name | Another Way to Die |
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cover | Another Way 2 Die 007 QoS.jpg |
artist | Jack White and Alicia Keys |
album | Quantum of Solace and As I Am: The Super Edition |
released | September 30, 2008 (U.S.)October 20, 2008 (Europe) |
format | CD single, digital download,7" single |
recorded | 2007; Sputnik Sound, Blackbird Studio(Nashville, Tennessee) |
genre | Alternative rock |
length | 4:23 |
label | Third Man, J, XL |
writer | Jack White |
producer | Jack White |
chronology | Alicia Keys singles |
last single | "Superwoman"(2008) |
this single | "Another Way to Die"(2008) |
next single | "Empire State of Mind"(2009) |
misc | }} |
"Another Way to Die" is a song by American rock musician and singer Jack White (of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather) and American R&B;/soul singer Alicia Keys. Written and produced by White as the theme song to the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace, it was released as a single in the United States on September 30, 2008 and in Europe on October 20, 2008.
The song—which features White on vocals, guitar and drums and Keys on vocals—is the first duet in the Bond film series and was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 2009 Grammy Awards, with director P. R. Brown. It was also nominated for Best Song at the 2008 Critics' Choice Awards. The song won Best Original Song at the Satellite Awards 2008.
The single was released as a limited edition 7" single of 6,000 copies in the U.S. on September 30, 2008 by White's label Third Man Records, and in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2008 by XL Recordings. It was also released as a downloadable song for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour on November 7, 2008. An instrumental version of the song was also used in a Coca-Cola commercial, as Coca-Cola Zero is being used to promote the film.
Roughly the first two minutes of the song were first played on September 13, 2008 on the radio show Siglo 21 on Radio 3 in Spain. The song premiered on British radio on September 18, 2008 on BBC Radio 1's The Jo Whiley Show. Newsbeat described the reaction from listeners who e-mailed their opinions as mixed. On October 3, 2008 the music video premiered on Channel 4.
In the opening titles to the theatrical film, the song begins when Bond fires a bullet. He roams the desert aiming his gun in every direction, and slowly the sand dunes he has been patrolling become nude women in silhouette. Aside from the desert theme, there are also visual cues of the night sky, and lines of celestial navigation seen, as well as various handgun silhouettes. The main colors used in the video are black, blue, and orange.
In the United States it debuted at number eighty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated November 29, 2008, spending one week only on the chart.
In Australia the single made its way into the top forty, peaking at number twenty-nine for the week of December 1, 2008. "Another Way to Die" was the first James Bond theme song to feature on a Triple J Hottest 100 playlist, compiled almost every year since 1989; in 2008 the song was ranked the eighty-seventh most popular.
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Category:2008 singles Category:Alicia Keys songs Category:Jack White songs Category:Number-one singles in Finland Category:Quantum of Solace Category:Songs from James Bond films Category:Songs written by Jack White Category:Vocal duets
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