With her smoky vocal style and fondness for cinematic arrangements, Lana Del Rey always seemed destined to sing a Bond theme, but perhaps she thought her chance had come and gone.
Speaking to the BBC in 2024, she revealed that she’d previously submitted a Bond song, believed to be for 2015’s Spectre, in the shape of 24, but had it rejected in favour of Sam Smith’s The Writing’s On The Wall. Instead, it appeared on her fourth studio album, Honeymoon, which was released that same year.
