New bond theme released

September 21, 2008

It’s been played on the radio all over the world and now it’s been put on the net for all to hear after a quick Google search. The new Bond theme, ‘Another Way To Die’ by Jack White and Alicia Keys really moves away from the traditional tempo although it does sound in parts like other things, for example the beginning of the song is sounds like a more jazzed up version of the beginning music for Dragnet (My names Joe Friday, and I wear a badge duh-dan-duh-duh) and the middle is like it comes from the score for Live and Let Die.

That said the song really hasn’t been looked upon favorably in the UK on site’s like Digitalspy.co.uk where feeling that the Bond franchise should remain British as long as possible is as strong as ever. The decision that Americans would write, sing and record the song has not gone down well. Especially since the XXX franchise was seen as American cinemas way of attempting to replace Bond just like Casino Royale was the Bond makers way of trying to cash in on the Bourne franchise. Considering this time the song didn’t even touch UK shores until it was finished as it was recorded in Nashville takes the cake where most brits are concerned. Overall the song does quite well in my opinion, the overall tone is a bit different than before with the first half and middle being acceptable for a bond theme. After that though the end just turns to junk with random notes thrown in to keep the thing going and extend the track’s length. The Casino Royale theme was much better.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a130576/is-jack-and-alicias-bond-theme-any-good.html