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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Nobody Does It Better

If you have been a reader of my blog for a while, you will know that I go through quite a number of obsessions.  Sometimes they're songs, while other times they are people or groups (ahem One Direction:  still going strong!).  Well, right now I have a new obsession with an old song.

"Nobody Does It Better," the theme for The Spy Who Loved Me, performed by Carly Simon.

[Source:  YouTube]

I have probably heard this song around fifty times in my nineteen years of living.  "Why is she so obsessed with it now?"  Well I am glad you asked.

The song is phenomenal if you have not heard it - if you haven't heard it that means you didn't watch the video I so kindly provided above.  Typically when you hear someone talking about a James Bond song, you think of a song like "Goldfinger" - something a little more on the jazzy side.  While the song may not sound like the other Bond songs, it still did something that most 007 songs do:  the writers, Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer, incorporated the title of the movie in the song.

I love the pace of the song, as well as the lyrics.  "I wasn't looking but somehow you found me / I tried to hide from your love light / But like Heaven above me / The spy who loved me / Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight."  Nothing says "James Bond" better than using "spy" and "secrets" in the song.

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