A Bond movie isn’t a Bond movie without an accompanying song by a popular artist of the time. It turns out that video games based on James Bond are no different with 007: First Light also receiving the same treatment – and its track will be sung by none other than Lana Del Rey.

The First Light track dropped on YouTube on April 16 and has since amassed over 460,000 views in its first 24 hours. It’s composed by David Arnold, who has composed music for five of the previous Bond films.

It’s something of a comeback story for Del Rey, who previously wrote and pitched a Bond song back in 2015 for Spectre, only to be beaten out by Sam Smith with Writing’s on the Wall. Del Rey’s song 24 still made it onto her Honeymoon album, but was never used in a Bond film.

Now, First Light will be the associated track to go along with IO Interactive’s upcoming James Bond game, presumably playing out over an opening credits scene.

This isn’t the first Bond video game to get its own theme song. 007: Blood Stone and Everything or Nothing both had theme songs composed by famous artists at the time, each composed by Joss Stone and Mya respectively.

Early reactions to Lana Del Rey’s latest performance are mostly positive, with one Reddit comment reading: “It’s reminding me of old Lana, I’m crying happy tears.”

A second commenter adds: “Old vibes are creeping back in and I’m not complaining one bit.”

Meanwhile, a third says: “I missed her cinematic sound so much.”

007: First Light will follow a much younger version of James Bond and will let gamers play out the early stages of his espionage career. It stars Patrick Gibson as Bond himself, and Lenny Kravitz as the game’s main villain.

The game is set to release on May 27, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. A Nintendo Switch 2 port was recently delayed to later in the year.

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