Licence To Thrill: Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell On ‘No Time To Die’, Future Film Songs & Surprise L.A. Gigs – Crew Call Podcast

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When a producer such as Barbara Broccoli flies to your concert and hands you 23 pages from the next Bond script, you could say you’ve landed the job of writing the pic’s theme song.However, multi-Grammy winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell remain humble, saying that at really no point in time were they sure they were a lock for the theme to No Time to Die.

Let’s face it, Bond, which skews older, needs young fans, and if there’s a window to millennials, it’s Eilish who counts (rounding up) at least 200M on social media.“We didn’t have the feeling, we’re the perfect people to do this,” says Eilish about being approached to write the title theme to Bond 25, “we didn’t feel worthy at all.”“It was not a ‘You have the job’ thing, it’s ‘Let’s see if you have the thing that it takes’ kind of thing,” the bluesy singer adds.

Two events made them realize that their tune was a go: an advance screening of the 2019 movie in London, and Daniel Craig’s final blessing.We talk with the songwriting duo today about their process (“It started with a couple of days of not knowing what the f*** to do,” admists Eilish), their self-imposed “rules” to writing a 007 anthem (that minor 9 chord), discovering the song while on tour, and making way for a cameo by the orchestra in the song which went on to win the Golden Globe, Grammy and Critics Choice award. “No Time to Die” is the sixth 007 theme to be nominated at the Oscars since Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” in 1974; the last two Bond songs to take home an Academy Award for Best Song being Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre in 2016 and Adele and Paul Epworth’s “Skyfall” from the same-titled movie in 2013.And while the mere feat of writing songs for the