{"id":209462,"date":"2020-01-15T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1816230\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:05:30","slug":"billie-eilish-youngest-artist-to-write-perform-bond-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/15\/billie-eilish-youngest-artist-to-write-perform-bond-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Youngest Artist To Write, Perform Bond Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eilish-650x366.jpeg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">Billie Eilish wrote and produced the new 007 theme with her brother, Finneas O&#8217;Connell (via Twitter)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish will perform the title track for the 25th James Bond film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Time to Die<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 18-year-old virtuoso, who wrote and recorded the song with brother Finneas O&#8217;Connell, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/007\/status\/1217114730831237121\"  rel=\"noopener\">is the youngest artist to record a 007 theme<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initial reactions to the news of a green-haired teenager inducted into the Bond Hall of Fame\u2014alongside greats like Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Louis Armstrong, and Tina Turner\u2014have been, well, less than positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry but this is going to be TERRIBLE. I can understand she\u2019s critically acclaimed and many love her, but it\u2019s not going to be remotely \u2018Bond\u2019. Probs won\u2019t be able to understand a word of it. Bond themes are for all time, not just what\u2019s \u2018in\u2019 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wincombe Mooredge (@Adt1001) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adt1001\/status\/1217119065493397507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another reason to not watch this movie. They hire a satanist to write the score. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XK25eZ9wqU\">pic.twitter.com\/XK25eZ9wqU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NoWeatherModification (@ModificationNo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ModificationNo\/status\/1217125004363608065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also the first Bond theme by an artist who&#39;d never heard of James Bond beforehand????<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u24d1\u24d0Alvaro Rodriguez\u277d\u2776 (@BigAl_81) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigAl_81\/status\/1217121449023950851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others, meanwhile, went to bat for the singer.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Loving all these angry boomers<\/p>\n<p>You can&#39;t change the fact she&#39;s doing the title, like it or not. <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;ll probably be a banger<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Feral Shibe #savejaga (@Wise_Shibe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wise_Shibe\/status\/1217143952094175233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People who are criticising this just have zero clue how capable and talented she is. Her music is purposely styled a certain way, as is his voice. Does nobody realise that singers manipulate their voices to sound different when they sing? She can sing in multiple styles.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Craigy Boy ?\ufe0f\u200d? (@craigy_xo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craigy_xo\/status\/1217249403192467456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eilish boasts six <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billboard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hot 100 top 40 singles, including &#8220;Bad Guy,&#8221; which became her first No. 1 in the US (and still permeates global advertising).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also has eight gold and four platinum singles in the US, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, and three MTV Video Music Awards. Not to mention six Grammy nods (and the title of youngest artist ever nominated in the four main categories in the same year).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many Twitter trolls can say the same?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It feels crazy to be part of this in every way,&#8221; Eilish said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/007\/status\/1217117840576253952\"  rel=\"noopener\">tweeted by the official James Bond movie account<\/a>. &#8220;To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;m still in shock.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last two themes\u2014Adele&#8217;s &#8220;Skyfall&#8221; and Sam Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Writing&#8217;s On the Wall&#8221; (from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spectre<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)\u2014won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we&#8217;ve been dreaming about doing our entire lives,&#8221; according to Finneas O&#8217;Connell, with whom Eilish created her debut album &#8220;When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goldfinger<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live and Let Die<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise. Long live 007.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Details on the new song are scant: The Bond song is usually released in the month leading up to the film&#8217;s premiere, the BBC reported. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Time to Die<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hits theaters on April 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hans Zimmer (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Driving Miss Daisy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thelma &amp; Louise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lion King<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gladiator<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interstellar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blade Runner 2049<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and about 200 other films) will compose the film&#8217;s score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/james-bond-faces-high-tech-villain-in-no-time-to-die-trailer-1812646\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">latest instalment<\/a> features Daniel Craig in his fifth and (supposedly) final outing as the titular MI6 agent; it is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True Detective<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beasts of No Nation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maniac<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), who co-wrote the screenplay with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and the incomparable Phoebe Waller-Bridge (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fleabag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Killing Eve<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, L\u00e9a Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, and Jeffrey Wright reprise their roles, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/rami-malek-is-your-next-james-bond-villain-1784496\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Rami Malek<\/a>, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, and Craig&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knives Out<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> co-star Ana de Armas joining the cast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More on Geek.com:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/an-adidas-x-james-bond-collab-has-leaked-1815346\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Adidas x James Bond Collab Has Leaked<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/the-man-with-the-golden-liver-james-bond-definitely-has-a-drinking-problem-1765547\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Man With the Golden Liver: James Bond Definitely Has a Drinking Problem<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/channel-your-inner-billie-eilish-with-photoshop-camera-app-1809371\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Channel Your Inner Billie Eilish With Photoshop Camera App<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eilish-650x366.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>Billie Eilish wrote and produced the new 007 theme with her brother, Finneas O&#8217;Connell (via Twitter)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish will perform the title track for the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die. The 18-year-old virtuoso, who wrote and recorded the song with brother Finneas O&rsquo;Connell, is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/billie-eilish-youngest-artist-to-write-perform-bond-theme-1816230\/\">Billie Eilish Youngest Artist To Write, Perform Bond Theme<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/15\/billie-eilish-youngest-artist-to-write-perform-bond-theme\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2133,2,2047,7,240],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,504,455],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Suq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209568,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209462\/revisions\/209568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}