{"id":75662,"date":"2026-04-16T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75662"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:15","slug":"james-bond-007-first-light-title-track-by-lana-del-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75662","title":{"rendered":"James Bond 007: First Light Title Track by Lana Del Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>James Bond video game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/007-first-light\">007: First Light<\/a> will feature a main title theme sung by Lana Del Rey, publisher IO Interactive has announced. <\/p>\n<p>Bond fans have long suspected Del Rey is behind 007: First Light&#8217;s title track \u2014 ever since she registered a fresh song titled &#8220;First Light&#8221; to the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) database late last year. Del Rey had used her real name, Elizabeth Grant, for the registration \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/after-previous-james-bond-movie-snub-fans-think-lana-del-rey-has-recorded-the-theme-song-for-007-first-light\">but internet sleuths quickly connected the dots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the track is live on Del Rey&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fA82c4YkAZ4\">YouTube<\/a> channel \u2014 and it sounds a fitting Bond song, while also playfully referencing the fact First Light is a video game (and perhaps also Del Rey&#8217;s own iconic tune, Video Games). Veteran Bond composer David Arnold (who scored five Bond films, from Tomorrow Never Dies to Quantum of Solace) is behind its score.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised to see you running toward the sun,&#8221; Del Rey sings. &#8220;It&#8217;s the first light of day&#8230; Ah, you&#8217;re ready? All the fates just watch you, dying just to know whether you&#8217;ll play your life like a game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The track is a fitting addition to the franchise for Del Rey \u2014 who previously recorded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bond video game 007: First Light will feature a main title theme sung by Lana Del Rey, publisher IO Interactive has announced. Bond fans have long suspected Del Rey is behind 007: First Light&#8217;s title track \u2014 ever since she registered a fresh song titled &#8220;First Light&#8221; to the ASCAP (American Society of Composers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":75664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75666,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75662\/revisions\/75666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}