What do you think of Adele's "Skyfall" theme?

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jet set willy wrote:

More importantly, who is the nice ass on your avatar?

My hips are sealed on that one....

Adele's Skyfall will debut at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles in the USA when it's updated on Thursday. It's her highest debut to date.

The British singer's first studio recording since 2011's 21 album sold 261,000 copies over 3 days of sales since its release Thursday night.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/10/10/adele-skyfall-debut-week-sales/1624883/

I gave "Skyfall" a couple of listens since Friday, and it has quite grown on me. Not top five Bond theme material, but easily the best since "GoldenEye." The orchestration is going to give a lot of viewers of Skyfall goosebumps. I got over my problems with some of Adele's diction. Her youtube video really drills home the lyrics. Some of the rhymes I think still suck, but still better than Jack White's "slick trigga finga for her majesty." I found some of Adele's singing on 21 too nasal, and thankfully here she is cool and confident. And haunting. Too bad everyone will have heard the song before going to the cinema.

GeneralGogol wrote:

I gave "Skyfall" a couple of listens since Friday, and it has quite grown on me. Not top five Bond theme material, but easily the best since "GoldenEye." The orchestration is going to give a lot of viewers of Skyfall goosebumps. I got over my problems with some of Adele's diction. Her youtube video really drills home the lyrics. Some of the rhymes I think still suck, but still better than Jack White's "slick trigga finga for her majesty." I found some of Adele's singing on 21 too nasal, and thankfully here she is cool and confident. And haunting. Too bad everyone will have heard the song before going to the cinema.

I've listened to it a lot as well. I think if the title sequence is done right it could improve my opinion of it, though I think the song is nice already. Based upon the song, I'd like to see a title sequence similar to ALL TIME HIGH, with silhouettes flying through the air, or Bond and a Bond Girl spinning or swinging. In that respect, part of Adele's song is classic. I find it more similar to ALL TIME HIGH or NOBODY DOES IT BETTER or MOONRAKER, so I"d like to see a title sequence that reflects the tempo and pace of the song.

Just briefly browsed through the new issue of People magazine at the grocery store because it had Adele on the cover. A few new pieces of information came out that I have not seen elsewhere. According to the story, Adele only recorded the song six weeks ago, which means if true, she recorded the final version sometime in late August or early September. We all know that a year ago she was on some British television show and let it drop she was recording a "theme", but refused to elaborate on what that theme was. So I'm wondering if she ever recorded that theme and if so, was it the same song as she recorded six weeks ago or were there substantial differences.

The article also said that Adele was hesitant to tackle the theme song because of the enormous expectations (which I've read elsewhere), but the quote from Barbara Broccoli was the most telling: "She was worth the wait." My questions would be: how long was the wait? And did they accept contributions from any other artists (and by "other artists" I mean: Was Muse on speed dial? Were Muse's calls to EON put through to Babs right away or was Matthew Bellamy put on hold?) Was there a real chance that Adele was going to turn them down? It doesn't seem that way. I think she was in the bag all along, and that a lot of this hesitation has been manufactured in order to tease the audience.

Nonetheless, People's latest pictures of Adele show her to be quite pregnant, and I don't imagine there's going to be any video to the song that includes Adele. It would be a bit odd for a pregnant woman to be belting out a love song to James Bond with a 10lb bun in the oven.

I'd be disappointed if there's no official video to this song...

No. 2 this week in the UK....highest ever, alongside AVTAK!!!! :bounce:

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

I'd be disappointed if there's no official video to this song...

Have to imagine there will be, given the monstrous publicity push for the film and how popular the song is already.

Good piano cover.

That's a stunning rendition, even the camera work is much better than the standard one-shot-above-the-piano.

Thanks LS :)

Is it my hearing, or is her diction bad? Only to me, it sounds like she's singing, "Let the skyfaw, when it cwumbowls..."

Ravenstone wrote:

Is it my hearing, or is her diction bad? Only to me, it sounds like she's singing, "Let the skyfaw, when it cwumbowls..."

I think its her cockney accent.

Doesn't sound like an accent, more a speech impediment. Certainly doesn't sound like any Cockneys I've met.

I really don't hear it the way you spell it.

Maybe it's something else impeding the diction then. It definitely doesn't sound like 'sky fall' or 'crumbles' to me.

Still, I try not to listen to it if I can avoid it. It doesn't get any better the more I hear it.

Ravele's right about Adele. I've never heard that kind of pronunciation in her other songs. Sounds like she's got a cold, dentist gave her an anaesthetic, or ate apple crumbawl as she sang it.

Largo's Shark wrote:

Ravele's right about Adele. I've never heard that kind of pronunciation in her other songs. Sounds like she's got a cold, dentist gave her an anaesthetic, or ate apple crumbawl as she sang it.

It sound like `Cwubawl'.

Largo's Shark wrote:

Ravele's right about Adele. I've never heard that kind of pronunciation in her other songs. Sounds like she's got a cold, dentist gave her an anaesthetic, or ate apple crumbawl as she sang it.

Ooo I've got a new nickname! I like it! :lol!:

I'm glad it's not just me. I shall stop sticking my finger in my ear and waggling it about in case it was me ;)

I didn't like Another Way To Die, but I did think it had a good main riff. The rest of the song was pants, not a hummable song at all. Sort of the same with this song - some good parts in the backing, but weak vocals and lyrics.

It's been playing constantly on the radio this week, and everyone at work is complaining about it, cus no-one can stand it.

Ravenstone wrote:

I'm glad it's not just me. I shall stop sticking my finger in my ear and waggling it about in case it was me ;)

It's not just you, but I'm hearing something slightly different. At the first chorus it sounds like she's saying "Zat Skyfall".

Let the Skyfoal
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
And face it all
At Skyfall
Zat Skyfall

Usually avoid listening to Bond songs until I see the film (God knows why), but I happened to catch this on the radio.

Nice vocals and melody. Lyrics were... eh, can't complain after slick fingering or whatever in AWTD. Passable overall. Definitely has a Bondian sound to it, though as mentioned, not overly bombastic or cliched.

jet set willy wrote:

Largo's Shark wrote:

Ravele's right about Adele. I've never heard that kind of pronunciation in her other songs. Sounds like she's got a cold, dentist gave her an anaesthetic, or ate apple crumbawl as she sang it.

It sound like `Cwubawl'.

This thread is beginning to read like the holdup sequence in TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. I keep expecting to see, "Apt natural, I have a gub."

My wife heard it once and won't listen again. And she loves damned near all of Adele's stuff (tried to get me to take her to see Adele years and years back, when she was in Portland way before she hit big.) She can't figure out why Adele doesn't really get to cut loose, or why the tone, unless it is linked to the film's content -- and even if it is, she still doesn't like it.

Ravenstone wrote:

Is it my hearing, or is her diction bad? Only to me, it sounds like she's singing, "Let the skyfaw, when it cwumbowls..."

No, I'm not a fan of her phrasing at all, in this track and others. Lord knows it took me months and a lyric search to decipher the lyrics to 'Rolling in the Deep'

Largo's Shark wrote:

Good piano cover.

This is good. Makes me think the song would probably sound a lot better live than it does in the recording.

trevanian wrote:

She can't figure out why Adele doesn't really get to cut loose, or why the tone, unless it is linked to the film's content -- and even if it is, she still doesn't like it.

I can't stand Adele, but I always thought she was a bit ballsier than this rather weak vocals.

I don't mind people singing in accents, but I can't stand bad diction, lazy phrasing, and poor breath control. One of the worst was that Martine McCutcheon bird with her 'this is mah mo-ment, this is mah per-fek - mo-ment - wiv ooo...'.

Oh and the Coors and their complete inability to pronounce the letter 'r'. Sounds like they're mimicking Frank Muir.

And I hate it when the word is split so they can snatch a breath. Sometimes it's done for effect, rather like staccato phrasing, but most of the time, it's lazy singing and poor breath control.