but I still don't think it was deserving of any awards.

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I am not a fan of it either BUT I will not give my final evaluation on it until I see on the screen with the credits behind it.

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Hire Billie Eilish, get a Billie Eilish song. Sounds like they are going to kill Bond.

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Jeebus. 20 mill views? Well that's business then, isn't it.

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I couldn't dislike this video more.
Its everything wrong with the American system.

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Okay, I initially didn't think much of this, but I've listened to it a bunch times more, and it has grown on me.

BE has a you-love-it-or-you-hate-it voice so that may be what's putting some people off. For this song, it definitely adds a very melancholy, intimate tone. I'd be curious to hear what a more powerful vocalist could do with this.

I still don't think it will win a top spot in the list of great Bond themes, but, as a minimum, it's better than that awful Madonna tune.

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The Pretty Reckless - 25

https://youtu.be/8b-BiK-GX44

Unofficial James Bond theme?

The new song by The Pretty Reckless seems to be a James Bond tribute, it dropped today so I don't know yet if it’s officially tied to the movie or not, I prefer it over the Billie Eilish song!

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Off topic a bit.

Cover of Bad Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnDQqw6qQbI

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