{"id":534506,"date":"2026-04-16T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:11","slug":"listen-to-lana-del-reys-theme-for-the-new-james-bond-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534506\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Lana Del Rey\u2019s Theme for the New James Bond\u2026 Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade after <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29855-lana-del-rey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lana Del Rey<\/a> submitted her song \u201c24\u201d for <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/news\/general-news\/lana-del-rey-james-bond-theme-song-1235009032\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/news\/general-news\/lana-del-rey-james-bond-theme-song-1235009032\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/news\/general-news\/lana-del-rey-james-bond-theme-song-1235009032\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consideration<\/a> as the theme to the 2015 James Bond film Spectre\u2014Sam Smith\u2019s \u201cWriting\u2019s On the Wall\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/61289-sam-smith-and-disclosure-share-their-james-bond-theme-song-writings-on-the-wall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chosen instead<\/a>\u2014the pop singer has finally collaborated with the franchise. No, it\u2019s not for a new 007 film but a new 007 video game called First Light. Listen to the song below while you wait for news of <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/apr\/16\/james-bond-casting-announcement\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/apr\/16\/james-bond-casting-announcement&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/apr\/16\/james-bond-casting-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who the next Bond will be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Del Rey wrote the track alongside frequent Bond composer David Arnold. In a statement, Arnold said that, \u201cLana brought an elegance and atmosphere to the song that felt perfectly suited to continuing that tradition while introducing something fresh for a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, Del Rey <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-lana-del-rey-put-her-head-in-an-oven-in-white-feather-hawk-tail-deer-hunter-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> \u201cWhite Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter,\u201d the latest offering from her forthcoming album.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit our review of the 2023 album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lana-del-rey-did-you-know-that-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Did You Know That There\u2019s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a decade after Lana Del Rey submitted her song \u201c24\u201d for consideration as the theme to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,24567,128,50,1012,56,54,55,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-534506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lana-del-rey","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}