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Die Another Day (song)

"Die Another Day" is the theme song from the James Bond film of the same name by American singer and songwriter Madonna. The song initially leaked onto the internet in early October 2002 prior to the official release, prompting radio to play the track. It was released commercially as a single on October 22 by Maverick Records. The single was then included on her ninth studio album American Life (2003) as well as on her greatest hits compilation, Celebration (2009). Following the release of the previous Bond single, "The World Is Not Enough", MGM wanted a high-profile artist for the theme of Die Another Day, and Madonna was their choice. She wrote and produced the song with Mirwais Ahmadzaï while French composer Michel Colombier was enlisted as composer.

While developing, the track went through numerous changes. After Madonna saw the initial version of the film she adapted the song to its theme, described as a metaphor for destroying one's ego. Ahmadzaï re-arranged "Die Another Day" at his home in Paris while Colombier finished the string sections in Los Angeles. An electroclash and dance-pop number, "Die Another Day" is a mixture of strings and interpolating electronic swirls, and stuttered editing on Madonna's voice, cutting the main signal on the chorus.

"Die Another Day" received mixed responses from music critics; one group of reviewers favored its departure from traditional Bond soundtracks, while others panned its production and called it uninteresting. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Short Form Music Video. The song was a commercial success, peaking at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was the top selling dance song in the US for both 2002 and 2003. "Die Another Day" topped the charts in Canada, Italy, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Uruguay; and reached the top-ten in a number of countries worldwide.

The music video was directed by Traktor, and was developed as an independent video from the film but contained Bond influences. It depicts Madonna as a prisoner in a torture chamber, alternating with scenes of a fencing duel between good (clad in white) and evil (clad in black) personas of the singer. Wounds inflicted on both fencers are mirrored on the imprisoned Madonna, and in the end she escapes being electrocuted in the chamber. The usage of Jewish religious texts and objects in the music video led to controversy, with scholars of Judaism deeming it sacrilegious. Madonna has included the song on three of her world tours; the first being the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour, as a video interlude on the 2008–09 Sticky & Sweet Tour, and on her 2023-24 The Celebration Tour.

Background and conception
After the September 11 attacks, Madonna was in an introspective mood and started writing songs for her next studio album, American Life, with producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï. Recording started in late 2001 but was put on hold as Madonna shot for her film Swept Away in Malta, and also starred in the West End play Up For Grabs. In the meantime, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was filming the twentieth James Bond film, Die Another Day, directed by Lee Tamahori. The previous film in the franchise, The World Is Not Enough (1999) was a box office success earning US$362 million worldwide. However, the eponymous soundtrack single by alternative rock group Garbage failed to gain commercial success in the United States. The music management at MGM went to look for a high-profile artist to write and perform the title song for Die Another Day.

Madonna was their first choice, since she had been successful with soundtrack singles in the US, most recently with "Beautiful Stranger" (1999) from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me which was a top-twenty hit and earned her a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Anita Camrata, executive vice president of MGM Music explained the choice in 2002: "With every other artist, you're taking a chance. But with Madonna, she has an extraordinary track record. She has written songs for films before and they were always perfect."

By mid-February 2002 sources from the film set revealed that negotiations were under process for Madonna to sing the title song and make a cameo appearance in Die Another Day. The song deal was confirmed in mid-March with journalists reporting a complex contract which might have cost MGM around one million dollars, including Madonna's fees for music and acting, promotion, the single release and the music video.

"Die Another Day" was officially released in United States on October 22, 2002. It was supposed to be released on October 10, but got leaked a week prior to that to the radio stations. Website Hollywood.com reported that "Madonna and members of her camp were beside themselves when the song—which they claim wasn't even finished—aired on a pop station in New York City."

Writing and development
According to MTV News, work began on the song following the announcement, with French composer Michel Colombier being confirmed as the strings conductor. Colombier had worked with Madonna and Ahmadzaï on her single "Don't Tell Me" from Music. Madonna and Ahmadzaï went through their demo tracks for American Life and zeroed on one of the songs for the film. They sent the demo to MGM describing it as "this techno thing, an electronica piece rewritten to accommodate the film and the title". According to Colombier, the studio responded positively to the demo but wanted them to change it so that it blended with traditional James Bond music in some way.

The track went through various interpolations, according to executive producer of the film, Michael G. Wilson. Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg had initially confirmed that the title of the song might not be same as the film, however Wilson explained that when the singer "saw the rough [film] we were going to use, she sort of adapted the song and changed the title to 'Die Another Day'." Tamahori was concerned with the demo since it did not appear expressive to him and there were abrupt endings. However he was satisfied when Madonna re-wrote the chorus to make it suitable for the film. The writing process was explained by Madonna: I hemmed and hawed about it for a while because just for that reason though. Everybody wants to do the theme song of a James Bond movie, and I never liked to do what everybody else likes to do. It's just some perverse thing in me, right? So, but then I thought about it and I said, you know what? James Bond needs to get – needs to get techno so... Used in the opening sequence, "Die Another Day" was played 13 minutes into the film, where Bond is shown imprisoned and being tortured for over a year in a prison camp in Korea. Being a departure from the normal title sequence of the previous Bond films, Madonna faced difficulty in making the song blend with the theme of Die Another Day. Nevertheless, she understood the idea behind the opening scenes and tweaked the song accordingly. Some of the lyrics like "I'm gonna destroy my ego ... Sigmund Freud ... Analyze this" were derived from Madonna's interpretation of the film's storyline. She told an interviewer from Genre magazine that the lyrics were about "destroying your ego, and it's juxtaposing the metaphor of, you know, the fight against good and bad, and it's set inside the whole universe of Bond". "Die Another Day" was never adapted into the main score of the film. The song was later added to the track list of American Life and was also featured on her third greatest hits album, Celebration (2009).

Recording and composition
Once the song structure was finished, MGM sent Colombier in Los Angeles a rough edit of the opening sequence of the film, while Ahmadzaï sent him a longer version of the demo. Colombier had to create something inline the film score with "Die Another Day". He added some more lyrics and then went to London to conduct an ensemble of 60 string players at AIR Lyndhurst Studios. Ahmadzaï, who was already mixing and recording the other tracks for American Life, explained that the process "was often laborious but with a less-is-more philosophy that is reflected in the music's sparse arrangements." They wanted minimalist production for the song, but at the same time make them sound "futuristic".

After the orchestra sections were done, Ahmadzaï took the track back to his home in Paris and did a complete re-arrangement. String engineer Geoff Foster recalled that Madonna wanted something "big and brass" which Ahmadzaï denied, since Madonna had already done that with her 1998 single, "Frozen". Colombier explained that the final version was not the way he had structured the song, it was according to Ahmadzaï's mixing and ideas. "He's a master manipulator. Sixty real strings, played live, became audio files in his computer. They can be chopped like real pieces of fabric. He's amazingly brilliant with that," concluded Colombier. Madonna attended the recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London. There was a tango section in the song which Colombier recalled was composed perfectly during rehearsals. But during the actual recording it did not work out as expected, prompting Madonna to grab the talkback mic and telling the crew, "It's not sexy enough, think about sex!"

"Die Another Day" is an electroclash and dance-pop number, starting with strings which continues for eleven seconds, when Madonna's vocals starts with the lines "I'm gonna keep this secret / I'm gonna close my body now..." It follows with the stuttered editing on her voice, which keeps cutting the main signal, especially on the chorus "I guess.. I would die... another day". The strings again gain prominence at around the 2:20 mark. During the intermediate verse, a "raucous" laugh by Madonna can be heard. The song ends with interpolating electronic swirls and the orchestra fading out. Sterling Clover from The Village Voice explained that the ending recalled the snare drums and bass usage in songs of the microhouse genre, describing it as "cacophony of harmonic fragments". According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, the song is set in the time signature of common time with a fast tempo of 130 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of E major with Madonna's voice spanning from the notes B3 to D♯5.

Critical reception

The song received mixed reviews from music critics. Author Lucy O'Brien wrote in her biography, Madonna: Like an Icon, that the techno composition and the stuttering vocals made it "an almost anti-Bond theme". James Hannaham from Spin was positive in his review, writing that it is a "brilliant, melodramatic song, that sounds like a stoic response to a world gone mad." Writing for Yahoo! Music, Dan Gennoe felt that since the songs in American Life mostly gave prominence to style over substance, "Die Another Day" as a result had become one-dimensional. Stylus Magazine's Ed Howard described the song as "a great slice-and-dice hit of fucked-up electroclash", in an otherwise negative review for American Life.

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine considered it "forward-thinking" and believed that the record was added to American Life's track list to ensure that the album would not be devoid of a hit song. In August 2018, the same author placed it at number 51 on his ranking of the singer's singles, calling it "innovative, frustratingly anticlimactic —the aural equivalent of edging— and, perhaps fittingly, the last in Madonna’s long string of soundtrack hits". Clover described the track as "A blistering zeitgeist-negation, hostile and uneasy—as a single, a club track, a Bond theme." Chuck Taylor from Billboard was positive in his response, saying that the electronic effects rendered Madonna's vocals as non-discernible but the composition was forward thinking from Music (2000), her eighth studio album.

In his book Madonna: The Complete Guide to Her Music, author Rikky Rooksby described it as "melodically uninteresting and harmonically repetitious". He felt that the stuttered editing by Ahmadzai did not allow the song to gain its full potential but complimented the strings and the chords. Rooksby concluded by saying that "Die Another Day" reveals much about the decline in songwriting quality from the early Bond songs and was not much of an improvement over "The World Is Not Enough"; he said that the Sigmund Freud line was the "wittiest line" on the whole of American Life album.

Writing for The A.V. Club, Stephen Thompson called the track "pneumatic" and "hook-deficient". Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly criticized the song as a "flat James Bond tune" adding that it failed to become a "Madonna classic". Both Manohla Dargis from Los Angeles Times and Joe Morgenstern from The Wall Street Journal panned the song calling it "dumb". Variety's Todd McCarthy called the song "banal". Also negative was The Guardian's Jude Rogers, who wrote that "the 2002 Bond theme aimed for a sound of icy, imperial tyranny. Instead, its cut-up electronics sounded half-dead". A. O. Scott from The New York Times described Madonna's vocals as "electronically enhanced chirps" while reviewing Die Another Day.

Accolades
The song was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song, but lost to U2's "The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York. At the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated in the categories of Best Dance Recording and Best Short Form Music Video, but lost both awards; the former to Kylie Minogue's "Come into My World" and the latter to Johnny Cash's "Hurt". "Die Another Day" was also nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song of 2002 while Madonna herself won the trophy of Worst Supporting Actress for her cameo in the film.

In a 2006 MORI poll for the Channel 4 TV show James Bond's Greatest Hits, the song was voted the ninth best out of 22, but also came in as an "overwhelming number one" favorite among those under the age of 24.

Rock music critic Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph named it the fifth best James Bond theme song, describing "Die Another Day" as an electro R&B workout which was "expressively weird, brutally modern, satisfyingly original and evocative of the dark heart of Bond. Plus, Madonna actually looks as if she might be a match for Bond in either bed or battlefield. Or both." Rolling Stone listed it as the seventh best Bond song in the magazine's 2012 list of "The Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs".

Chart performance
After its release to radio in United States, "Die Another Day" started receiving strong airplay at the major US radio stations, having been spun for more than 100 times. The song garnered 35 million audience impressions in its first week, debuting at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest debut of the year at that point. It also debuted at number 19 on the Mainstream Top 40, number 40 on the Adult Top 40 and number 42 on the Hot 100 Airplay charts. The next week the song continued its ascent up the airplay charts, while reaching number 28 on the Hot 100 and becoming the "breakout" track on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The release of the CD single on October 22, 2002, prompted the song to jump from position 18 to number eight on the Hot 100, thus becoming Madonna's 35th top-ten single on the chart. This feat put her ahead of The Beatles' 34 top-ten hits and one behind tying Elvis Presley's record as the artist with the most top-ten singles on the Hot 100. The move was spurred by sales of 28,500 units of the CD which also put it on the top of Hot 100 Singles, becoming her third number one on that chart.

"Die Another Day" was the highest charting James Bond song in the US since Duran Duran's number-one single, "A View to Kill" (1985). It was also Madonna's highest-charting song since "Don't Tell Me" peaked at number four in February 2001, and was her 44th top-forty single—the most for any artist—breaking the tie with Aretha Franklin's 43 entries. The single spent 11 weeks at number one on Hot 100 Singles, becoming her most successful entry on that chart. "Die Another Day" became the best selling dance single of both 2002 and 2003 and the fifth best-selling dance single of the 2000s decade in the US. Additionally, Billboard also declared "Die Another Day" as Madonna's 33rd most successful single on the Hot 100. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the song has sold 232,000 digital downloads as of February 2013, making it one of her best selling titles released before 2005, the year when downloads began contributing into calculating the ranks on Billboard Hot 100, and one of the top ten best-selling James Bond tracks by digital purchased.

In Canada, the song debuted at number 25 on the Canadian Singles Chart, and ultimately reached the top, staying there for four weeks. The song was certified double platinum by the Music Canada (MC) for shipment of 200,000 copies. In Australia, the song debuted and peaked at number five on the Australian Singles Chart, staying for a total of 19 weeks and obtaining a gold from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 35,000 copies of the single. It was less successful in New Zealand, where it debuted and peaked at number 22 on the RIANZ Singles Chart, staying for a total of three weeks.

In the United Kingdom, "Die Another Day" entered the UK Singles Chart at number three on November 3, 2002 with 52,500 copies, being kept from the top spot by DJ Sammy's remix of Bryan Adams' 1985 single, "Heaven", and the song "Dilemma" by rapper Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland. Next week the song dropped to number 12, and continued its descent ultimately staying for a total of 16 weeks on the chart. In September 2015, the song was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling over 200,000 copies. It was listed as the 80th best selling single of 2002 in UK. The single was successful in Europe, reaching the top-ten of the charts in Austria, Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, while topping the charts in Italy and Spain. In Italy alone, the song spent 8 consecutive weeks at the top of the Musica e dischi charts. In France the song achieved gold certification from the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipping 250,000 copies of the single. Across the pan-European Hot 100 Singles, the song debuted and peaked at number three.

Development
The music video was directed by Traktor, a Swedish directing team known for several TV advertisements. It was filmed August 22–27, 2002 at Hollywood Center Studios in Hollywood, California. The total production costs for the video were around $6.1 million ($0 million in dollars), making it the second-most expensive music video ever made, after "Scream" by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. In an interview with Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Ole Sanders from Traktor recalled that in May 2002 Madonna sent them a handwritten letter, along with a demo version of "Die Another Day". The team was in Prague, shooting the music video for the Prodigy's single "Baby's Got a Temper". "We thought it was a joke, since the letter was long and handwritten. But the song sounded suspiciously like her," Sanders explained. He was then asked to go to Pinewood Studios in London to watch a half-finished version of the Bond film with producer Barbara Broccoli. Later, Sanders and one of his colleagues invited Madonna to their London home to discuss the video. By summer 2002, he had compiled the idea for the video with Madonna's inputs in it: We received daily e-mails with feedback that was concise, unambiguous and occasionally entertaining. She works extremely hard with gumption and detail, and it was clear to us how she has remained on top for twenty years. It was no use being unprepared with vague ideas disguised as creativity, and there was no place to hide... First it felt like doing nonsense, then it's fun and it's something that's going to be seen. The project brings us into contact with interesting actors within both film and music.

The video was developed as an independent Madonna clip devoid of any footage from the Bond film, but was still Bond-inspired. It portrayed Madonna in a torture chamber as a prisoner and also fight sequences where the singer duels with herself. Post-production and visual effects for the video was done by London's Moving Picture Company (MPC). They created "invisible" effects for the fighting sequences, allowing Madonna to shoot two characters. Traktor explained that every shot of the video used some visual effects, co-ordinated by the group's lead artist, Christophe Allender. The directors did not want to use too many shots for the dueling scenes, which they believed would have restricted their creative freedom. Additional post-production effects included composing the fight sequence as a cohesive theme, adding blood to the wounds inflicted on Madonna, and adding digital stills of windows against the greenscreen where the shots were taken. The final shot showed the characteristic gun barrel sequence from the Bond films. MPC artist Ziggy Zigouras used a 2K resolution shot and tailored it according to Traktor's specifications. Finally, instead of grading the film print, MPC used the negatives to achieve crisper and cleaner images.

The premiere of the video took place on MTV channels worldwide on October 10, 2002, a first occurrence in the music channel's history. The music video was included in the enhanced CD of the single, along with the "Making of the video". In 2009, the video was included on Madonna's compilation, Celebration: The Video Collection.

Synopsis
The music video begins with a bruised Madonna being dragged by two soldiers through a dark corridor, and thrown against a chair in a torture chamber. She starts singing the first verse of the song as her captors laugh at her. An alternate scene shows two people fencing inside a white lit chamber, one in black clothes and one in white. Madonna continues groping with the different objects in the torture chamber and dancing. As she repeats the words "Sigmund Freud", the soldiers catch her again and douse her head in icy-water.

The two people fencing take off their masks, which reveal them to be Madonna and her doppelgänger surprised to see each other; they resume their violent fighting. The black Madonna slices across the white Madonna's stomach, which is mirrored in the imprisoned Madonna's stomach in the chamber. She rides on a hanging chain from the ceiling and smashes a mirror across the wall. The black Madonna breaks open a dark room by throwing the white Madonna against the wall. Different artifacts from the Bond films are present in the room and the two Madonna's fight through them. Meanwhile, the Madonna in the torture chamber wears phylacteries around her arm while hiding behind an electric chair.

As the breakdown happens, the soldiers bind her on the chair but she laughs, kicks and spits on them. Midst the aggressive fighting, the white Madonna takes a speargun and shoots the black Madonna squarely on the chest. The black Madonna falls down and concurrently a soldier pulls the switch on the electric chair. They laugh loudly thinking Madonna to be burnt but as the smoke clears, they see that no remnants are to be found. They rush to inspect the chair closely and notice three letters (לאו) being burnt in the chair. They scratch their head and see a vision of a bearded man laughing at them. Madonna is shown running from the torture chamber and opens the door, as the video ends with the gun barrel sequence.

Reception and analysis
According to author Santiago Fouz-Hernández, the video employed an identity-splitting strategy in which the two Madonnas fight each other. With this she was referencing her previous videos where such tactics have been employed, like the one for "Music", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Human Nature". Joanna Rydzewska, one of the authors of the book Representing Gender In Cultures analyzed that the violent imagery in the video was Madonna's way of portraying the violence she had faced during her "tumultuous" marriage with actor Sean Penn; she added that the video was a contrast to the "tremendously independent artist she is". The end of the video sparked discussion about the words imprinted on the electric chair, a phrase that can be interpreted as "great escape" or "freedom". According to The Sydney Morning Herald, some scholars of Judaism were riled by the Jewish religious texts and objects appearing in the video. One of Madonna's Kabbalah advisors, Michael Berg, explained that "Hebrew letters Madonna displays, lamed, aleph, vov—roughly equivalent to L, A, V—form one of the 72 names of God and denote a diminishing of the ego to connect with joy and fulfillment." According to him, donning tefillin represented "diminution of the desire to receive and a strengthening of the desire to share. But for a woman to don tefillin is still not a common practice, and for a gentile to wear tefillin might be regarded by some Jews as sacrilege."

In 2004, the singer was to visit Israel regarding her Kabbalah practice. However, ultra-orthodox Jews protested her trip, saying that Madonna disgraced the religion with her portrayal of wearing phylacteries/tefillin over her arm—a Jewish custom usually reserved for men—in the music video. Israeli securities had advised the singer not to make the trip, but the singer continued her visit to the graves of Jewish sages as well as shrines such as Rachel's Tomb on the edge of Bethlehem, traditional burial place of the biblical matriarch Rachel. "Die Another Day" was nominated for Best Video from a Film at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost. It won the "Soundtrack Video of the Year" trophy at the 2003 MVPA Awards.

Live performances
Initial reports by The Observer suggested that Madonna would perform "Die Another Day" in front of Queen Elizabeth II at the premiere of the film in London's Royal Albert Hall, but it did not happen. It was not until two years later that she first performed "Die Another Day", as part of her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. The song was to be included as the final performance in the set list, but "Holiday" was chosen instead and "Die Another Day" was included in the third segment of the show. Wearing a circus-themed corset designed by Chanel, she and her dancers performed a Tango-like choreography to the song, while backdrops displayed an old man in his deathbed. The performance was received favorably by Joan Anderman of The Boston Globe, who explained that "the abstract ballroom choreography of 'Die Another Day' was an elegant antidote to the rote gyrations favored by the next generation of pop stars." Towards the end of the performance, Madonna's dancers tied the singer on an electric chair and as it was raised high above the stage, she started singing "Lament" from Evita. The performance of "Die Another Day" was included on Madonna's documentary live album I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2006), which chronicled the tour.

Four years later, "Die Another Day" was added to the set list of the 2008-09 Sticky & Sweet Tour, where it was used as a video interlude. It featured Madonna as a boxer on screen, while two of her dancers performed a faux boxing match. The video also showed Madonna in a technical knockout match, spraying her blood across the screen. Madonna's DJ Enferno remixed the song and the performance ended with the singer falling down on the ground in the video, as she emerged from beneath the stage while jump-roping. Paul Schrodt from Slant Magazine felt that the video emphasized the singer's "already-muscular arms", adding that "[u]nlike your run-of-the-mill diva, Madonna is willing to get dirty for her art, and she sometimes gets lost in her backup dancers' routine, though she's quick to remind the audience, 'I'm still the one in control'". Ben Kaplan from Canada.com noted that "Die Another Day", along with the performances of "4 Minutes" and "La Isla Bonita" are re-imagined as "parts of larger medleys, with Madonna giving shout-outs to techno, flamenco and old-school R&B influences". This performance was included on the Sticky & Sweet Tour live CD and DVD release, recorded during Madonna's shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in December 2008.

On July 26, 2012, while on The MDNA Tour, Madonna performed an exclusive club date at L'Olympia in Paris for only 2,700 fans and mixed "Die Another Day" with the song "Beautiful Killer" from her twelfth studio album MDNA. After finishing the performance of "Human Nature", Madonna wears a coat and as the opening music of "Die Another Day" starts, she wields a gun and launches into "Beautiful Killer". Excerpts of films by French actor Alain Delon—the main inspiration behind "Beautiful Killer"—were shown in the back drops.

Track listing and formats

 * UK / US 2 × 12" promo vinyl
 * 1) A "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Main Mix) – 10:08
 * 2) B1 "Die Another Day" (Thee RetroLectro Mix) – 6:59
 * 3) B2 "Die Another Day" (Deepsky Remix) – 7:27
 * 4) C "Die Another Day" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 9:25
 * 5) D "Die Another Day" (Thee Die Another Dub) – 8:26

 * UK / US / EU 2 × 12" vinyl
 * 1) A "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Main Mix) – 10:08
 * 2) B "Die Another Day" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 9:25
 * 3) C1 "Die Another Day" (Thee RetroLectro Mix) – 6:59
 * 4) C2 "Die Another Day" (Deepsky Remix) – 7:27
 * 5) D "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Dub) – 9:10

 * US 7" vinyl
 * 1) A "Die Another Day" (Radio Edit) – 3:27
 * 2) B "Die Another Day" (Album Version) – 4:38

 * US CD single
 * 1) "Die Another Day" (Radio Edit) – 3:27
 * 2) "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Main Mix) – 10:08

 * EU CD single
 * 1) "Die Another Day" (Radio Edit) – 3:27
 * 2) "Die Another Day" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 9:25
 * 3) "Die Another Day" (Thee RetroLectro Mix) – 6:59

 * US / EU / AU / JAP CD maxi-single
 * 1) "Die Another Day" (Radio Edit) – 3:27
 * 2) "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Main Mix) – 10:08
 * 3) "Die Another Day" (Thee RetroLectro Mix) – 6:59
 * 4) "Die Another Day" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 9:25
 * 5) "Die Another Day" (Deepsky Remix) – 7:27
 * 6) "Die Another Day" (Brother Brown's Bond-Age Club) – 7:51

 * GER / AU CD single
 * 1) "Die Another Day" (Radio Edit) – 3:27
 * 2) "Die Another Day" (Dirty Vegas Main Mix) – 10:08
 * 3) "Die Another Day" (Deep Sky Edit) – 4:06

Credits and personnel
Credits for "Die Another Day" are adapted from American Life and the single liner notes.
 * Madonna – lead vocals, background vocals, songwriter, producer
 * Mirwais Ahmadzaï – songwriter, producer, programming
 * Tim Young – audio mastering at Metropolis Studios, London
 * Mark "Spike" Stent – audio mixing at Olympic Studios and Westlake Audio
 * Michel Colombier – strings arrangement
 * Geoff Foster – strings engineer at AIR Lyndhurst Studios, London
 * Tom Hannen – assistant engineer
 * Simon Changer – assistant engineer
 * Tim Lambert – assistant engineer
 * Mert and Marcus – photography
 * Frank Maddocks – art direction, design

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Talk:Jim Abbott

Photo of Jim Abbott pitching
It'd be great to have a photo of Jim Abbott pitching (given that with one arm he had such a distinctive style).

Painful WikiWeakness
 • WikiWeakness #12 – contributions from a variety of authors are of varying degrees of rammatical competence and can create articles strewn with inconsistent style, spelling, punctuation, and syntax.

In the first paragraph the word, “despite,” is used twice in the same sentence. Wouldn’t a slightly higher standard of grammatical expertise benefit the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.131.69 (talk)

 * Probably. Do you have a suggestion for where we can find more knowledgeable editors, He-Who-Cannot-Sign-Postings? David Spector (user/talk) 18:32, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Hall of Fame
I don't understand why it's even mentioned that he could get in the hall of fame via the veteran's comittee. The chances of that are pretty much zero. Thedoorhinge 14:38, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Correction
"When preparing to pitch the ball, Abbott would rest a left-handed thrower's glove on the end of his right forearm."

I'll admit that this is confusing, but in fact, Abbott carried a right-handed thrower's glove on his right arm. A right-handed thrower's glove is one that you put your left hand into, which is what Abbott did after releasing the pitch. Abbott had to use his one good (left) hand for (1) throwing a pitch, then for (2) fielding a batted ball if indeed one was hit to him, and then (3) for throwing again after fielding. It couldn't have been easy, but he did it. So, basically he'd ask for a righthander's glove at the sporting goods shop, which makes him unique amongst historical southpaws. WHPratt (talk) 14:17, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Article should mention how he lost his hand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.147.38.85 (talk) 23:29, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

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When was he a minor league player
The article says "In 1989, he joined the Angels' starting rotation as a rookie without playing a single minor league game." So when was he with the Hickory Crawdads, and the other minor league teams he is in categories for? Did he play games with all these teams? If he did not play a game with a team, does it make sense to have him in the category for it? We really should not have categories that are not supported by the text. I am not seeing how they are supported by the external links, and have not seen anything in the references that support them. Categories really need to be supported by the article text.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:54, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Abbott didnt play in the minors until 1996. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Please do not WP:FORUMSHOP. Discuss the matter at one place only, per WP:MULTI. I suggest Wikipedia talk:Categorization as that is fairly central, and has attracted three replies. -- Red rose64 🌹 (talk) 15:58, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, forum shopping is bad. Sources for the info exist, we just need to expand the page. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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Even though I have made several edits to Terri Schiavo and participated in the discussions at Talk:Terri Schiavo I would like to note that I would rather avoid getting involved in this if possible. Jtkiefer 22:31, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * If this is a genuine request for "comments", then I have commented as well as I can. If it is a sneaky way of "building a case" against an Administrator who is just trying to do her (unpaid) job, then it is no more than Gaming the system in a hypocritical bullying way. (And lest anyone accuse me of "personal attacks", remember I said if.)

 * It's one or the other, genuine or spurious. I suspect the latter, but make no pronouncement. Anyway, FuelWagon is better off dropping this. I expect to be deleting it in about 25 more hours. Uncle Ed 21:07, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ed, what are you talking about? "building a case" for what? Gaming the system for what? FuelWagon 00:24, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Btw, thanks for the comments, Ed. Could you comment on the second half here? Most of it is a repeat, but it does ask for comments about whether SlimVirgin's edit qualified as a "reckless" edit, according to wikipedia's definition. FuelWagon 03:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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The Diffs to resolve dispute
"the diffs are not proper examples of trying and failing to resolve the dispute."

I've changed the diffs to the two posts from Neuroscientist, since his edits were the best from a technical errors view and also from a "no personal attacks" point of view. The "diffs to resolve dispute" should be considered in compliance with the RFC requirement. FuelWagon 19:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * They should? Well, they aren't. Please see my endorsement of SlimVirgin's summary. Now you do have comments from two editors instead of just one, but you still don't have any attempts at dispute resolution. That's perhaps not to be wondered at, since dispute resolution only fits when there's a genuine question of user conduct, and this RFC isn't that. It should have been an article RFC. Especially now that you've withdrawn the examples of "personal attacks" that SlimVirgin was supposed to have made (some of those actually made me laugh out loud), it's not in the least about user conduct. You would make yourself more respected if you withdrew the whole thing, you know. Bishonen | talk 01:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

El C
SlimVirgin wrote ''It appears that a small group of editors, currently consisting of User:FuelWagon and User:Duckecho have taken ownership of this page and won't allow others to edit without their consent. This isn't allowed.''

Despite a laundry list of issues with her edit, SlimVirgin refuses to concede any problem with her edit, and instead calls any attempt to refuse to allow her edit into the article as the editors attempting to "own" the page.

 * This is not an accusation. It is (1) an opinion and (2) a statement of policy. Both are permissible. Uncle Ed 20:46, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Come on, Ed, if I prefixed all my personal attacks with "It appears that you're an xxx", would that excuse it? Or "It is my personal opinion that you are an xxx"? Hedging it under "personal opinion" doesn't change anything. FuelWagon 21:44, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, no. Citing official Wikipedia policy is not a personal attack, I challenge. El_C 22:04, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, the ownership of article page intro is pasted below. None of it applies to me. I was reverting a massive edit on a controversial page with the mediation tag present, an edit which contained many problems listed by a number of other editors. I am not owning anything. Her claim is untrue.

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I've never "defended an article from all intruders".

Reverting a bad edit does not qualify as crossing "a certain line" or "overdoing it"

Fine by me.

I am not "warring". Plenty of problems with her edit have been brought up by a number of different editors. She has conceeded no errors in her entire edit.

I have never claimed ownership of any page.

FuelWagon

 * I do not subscribe to that interpretation and I find that it misrepresents the facts in this case, for reasons already stated elsewhere. El_C 23:29, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

appears to be owning
This was on main page. moved to talk. - SlimVirgin wrote ''It appears that a small group of editors, currently consisting of User:FuelWagon and User:Duckecho have taken ownership of this page and won't allow others to edit without their consent. This isn't allowed.''

Despite a laundry list of issues with her edit, SlimVirgin refuses to concede any problem with her edit, and instead calls any attempt to refuse to allow her edit into the article as the editors attempting to "own" the page.

 * This is not an accusation. It is (1) an opinion and (2) a statement of policy. Both are permissible. Uncle Ed 20:46, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Come on, Ed, if I prefixed all my personal attacks with "It appears that you're an xxx", would that excuse it? Or "It is my personal opinion that you are an xxx"? Hedging it under "personal opinion" doesn't change anything. FuelWagon 21:44, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, no. Citing official Wikipedia policy is not a personal attack, I challenge. El_C 22:04, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * She didn't CITE it. She accused me of violating it, which I didn't do. Citing it would be something like "taking ownership of a page violates wikipedia policy". She just came out and said I've violated it. And if saying "it appears" in front of something gives you a blank check to say anything, sign me up. As for whether or not I did or did not violate "ownership", I answered that on the talk page due to length. FuelWagon 22:46, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * To me, that appears to be an exercize in sophistry. El_C 23:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for Assuming Good Faith on my part. FuelWagon 23:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Likewise. I never claimed it was intentional, but I feel it is the reality nonetheless, and I am entitled to hold that opinion. El_C 23:31, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Look, the reason I filed an RFC was in part because an attempt to work it out on talk simply exploded. I thought that perhaps an RFC could bring in an outside, unbiased voice. SlimVirgin made a reckless edit and she still holds that it should be reinserted. If you want to ignore all the issues on an RFC because one point sounds sophist to you, fine. But I don't need people like you challenging me here. I'm trying to avoid another explosion. FuelWagon 23:49, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll comment on and direct challenges toward whatever I see fit, I'm not bound by the conditions you set. El_C 00:03, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I set no conditions. I said I don't need people like you challenging me. If you want to "direct challenges toward whatever (you) see fit", fine. It's good to have a some purpose in life. If you'd like to help keep this RFC non-combative though, I would appreciate the help. If not, whatever. I just made a request. You get to choose. FuelWagon 00:09, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I am not interested in responding to that at this time. El_C 00:16, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

- Fuelwagon, please do not remove other people's comments from the page. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:24, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * We now have comments (namely my own) from the main page, duplicated more than once on this page, integrated into the same space as talk comments (a superimposed order), as in a single narrative assmebled by Fuelwagon. El_C 03:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * FuelWagon, please stop deleting posts. If you want to withdraw yours, and doing so would leave other comments meaningless, then please strike through yours, using and ; and if you want them on this page, please copy them instead of deleting. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:34, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Not certified
As FuelWagon has withdrawn his certification and there is no evidence of prior attempts at dispute resolution, I'd like to request that this RfC be deleted as non-certified when the 48 hours is up, which is at 22:06 (UTC), July 16. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:07, July 16, 2005 (UTC)


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Sith is a class not a species.
A sith is not a species it is a class. See:Sith.

I dont want to change it for you without your knowing.

Whoops. Sorry you were right. A sith is a species. Sorry about that.

It was a species, but now exstinct, the sith are followers of an ideal

Ludo Kressh was a sith in both meanings of the word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Garlic Butternoodles (talk • contribs) 02:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Why exactly does this page redirect to a page that has absolutely nothing to do with Ludo Kressh? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Garlic Butternoodles (talk • contribs) 02:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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''The longest river (175 miles in Albania) is the Drin, which originates in the Kosovo region of Serbia. Other main rivers are the Seman, Shkumbin, and Vjosë, all of which drain the central part of the western plain. Albania also has many lakes, the most important of which are Lake Scutari (Liqeni i Shkodrës) in the northwest and Lakes Ohrid and Prespa along the eastern border.''

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Icelandic
I can translate the thing about you on you page to Icelandic.

Fæddur/Fædd (depends on gender) í Notodden, Norway. Forfeður frá Þýskalandi og fjölskylda í Bandaríkjunum og Kanada. Bý í Bergen.

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The result of the debate was delete. Dmcdevit·t 05:58, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Beefy
Delete. Vanity/advertisement. Only 19 unique hits for "beefy" + "whitesican" (not counting the two from his own website). Postdlf 22:36, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Chef Boyardee Ravioli Delete, fails WP:MUSIC, website beefyness.com is #4,810,234 on Alexa and is not linked to from any other site. Dcarrano 23:11, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect to Ian Botham depending on policy of redirecting based upon nickname. Hiding 07:12, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. Fails WP:MUSIC guidelines. JamesBurns 03:56, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
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Excellent contribution
As a longtime editor of the creation-evolution controversy I'd like to thank you for your contribution to that article. It was sorely needed. Joshuaschroeder 00:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

SSP
Hello RichardMathwes. I have noticed that you have edited the SSP page several times. I was wondering if we can work togeather to further expand it.--BorisFromStockdale 05:10, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Your message at Requests for feedback  You can find live help on Wikipedia's help chat Hello,. Bejinhan replied to your request for feedback. Best regards, Bejinhan   talks   11:05, 20 August 2010 (UTC).

Jerry Nelson (astronomer)
Hi, your article qualifies for a WP:DYK. Would you like to submit one or do you want me to do it for you? You will still get credit if I submit for you. Cheers and looking forward to your reply, Bejinhan   talks   11:07, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the edits. They look good. I also removed the birth day/month since that came from the blacklisted source.

 * Thanks also for the DYK suggestion. I don't know anything about that process. I'd appreciate it if you would submit it.--RichardMathews (talk) 22:22, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

 * You're welcome. I've added the DYK submission here. Feel free to take a look at it. Bejinhan   talks   03:27, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jerry Nelson (astronomer)
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Jerry Nelson
Thanks for providing categorizations of the Jerry Nelson and SSP articles.

The guidelines for importance ratings say that High includes "All astronomers who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize." Since Nelson won the Kavli prize for astrophysics, doesn't that put him in this category? The Kavli has been called the "New Nobel" and the "Next Nobel" (though it has a bit of a different focus). The Kavli certainly conveys considerable prestige and fortune (a million dollars). What do the guidelines mean by "major prize" if not the Kavli?

 * Well, for major prize I usually think in terms of the Nobel or the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. It looks like the Kavli has only recently been founded and I'm still unclear about the level of prestige it denotes. But fine, it can be made a high. That'll put him in the same group as Nicolaus Copernicus, John Herschel, Fred Hoyle and Johannes Kepler. :-)

I also think the Nelson article deserves better than a Start rating. It is certainly well sourced and verifiable, and it contains a decent amount of information on Nelson's life and work. It earned a DYK on the Wikipedia front page. Other available biographies have no more information about him. A biography of a living person cannot delve too deep into private life, and it would not be appropriate to do original research into his life. I think at least a B Class would be reasonable. If there is anything keeping it from going all the way to GA, I'd like to know what that is in order to address the problems. --RichardMathews (talk) 22:35, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

 * It just looked like a start to me. The citations are unformatted and the article is fairly brief. For some sample B articles on astronomers, see John Couch Adams, George Biddell Airy and Fred Hoyle.

 * If you feel like I have rated you unjustly, I suggest asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy for another editor to review the ratings. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 22:58, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jerold Krieger
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 * Thanks, Joseph. It is because I am aware of WP:COI that I took the precaution of submitting this through AfC rather than just creating it myself. It's good to have an extra pair of eyes to make sure I am treating the subject fairly.
 * I do feel that this should be well above Start-Class. It thoroughly covers all of the material available in all reliable sources. I think I write pretty well. This could be B-Class, and I could see it not taking much to take this to GA. I have submitted to Project U.S. for assessment.
 * I am also interested in taking this to DYK.RichardMathews (talk) 16:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Yolanda Vargas Dulché

Yolanda Vargas Dulché de la Parra (July 18, 1926 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico– August 8, 1999 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer principally known for the creation of the comic book character of Memín Pinguín and various telenovelas for Mexican television. She began her writing career as a way to supplement income for several newspapers, creating Memín Penguín in 1943. By 1960, she has successfully published a number of comic books, encouraging her husband, Guillermo de la Parra, to write as well. The two went on to create various successful telenovelas including Rubí, which has been redone for both television and film. In total Varga Dulché published over sixty titles in both Mexico and abroad. Rubí was published between 1963 and 1964 in the romance comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor.

Also in the comics, Yolanda Vargas Dulché created the character Memín Pinguín.

Life
Vargas Dulché was born to poor parents Armando Vargas de la Maza and Josefina Dulché in Mexico City along with one sister, Elba. The family's unstable economic situation meant that the family moved frequently, causing the girls to change schools. However, this brought Yolanda into contact with various elements of Mexican society, which would influence the creation of her literary characters later. These frequent moves included a stay in the United States with her sister for a short time before moving back to Mexico City permanently.

To make ends meet, Vargas Dulché worked at several jobs. She collaborated with Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta on radio station XEW-AM singing songs by Agustín Lara, Pedro Vargas and Toña la Negra and then forming a duet with her sister called "Rubia y Morena" which sang with Agustín Lara. Her career as a writer began to supplement income from singing.

While working as a writer she met her husband Guillermo de la Parra with whom she had five children including actress Emoé de la Parra and Manelick de la Parra. She also has eleven grandchildren which include singers/actor Mané de la Parra and musician Alondra de la Parra.

With her husband she had success as a writer, comic book illustrator and producer of telenovelas and films. With her own money, she constructed an entire town in the state of Durango, homes, schools, etc., which still exists. She also created a chain of hotels in Mexico.

She died on August 8, 1999, after finishing a short autobiography called Aroma del tiempo.

Career as a writer
During her career she was a singer, journalist, mother and businesswoman, but she is best known for her comic book work, especially Memín Pinguín, and the writing and producing of telenovelas from the 1940s to the 1990s. She began her writing career as a way to supplement income from singing, beginning with the ESTO newspaper and Editorial Argumentos. She then began writing essays and stories for the El Pepín magazine, where she first created a black character in the 1940s which would develop into Memín Pinguín. The name was derived from her then boyfriends nickname of Pingo. She also wrote for Novedades de México. She then was hired by the Chamaco publication for three times what she was making before. However, because of personal conflict with her boss, she saved her money and when she could, left the publication to create her own company but this failed.

Despite the failure she had published over a dozen profitable comic books by 1960. Her success encouraged her husband to write, creating his first success called Rarotonga. Their combined success provided sufficient income to found Grupo Editorial Vid and begin to produce telenovelas and films with their major productions being "Cinco rostros de mujer," "María Isabel," "Yesenía,", "Rubí," "Ladronzuela" and Gabriel y Gabriela." Most of these are inspired by series published in the comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor.

Her comic book writing style is considered to be unique and was popular in Mexico for over forty years, especially with the lower classes. At the height of her popularity she was the most read woman in Mexico, after only Corín Tellado in the Spanish language in general, with her comics selling 25 million copies a month. She had over sixty works published in Mexico as well as Indonesia, China, Japan, Italy, Colombia, the United States and the Philippines.

She is considered to be a pioneer in popular literature in Mexico, called the "Queen of the comic books". Her work received various recognitions including that of the first Convención Nacional de Cómic y Ciencia Ficción of Mexico City. In 2006, the book "La reina de la historietas de México" was published by Mexican cinematographer David Ramón and published by the Sociedad General de Escritores de México. In 2012, the Museo de Arte Popular in collaboration with Editorial Vid and Televisa paid homage to Vargas Dulché with an exhibition of her work, especially how it appeared on film and television.

Works
Her major works include comics and screenplays for Mexican telenovelas, with some over her comic work crossing over into film and television. Her most important comic work is based on a character called Memín Pinguín, considered to be an icon of Mexican comic books. Created in 1943 the comic is about a black boy with exaggerated features who is a dreamer and a trickster but always does what is right. His name was inspired by her husband Guillermo de la Parra, who was called "pingo" (meaning jester or trickster in Mexican Spanish) by his colleagues because of his jokes. The character, which appears in film and radio along with comic books is an important part of modern Mexican popular culture still. In 1985, the Mexican ministry of education declared Memín Pinguín required reading in public schools because "it promotes respect for the family and institutions in students." She began publishing other stories and comics in the 1950s. Other comic book characters include a series called El Pecado de Oyuki (Oyuki's Sin) based on a Japanese woman, and María Isabel, about a poor indigenous women who comes to the city with a little girl, who is not her daughter. María Isabel was played by actress Silvia Pinal for the film version.

Her other major works were telenovelas, novels adapted into a series on television with a definite beginning and end. One of the most important of these include Rubí (1969), about a smart and beautiful woman whose main interests are money and power. A 2004 version of Rubí stars Bárbara Mori, Eduardo Santamarina, Jacqueline Bracamontes, Sebastián Rulli and Ana Martín, and a teleserye version of the story was created in the Philippines in 2010. Other successful radio novels and telenovelas include Cinco rostros de mujer (1947), Zorina (1949), Ladronzuela (1949) Yesenia (1970), Encrucijada (1970), El amor de María Isabel (1971), Gabriel y Gabriela (1982) and Alondra (1995).

title: Yolanda Vargas Dulché