Deborah Lipp

You want to know what I think of Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name“? Of course you do.

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Wha..? Sorry…fell asleep.

It’s bland and boring and who the hell cares? Seriously, if they’re going Startle The World! with their Bold New Choice! for a Different! Kind! of Bond Song! then they need to keep us awake.

I hear people saying, hey, they’ve changed direction, it’s not Shirley Bassey. I agree it has been time for a change. For a while, the trend was towards attempting to replicate the success of Nobody Does It Better, the 80s gave us two rockers and some mildly pleasant love themes. But the 90s songs were all old-school belting.

So I, like many Bond fans, was hoping for a male lead singer, something new and edgy. (I had my heart set on Counting Crows, and thought after the Oscar nomination, they had a real chance.) Madonna’s song for the last movie was exactly right (except for the male part). It was a total direction change, it startled (and sometimes pissed off) the fans, and it was a huge hit.

So Chris Cornell is announced, and that sounds promising, doesn’t it? A non-traditional choice, and then there’s all this chatter about being edgy and new.

And what we get is a bland melody with a chorus that sounds like it was composed by committee. At least nothing will distract me from paying attention to the visual title design.