I heard today Madonna’s theme song to the new James Bond film, Die Another Day<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It’s utter crap.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure where to begin in describing how truly terrible a song this is. It’s not even a song<\/i>. It’s just some sort of electronic syncopated rhythm with Madonna chanting over and over again, her voice raised to a bizarrely high pitch, “Die. Another. Day.”<\/p>\n
Maybe a bad theme song is a good sign. Look at Live and Let Die<\/i>. Paul McCartney turned out one of his best post-Beatles songs for that film, but the film itself was total rubbish. Or A View to a Kill<\/i>. The movie is by far the nadir of the Bond film series, yet it has a killer Duran Duran theme song. See? Great theme song, sucky Bond film.<\/p>\n
While I have no difficulty remembering the music from the older Bond films, I can’t remember the music for any of Pierce Brosnan’s films. Tina Turner did the theme for Goldeneye<\/i>, but I can’t remember it. Sheryl Crow did Tomorrow Never Dies<\/i>, and that was totally forgettable. Was it Garbage that did the theme for The World Is Not Enough<\/i>? Damned if I know, such was the impression the theme make upon me. Yet when I saw a commercial the other day on television for some random product, possibly film, I knew where the music came from–it was the love theme from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service<\/i>, “We Have All the Time in the World.”<\/p>\n
Madonna has churned out another forgettable theme song for Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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