The song was actually rewritten when Madonna was brought in for the soundtrack, as it had been lying around in her demos folder in some form as a song all about the death of ego, which explains why it had remained in her vault considering her ego is alive and well. Parts skip and repeat and crash into other parts inelegantly Madonna's voice is chopped and screwed beyond recognition at several times, and it's generally pretty emblematic of your usual action movie. It's like a song that's been frozen in mid-collapse. Anyone commissioning Madonna with an exact remit must know that she's going to buck that remit in any way possible, and in terms of something that was bold and attention-grabbing, I'm not really sure it gets any more fit for purposes than 'Die Another Day', which is glitchy, ferocious, dissonant, and. served them a wee bit of techno on a fucking platter for their nerves, I guess.Īnecdotally, I even remember 'Die Another Day' being panned in my general life when it first came out and. She literally said, 'they're getting techno' and. Madonna in the midst of the sessions for what would eventually become American Life at the time, and when quizzed on the song after release, she admitted to being a bit of a contrarian who didn't want to do a bog standard Bond theme - orchestral, grand, sweeping, perfect background music for silhouettes of naked hourglass-shaped women diving into martini glasses while Pierce Brosnan smoulders behind them, etc. And, well, do you know anyone who makes a bigger splash than Madonna? I don't fucking think so. Apparently it was after this relatively low-key choice (although the song is a jam if I remember correctly) that film studio MGM wanted a bigger artist to do the theme for the next film. Garbage were another act to tackle the theme, doing 'The World Is Not Enough' for, well, you can guess. Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Duran Duran, Adele, Carly Simon, Sheryl Crow, and in recent years Sam Smith and even Billie Eilish, who released her Bond theme earlier this year when it still seemed the film was going to make it to theatres at the start of 2020. Now, James Bond theme songs have a pretty illustrious, varied history across the decades. Which one will leave first, I wonder?Īs we all (should) know, 'Die Another Day' was the chosen song for the James Bond film of the same name. 'Die Another Day' leaving means that, in what should surprise nobody, 'Nothing Fails' succeeds in being the top track from American Life yet again, joining 'Vogue' and 'God Control' as being the only tracks remaining from their parent albums. HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 48 ( Honeychurch Ahmadzaï Raquel French Down Suite Drunk FICTION Lange Chocolat Life SCORE: 4.5 x 2 ( Maknae)įunny how we've eliminated a collective $16M of video budget today with the two songs that have left.

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