Critical Reception
The song received an amount of mixed reviews. Stephen Thompson writing for The A.V. Club called the track "pneumatic (and) hook-deficient" Ken Tucker wrote for Entertainment Weekly that the song is a "flat James Bond" and that it "was neither Madonna Classic nor Diet Madonna With Lemon." James Hannaham from Spin was positive, writing that it's a "brilliant, melodramatic song, that sounds like a stoic response to a world gone mad. While a spooky orchestra scrapes away, Mirwais struggles to defuse a Moog-synthesizer bomb before it explodes, and Madonna declares, "It's not my time to go." Dan Gennoe wrote for Yahoo! Music that "With the style to content ratio weighed heavily in style's favour, it's hard not to see her one dimensional club tracks as trying too hard to be too clever; especially when teeth grindingly unBond Bond theme 'Die Another Day' bodypops into view." Stylus Magazine called it "a great slice-and-dice hit of fucked-up electroclash".
Critical opinion of the song widely varies as evidenced by the fact that it was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song as well as for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song in 2002. In an official MORI poll in the UK for the Channel 4 program James Bond's Greatest Hits, the song was voted 9th most popular James Bond theme by the general public. Those polled aged 24 and under voted it their number 1 favorite Bond song. Incidentally, while Die Another Day, the film, marked the 40th anniversary of the James Bond franchise.
The song received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 46th Grammy Awards but lost out to Kylie Minogue's "Come Into My World."
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