Not all Bond songs are huge hits, but most are. So is there an art to writing a moneyspinning, high-exposure Bond theme? “Adele stayed the right side of it, but Sam Smith fell over with Writing’s on the Wall [reportedly written in 20 minutes], a parody of a Bond theme. They’re the women: Bond is a boyGreen observes that the Bond films began by selling us “a fantasy of male potency, where the man ‘always runs while others walk’, courtesy of Tom Jones’ Thunderball [1965]. Haworth argues that for all the genre’s problematic elements, Bond films aren’t alone in reflecting the era they are made.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2020 15:11 UTC