Billie Eilish drops James Bond theme song No Time to Die
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — With six Grammys, 13 platinum singles and one of the biggest debut albums in recent memory, Billie Eilish has already conquered the music world and has moved on to film.
After performing a unique take on the Beatles' classic 'Yesterday' at the Academy Awards last weekend, the singer has dropped the theme song to the forthcoming James Bond film No Time to Die, which comes out April 10.
The song is the second she and brother/musical collaborator Finneas have dropped since the spring release of her blockbuster debut full-length, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"
Billie Eilish has continued her trend of uber-long fingernails on the red carpet, this time teaming the black nails — each adorned with a stone — with a Chanel tracksuit and fingerless lace gloves. Getty
It includes Johnny Marr on guitar with orchestral arrangements by Hans Zimmer and Matt Dunkley. Eilish, the youngest artist ever to write and record a Bond them, will perform the song for the first time at the Brit Awards in London on February 18.
Later this year, Apple TV will release a documentary on the singer that has been nearly four years in the making. Indeed, when Variety was embedded with Eilish's fall tour for a December cover story on the singer, a video crew followed her nearly everywhere.
Billie Eilish made history with her Grammy Awards sweep. AP/AAP
Eilish — who was Variety's Hitmaker of 2019 — swept the top Grammy categories last month, becoming the youngest (and only the second) artist in history to win the big four: album of the year and pop vocal album (for When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?), record and song of the year (for 'Bad Guy') and new artist. (Christopher Cross is the only other artist ever to sweep the big four categories, in 1981.) She lost only pop solo performance (to Lizzo, for 'Truth Hurts'). In total, Eilish, 18, and O'Connell, 22, took home six of the seven awards they were nominated for.
James Bond's 'No Time to Die'. 20th Century Fox
Eilish is set to hit the road on a world arena tour which sold out within an hour of tickets going on sale. It kicks off on March 9.
The theme song 'Writing's On the Wall,' for the last James Bond film, Spectre, was performed by Sam Smith, while Adele performed 'Skyfall' for the movie of the same name.
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