Saturday, December 21, 2024

Revival: Billie Eilish Debuts New Video for James Bond Song “No Time to Die,” Eight Months After Its Release

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Billie Eilish’s theme song for “No Time to Die” was released in February, the thinking was the James Bond movie was coming in April. Well, that didn’t happen. The song got 57,000 paid downloads, but a total of 738,000 copies counting streaming. Now it’s back, with a video featuring Daniel Craig and friends. Will the song come back on the charts? It’s no “Live and Let Die,” that’s for sure. But it looks good here. The movie arrives November 20th wherever theaters are open.

The video was directed by Daniel Kleinman.The song is out via Darkroom/Interscope Records and was produced by Billie’s brother; fellow multi Grammy Award winning Finneas alongside Stephen Lipson, with orchestral arrangements by Hans Zimmer and Matt Dunkley, and guitar from Johnny Marr. At 18, Eilish is officially the youngest artist in history to both write and record a James Bond theme song.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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