This is growing on me. I like it. The video adds a lot to the music.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” upcoming episode premiering tomorrow, Thursday, October 2, featuring the cast from The Secret Lives of Bees, the New York Times Bestseller which is coming to the big screen this Fall.
Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo will sit down with Oprah to discuss the film and answer viewer questions. Alicia Keys will close out the show with her hit song “Superwoman”!
There’s been a slight amount of backlash regarding the latest James Bond film, due out in November. Not only is its title, The Quantum of Solace, unappealing to the ear (and rather confusing), but the official Bond song has not lived up to expectations. Entitled Another Way to Die, it was written and performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys. Some fans aren’t quite happy with the results, and I can understand why. White and Keys don’t seem to mix well, and the duo seems like a deliberate marketing strategy to capitalise on both the rockers and the pop fans, but diluting the qualities of each, and pleasing few.
So, for your consdieration, here are two alternatives. Above is Adam Buxtun’s theme tune, concerning itself with Bond’s interest in just a quantum, and no more, of solace. Below is Joe Cornish’s response, which seems like an apt summary of the reinvented Bond. Adam and Joe used to present the amusing late night UK sketch show The Adam and Joe Show, and now host their own show for the UK’s BBC Radio 6, which is well worth checking out.
In more Alicia Keys news, it has been announced that she and Jack White of The White Stripes will sing the theme song for the next James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. It will be the first duet theme song in the twenty-two film series.
Titled "Another Way to Die", the song has been penned by White who also plays drums on the track. The soundtrack will be released October 28, with the film opening in theaters November 7.
Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis were previously rumored to be the singers for the song.
UGO reports that film producer JC Spink wants singer Alicia Keys to play Agent 355 in Y: The Last Man, the film adaptation of the comic book series that details the exploits of the last guy on earth.
"I think Alicia Keys would be fantastic," he said. "Or Zoe Saldana. By then Star Trek will be out and she’ll be huge. I don’t think Jada Pinkett Smith would be right but a lot of people like her".
As for rumors circulating Shia LaBeouf’s involvement, Spink commented that they are trying to get him on board.
In the forefront, U.S. recording artist Alicia Keys may sing the title song for the next James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace.”
Reportedly, Beyonce, Leona Lewis, Duran Duran, Jack White, Duffy and Annie Lennox are some of the other performers who submitted songs for consideration to producers of the film, which stars British actor Daniel Craig as the maverick-turned-suave secret agent.
Official announcement hasn’t occurred yet but on the news lines it’s being reported that “Alicia is the winner.”
James Bond hits the theaters November 2008.