When Did the Bond Song Become So White? Why Picking Sam Smith for SPECTRE May Not Have Been a Good Idea

It wasn't ever going to be anyone but Sam Smith, but until last week's announcement that he'd be singing the theme song for SPECTRE (entitled "Writing's On the Wall"), there was at least hope. By which I don't mean that Smith will do a bad job. I'm pretty sure he'll sound great. But he perpetuates an unfortunate recent trend, the whitifying of the James Bond songs. Now, I imagine people will find that point a bit odd. Several black performers have done Bond songs in the last twenty years, but it...