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Keys on ‘Another Way to Die.’ ‘But that’s why I’m involved creatively with music — for challenges like this. That’s what I live for.’
The collaboration — the first duct in Bond
soundtrack history — sounds like the kind of thing MTV would dream up for the finale of
their annual awards bash, probably with fireworks going off somewhere. It should be terrible. But virtually everything Jack White touches turns to gold, which is partly why the folks at Bond HQ approached him to write this
song -— that is. after they finally realised Amy Winehouse probably wouldn’t be able to stand up for long enough to record her vocal to go with Mark Ronson’s backing track. 'lhey can’t afford any more risks. or another flop. Thankfully, ‘Another Way to Die‘ is the best Bond theme in years, taking all the elements fans identify with but updating it in a way that isn’t crass, or cheesy. or a pale
pastiche of previous efforts. The strings swell slowly in the verse. The brass is lazy in all the right places. with sharp. fast-paced stabs in the chorus a la John Barry. Keys’ piano pan is dark and theatrical. and the guitar has that buzzy, half- strangled sound that’s all over the last White Stripes and Raconteurs albums.
()07 himself. Daniel Craig, has said of the film: ‘l’m really happy with the style of this movie. I think we’ve nodded back to the old ones and some of the old Bond ideas, but we’ve made an incredible individual movie.’ And White was keen to channel that sentiment in the music.
‘l’m excited to be part of this time period of Bond,’ said White. ‘I think Daniel Craig is the most exciting thing to happen to this period of film. and he’s bringing something very fresh to it.
Bond composer David Amold has said of the latest Bond incamation. ‘lt’s got a kind of dirty. ugly. but very kind of sexy feel to it.’ It’s also sinister. because White has written it to fit in with
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