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 The four-minute ballad, a haunting song of betrayal and despair
co-written by Eilish and her older brother, Finneas, and
performed to an orchestral arrangement, was posted on Thursday
to YouTube and various music streaming sites.
The recording, itself titled "No Time to Die," was produced by
Finneas with a musical arrangement by Hans Zimmer and Matt
Dunkley. The track, released by Eilish's Interscope
Records/Darkroom label, includes veteran British session
musician Johnny Marr on guitar.
Eilish, 18, becomes the youngest artist ever to write and record
a James Bond theme song, following in the footsteps of such
stars as Adele, Madonna and Paul McCartney.
The song's foreboding lyrics more than suggest a romance that
meets with a decidedly unhappy ending, as Eilish sings in a
chorus:
"Fool me once, fool me twice/Are you death or paradise?
"Now you'll never see me cry/There's just no time to die."
The movie "No Time to Die," the 25th title in the James Bond
motion picture franchise, is due to arrive in theaters in April,
with Daniel Craig resuming his title role as the British secret
agent for a fifth and final time.
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Eilish is slated to perform the theme song live for the first time
at the Brit Awards in London Feb. 18, ahead of the March 9 launch of
her North American arena tour, Interscope said in a statement.
She had widely been expected to debut the Bond single at the Academy
Awards show on Sunday, but she sang the Beatles' "Yesterday" during
the telecast's in memoriam segment instead.
Two weeks earlier Eilish swept the Grammys by taking the four top
prizes - best album, best record, song of the year and best new
artist - becoming only the second musician to win all four
categories on the same night.
Eilish wrote and recorded most of her debut studio album - "When We
Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" - with her brother, Finneas, 22, in
the small bedroom of their Los Angeles-area home.
The album, including such hits as "When the Party's Over,"
"Everything I Wanted" and "Bad Guy," ranked as the No. 1 album of
2019.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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