![]() ![]() ![]() It joins "Live and Let Die" and "For Your Eyes Only" as a song that plays extraordinarily well on its own terms when divorced from Bond. The parallels are all but similar, as they both start soft and smooth, before striking this prosperous high note that makes the ballad feel so grand in terms of their respective stories. When you play the two back to back, it's clear what Mendes was thinking about, and how Adele transformed it into the hit we know now. Check us out at Tags: 007, Adele, Billie Eilish, Carly Simon, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig. But in the end, she wrote something, Adele, that was remarkably specific to the picture." Daniel Craig brought us a new Bond for a new century, even as his first film in the franchise, Casino Royale, harked back to the Ian Fleming novel that introduced 007, way back in the 1950s. "Look at 'Nobody Does It Better,' which is an incredibly personal song, and you know, Carly Simon's presumably not entirely writing about Bond. In order to get her in the right frame of mind, he recommended listening to the song that kicked off "The Spy Who Loved Me:" ![]() Given how personal her songs are, he could see that the Grammy Award-winning artist was initially nervous about getting it right. In the director's commentary, Mendes couldn't say enough great things about Adele. In retrospect, now that No Time to Die his final chapter as Bondis out the door, one can say with certainty that Casino Royale is the best Bond film of Craig’s era. ![]()
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