Nice. So in some other time zones…
New York - Thursday 7pm
London - Friday midnight
Central Europe - Friday 1am
Sydney - Friday 11am
Oh and there’s an actual short snippet of the song in that tweet.
…guess now we know why Billie sang that Yesterday cover at the Oscars
Definitely a ballad…
Odd time, though. The evening in the US and middle of the night in Europe?
Nice! Looking forward to it!
Wow…those opening few bars sound gorgeous! Very Skyfall-esque… I’ll definitely be looking forward to the release online tomorrow! 
Thursday midnight??
I might have the zone calculations all wrong?
I stan… heavily!!!
Agreed. Haunting sort of feel to it. Trying not to get my hopes up (especially after the fakeout of the first snippet of “Another Way to Die” in what I think was a Coke ad or some such).
Sorry to confuse - I mean 00:00 on Friday, late night on Thursday. So just over 25 hours from now.
Excellent, exciting news!
I just can’t help but wonder if back in the day all Cubby would have done to announce the 25th Bond song coming is a re-tweet
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Your statement raises a question I’ve had throughout the Craig era. In today’s landscape, does the artist retain copyright of the title song versus EON? And that’s why it hasn’t been on the official soundtracks of late? I don’t know about Europe, but in the states - Quantum of Solace is the only Daniel Craig era soundtrack with the title song attached. The other three films you have to separately purchase the title song. If this is a fact, perhaps EON contractually gives the artist partial control over the song and it’s their baby to announce. I’m just guessing as always.
To answer the first part of the question, Adele’s Skyfall song says “copyright Melted Stone Limited under exclusive license to Danjaq LLC” while the score album says “copyright Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc” so I would assume the artist technically owns the song but license’s it to EON for use in the movie.
But…
…you don’t need to have the song’s copyright to announce news about it, especially when you’ve licensed it for use in your movie. If that’s all you’re going to do is tweet about it, at least compose your own damn tweet instead of just re-tweeting somebody else. It just struck me as such a minimal effort thing.
Perhaps they planned something for the actual release tomorrow.
Billie Eilish has 3.6 million followers on twitter. That will sell tix.
Billie Eilish announcing the announcement will get eyes of her fans on it - and she has many more followers than James Bond’s social media - the 53.7 million on Instagram is where the announcement was likely targeted.
But definitely sounds in the Skyfall, Writings on the Wall vein - not sure when solo piano intros became the neccessary element of every James Bond theme but im interested to hear it
Guys, you’re misinterpreting the point I’m trying to get across. I’m not saying Billie Eilish shouldn’t have made her announcement. That should have been pretty freaking obvious. I’m saying that Eon could have put a little effort into making their own announcement to go along with it, their own social media post, rather than simply clicking the “re-tweet” button.
I think they will share the actual song “properly” - but its probably more effective for them to retweet her announcing the release to be honest. The idea is, I assume, to bring Eilish fans to Bond and by keeping the announcement in one place done by Eilish
This intro is really nice and has Bondian harmony changes.