-Yeah, it's so great to see you guys.
Come on. Hello.
-Hi, Jimmy.
-You're here on a perfect day.
It is Global James Bond Day.
And you both wrote and recorded the theme song,
which is awesome.
I love it.
I want to know everything.
I want to know how it all came together.
I want to know every single -- just go for like two hours.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, it was a crazy, surreal experience.
I don't remember when it all kind of...
-Started. -...was real.
But I do know that for many years
we've wanted to write a Bond song.
Not even like we thought we could.
It was just more like... -A fantasy.
-...a fantasy, like a complete fantasy.
Like, how cool would it be to do this, you know?
But I think it was last summer-ish.
It started being a topic of discussion and not a fantasy,
and it was very insane to us.
Yeah, it was -- it was a couple months of
very, like, disbelief, I think.
-Were there scraps of songs that you tried and you're like,
"I think I got it. This is 'No Time to Die.'"
And you're like... ♪ No time to die ♪
♪ Da-ba-bup, ba-ba-bup, no time to die, ooh ♪
And then, you go, "Okay, let me just come back --
Let's do this tomorrow."
Or did you know immediately, like, "Oh, this is the tune"?
-You know, what's funny is that we kind of started
with making sure we got, like, a melody that we felt
was really solid before we tried any lyrics out.
But we did definitely, you know, before we had written anything,
go like, I -- we both think it's really important to have
the title of the movie in the song
and have the song be called that because it just --
it wouldn't have been satisfying otherwise, and so --
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Like, thinking how would we make that make sense?
What could we say? What could we -- Whatever.
So it was kind of -- we were kind of stuck for like a few --
the first few days we tried to work on it.
We were, like, you know -- It was a lot of pressure.
It's a [bleep] Bond song.
It's like, what are you supposed to -- So we were pretty stumped,
and then there was just one day where Finneas was playing on
the piano, and he just played this one melody,
and it was just that... ♪ Da-da-da ♪
And we were just like....
-"Yes!"
It's like, dude, it's so perfect.
You go -- Because they all have that, like, mysterious --
They have, like, a mystique to the Bond themes.
It was like... -Yeah.
-It's like... ♪ Da-da-da, da ♪
It's weird progression, but then you got that --
Oh, and it's almost like that one --
I don't even know what chord it is.
But it's like that... ♪ Rrrnggg ♪
-Yeah.
-You know, with the jangly guitar.
And you're like, "Ah."
I don't know.
Did they like it as soon as you sent it to them?
Did they have notes?
-Hans Zimmer loved it. I know that.
He was the one, I know that -- He really connected to it,
which was crazy for us.
-Hans Zimmer?
-Yeah, I know. -The greatest.
-How was that whole thing?
-It was crazy!
It was -- He is a doll.
He is such a joy.
And his main thing was that he wanted us to just see the movie
before we -- like, just so that we knew.
So we flew out to London, and we watched the movie,
which was, you know, like a rough cut, I guess,
a year ago-ish, under a year ago.
And then we worked with him for like a week-ish.
-Had an orchestra. It was really cool.
-It was really amazing. -[ Laughs ]
-He's so cool. -Yeah.
-I mean, how fun is that?
How does it work with an orchestra?
Like, can you change things or they just kind of know
what's already written and they go, "We're just doing this"?
-Dude, that's a good question, and I would have thought that
you couldn't change stuff once it was written, but all day,
Hans, Stephen Lipson,
who also helped produced the song with us,
and we would lean in and we'd go like,
"Could we have them try
something a little bit spookier here?"
And they would go to the orchestra and say, "Do this."
And they would change in real time.
-It was crazy. -Like, all 70 people.
Everyone was so good. It was incredible.
-That's pretty cool.
You both did a virtual performance at the DNC.
I think it was "My Future," and it was great.
Everyone looked -- People were like, "This was so good."
And before you performed, Billie, you spoke.
Why was that important to you?
-To be honest, I just think
it was my responsibility to do that.
I really couldn't want to be involved in politics less.
I would literally rather do anything else
than be talking about this and be doing anything.
And I just think that that's not...
I think that should show you
how much this actually means right now
because even with me, who is somebody that, like,
I used to just, you know, completely shut up.
I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to deal with it.
I don't want to hear anybody's opinions.
I don't want to give my own opinions.
You know, I don't want to deal with it.
I don't want to think about it.
There just comes a certain point where, like,
you can't just -- -Ignore it.
-Yeah, you can't ignore it. You can't be silent.
And I think it's -- especially having the platform that I have,
I don't want to waste that.
So I think it's really important that we all talk and speak up
even if we'd rather die. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -You know?
-I think it was really cool that you did that.
Finneas, last time you were on the show, we talked about
how you and Billie work everyday sounds into your songs.
You actually played me, like, a crosswalk beeping or something.
It was so -- It was mind-blowing.
I was wondering if you wouldn't mind showing us
how you do some of it.
-Absolutely.
So, thank you for segueing into this.
And thank you also for being generous enough to send me
your four recordings that you sent.
Just for the audience, I'm going to play a couple of them.
This is my personal favorite one.
♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
-I like that one a lot. [ Laughter ]
-Oh, my gosh. Jimmy Bond.
-I like Jimmy Bond a lot. -Please don't laugh at me.
Please. Jimmy Bond.
-Yeah, that one's great.
♪ -Vote ♪
-You singing "vote" is great.
[ Laughter ]
-I figured why not.
-This one -- This one is great.
♪ -Shakin' ♪ ♪ -Shakin' ♪
-You singing "shakin'" is great. -Oh, "shakin'", yeah.
I thought that could be the name of our song, our Bond song.
-It's great. That should be the name of it.
-[ Laughing ] "Shakin'".
-And then you sent me this file of you singing, which is great.
♪ -Time to die ♪
♪ No time ♪
♪ No time to die ♪
-Which is awesome. ♪ -No time ♪
-I wish we'd had that when we first started...
-Making the real song. -...writing the song
because that would've been great.
So I'm going to try to make, if it's okay with you...
-[ Laughs ] -I'm gonna try to make a beat
really quickly out of the samples you sent me.
Does that sound okay? -I'm freaking out right now.
Everything is falling off. I'm freaking out right now.
-Okay, so, here. -Start with Jimmy Bond.
-Jimmy Bond. ♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
-I'm going to pitch it down.
♪ -Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪
-Very cool, very metal.
♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond, Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
-Yeah! ♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ -Give him a little beat.
Give him a little beat. ♪ -Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond, Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ -[ Laughs ]
♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond, Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ I love it.
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
-That's too fun. ♪ -Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
♪ Jimmy, Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ To die ♪
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪ ♪ No time ♪
You are a genius!
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
You are brilliant!
♪ Jimmy Bond ♪
You are brilliant. Oh, my gosh.
That is what I'm talking about.
Two of the most talented people out there.
Thank you guys so much.