Jack White has spoken about his 2008 James Bond theme ‘One other Manner To Die’, calling it “some of the divisive issues” he’s labored on.
The previous White Stripes musician wrote and produced the observe – additionally that includes Alicia Keys – for Quantum Of Solace, which was the twenty second movie within the Bond franchise. It reached Quantity 9 within the UK singles chart.
Talking on a current version of the Conan O’Brien Wants A Good friend podcast, White acknowledged the combined response to the collaborative music.
“It’s some of the divisive issues I’ve been part of,” the singer-songwriter defined.
“To at the present time, it’s straight throughout the board. Folks at all times say you both love otherwise you hate it. That music is… there are individuals who hate it a lot, and there are individuals who adore it a lot. Nowhere within the center; it’s so unusual.”
He continued: “Bond themes – in Britain, for instance… that’s constant espresso/breakfast dialog. Like, ‘What’s your favorite bond theme?’ It’s nearly who you might be as an individual.”
White went on to recall how Amy Winehouse had initially been set to report the theme music for Quantum Of Solace, however mentioned that he was chosen after the late star failed to fulfill the bosses’ standards.
“I received in as a result of Amy Winehouse wasn’t displaying as much as the periods or wasn’t delivering the music that they had been asking her to do,” he remembered.
“So it was [like], ‘We had been operating out of time, we’d like someone else… And I assumed, ‘Oh, this was nice, as a result of now I’m gonna get away with homicide; I’m gonna put issues on this music, they’d by no means approve of this…
“And that occurred… The music director was not down with something. He was making an attempt to persuade me to show it right into a ballad or one thing like that.”
White added: “It received fascinating, I used to be like, ‘We’re happening tour, I can’t get in there’ – figuring out full effectively I completely have time to repair it if I needed to.”
As for his favorite James Bond theme, White singled out ‘Thunderball’ by Tom Jones from the 1965 movie of the identical identify.
Again in 2008, Amy Winehouse said that her Bond track was rejected because film representatives wanted something “clean-cut and boring”.
“I do assume they may have waited a bit,” she commented on the time. “If they need a worldwide hit, I’ve all of them up right here [pointing to her head].”
‘One other Manner To Die’ seems at Quantity 14 in NME‘s rundown of the perfect James Bond theme tunes – check out the full list here.
Jack White is about to launch his fifth solo album ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ on July 22. He performed a pair of London headline exhibits this week following a secret set at Glastonbury 2022 final Sunday (June 26).
In a five-star review of the latter performance, NME wrote: “The bangers and fan favourites appear relentless – with White’s showmanship and craving to entertain channelling the spirit of that all-too-often rumoured Prince secret set that by no means was.”
