Quantum of Solace theme song with Jack White and Alicia Keys
Hey filmmakers: Want to guarantee that your movie feels dated by the time the BluRay comes out? Give the task of writing your theme song to whoever yesterday’s taste du jour was, regardless of whether or not their sound works with the tone of the film. See William Friedkin’s To Live in Die in L.A. and grok the Wang Chung score to see what I’m laying down. Or just give this song from Quantum of Solace a listen.
Don’t get me wrong, Alicia Keys’ voice is the sex, and she’s one of the few mainstream name-recognizable music artists out there worth a shit. And though I dig Jack White quite a bit (especially sans his Down Syndrome incest wife/sister/drummer), while his nasal tenor crooning would befit a Guy Richie post-modern take on the spy genre, I fear it’ll be as out of place as a Tapout tee-shirt, flip-flops and camo-cargo shorts on a Bolivian donkey during the silhouettes-of-naked-ladies opening credit sequence of a James Bond film. It’s too bad too, because this song falls just short of being awesome thanks to its kitchen sink approach. The piano line is awesome, Jack White’s 60’s garage fuzz guitar is awesome, and when Alicia’s singing by herself it’s right on the money. But Jack’s voice is grating and out of place, and the horn blasts are there just because, reminding me a bit of “Apple Pie” by one-hit-wonder funk-metalers’ White Trash.
(”walking through the ghetto on a Sunday afternoo-oon!” Like those hair-farmers would’ve made it fifteen mintues in the ghetto without getting ass-raped).
It’s a shame Amy Winehouse lost the gig due to her being a gangrenous zombie crack whore. While I take great joy in ridiculing her public persona, as a potential singer of James Bond themes she was a strong choice – at least a helluva lot better than Chris “Pissing on my Legacy” Cornell. Couldn’t the producers have lured her into the studio with some crystal meth, Jack Daniels and human brains? “Braaaaaaaaiiins” might be the only lyric she’d be capable of singing, but it’d sound like something straight out of a 1960s spy movie!
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