UPDATE: We ran this last week and speculation has indeed born out. Adele! Skyfall! YES!
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James Bond theme songs have run the gamut from the classic (Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger”) to the gawd-awful (Madonna’s “Die Another Day”), but “” target=”_blank”>rumour has it” that British nouveau-soul-pop diva and winner of ALL teh Grammies in 2011 Adele might be singing the theme for the upcoming Skyfall.
British tabloid The Sun is reporting that Adele has been seen at Abbey Road studios, where the score for Skyfall is currently being recorded. Categorize this under news that “If it isn’t true, it should be…” because I can literally think of no better person to record a Bond song than Adele.
First, I kind of have a crush on her. Plus, I’ve always had a thing for the more classic take on the Bond themes sung by kind of breathy females (Shirley Bassey, Sheryl Crow, Tina Turner, Shirley Manson). And, to be fair, we have had two relatively mediocre Bond themes for the last two Daniel Craig films. And as good of a film as Skyfall appears to be, this could finally be a song worthy of the work Craig has been doing. (Yes, QoS wasn’t as good, but I think Casino Royale could be argued as the best Bond film of all time. Too bad it had to be paired with the second-worst Chris Cornell sung tune ever to grace a movie soundtrack. And,yes, I’m talking about “Live to Rise” which remains the only flaw in Avengers)
Anyway, what if it’s not true? If not Adele, then who? Frankly, the only other people I can think worthy are Radiohead or maybe The Black Keys.
Beyond that, what do you think of Bond Themes? Bests? Worsts? I’ve had long conversations with Bond fans of all stripes that Live and Let Die is both the greatest and the most overrated Bond theme ever. There’s The Living Daylights and View to a Kill if we want to go all 80’s style. Can we all agree Madonna was the worst, just as Die Another Day is easily the worst Bond film of all time? What say you robots?