The Bond music lies limp, ready to be ravished by the ideology of Hollywood and its most potent franchise, born in the Cold War and now ready for a Hot One. Billie Eilish tries to smolder but only emits a humid readiness to give herself into the machine. “Was it obvious to everybody else / That I’d fallen for a lie?” she sings as the strings waft above. You didn’t have to hear a single note to know that she had.  More

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