From the Mail On Sunday:-

Madonna's theme song for the latest Bond movie has been rubbished by the man who created the film score. Grammy award winning composer David Arnold, a veteran of the last three Bond movies, described her synthesised, techno dance track as the worst Bond song ever. He did not use a note from her 'tune-free' composition in the rest of the score for Die Another Day.

He said: 'The studio needed maximum exposure in America and they needed a major star to guarantee radio airspace. Madonna brings that.' At the premiere when Prince Phillip heard that Madonna sang the theme tune, he asked:'Are we going to need ear plugs?'. The composer, who has written the scores of a host of blockbusters said: 'I feel sorry for that old boy having to sit through that - it was very loud. If I'd had a pair, I would have given him them.' Mr Arnold had wanted a traditional, orchestral opening number with the power of Dame Shirley's Bassey Goldfinger, which could be subtly reworked into the score at dramatic moments in the film.

But Madonna's song, which uses a Vocodor devide to give her voice a robotic tone, stands completely apart. The pop queen herself said: 'I thought it was time Bond was introduced to techno.' Mr Arnold did not. He wrote a classical score for an 85-piece orchestra and hired superstar DJ Paul Oakenfield to give it a contemporary feel. He added: 'Madonna had no place in my musical world for Bond. She has endured stinging criticism but no-one has criticised me for not working her score into the filmscore. She got three minutes, I got 92. Being asked to do Bond is a poisoned challice because you are competing with some of the greatest songs ever written. Madonna is no Shirley Bassey. People often use a Vocodor to disguise the fact that they can't sing. Can Madonna sing? No comment. Ideally I would have liked to have made some musical sense of her song but I couldn't. If you ask Bond fans they don't like it - if you ask Madonna fans they love it. I am a Bond fan.'

So there you go. People only use Vocodor's to disguise the fact that they can't sing. Is it one of the worst Bond songs ever? Or is, at least, one of Madonna's worst songs? Have your say.

On a lighter note the News of the World carry a small picture of Madonna complete with what is fast becoming her trademark flat cap and comment on how she looks like a bloke:-

Who's that girl? Well, I reckon Madonna looks more like a geezer than a bird in this get-up. She wore her true Brit-style flat cap as she left London's Mandarin Oriental hotel with hubby Guy Ritchie. An onlooker said: 'She's been living here for so long, she probably considers herself a Brit and it did look like she was trying to be one. It was OTT but then Madge has never been one for dressing down, has she?'

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