JAKARTA - Billie Eilish is the youngest singer to fill the theme song for the James Bond franchise. It was recently revealed that Eilish was not the first name to be proposed.

Ed Sheeran admitted that he almost had that opportunity. He shared this when talking in the latest episode of the podcast That Peter Crouch.

They changed directors and scripts and that's it. We've had a meeting about concepts, I've even started writing... Ed Sheeran's story launched People.

It is known that initially Danny Boyle was initiated as the director of James Bond's latest film, No Time to Die. But he left in August 2018 due to different points of view with the production team.

Then director Cary Joji Fukunaga took over and this film aired in September 2021. Billie Eilish was assisted by her older brother, FINNEAS wrote the theme song No Time to Die.

Billie Eilish joins Sam Smith and Adele as a list of singers who contribute songs to James Bond.

In 2017, Ed Sheeran revealed that he had written a song for James Bond. He was on guard in the future asked to sing the song.

"For Bond, I actually have a song theme for three years, just in case," the story was at that time.

Ed Sheeran didn't give up on his dreams. He said he wanted to sing the James Bond song if there was such an offer in the future.

"Of course. I'm not going to pretend when I fail to do it, but yes I will. If they come back, I'll answer 'Ah of course,' said Ed Sheeran.


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