When you play the two back to back, it's clear what Mendes was thinking about, and how Adele transformed it into the hit we know now. But in the end, she wrote something, Adele, that was remarkably specific to the picture.' 'Look at 'Nobody Does It Better,' which is an incredibly personal song, and you know, Carly Simon's presumably not entirely writing about Bond. In order to get her in the right frame of mind, he recommended listening to the song that kicked off 'The Spy Who Loved Me:'
Given how personal her songs are, he could see that the Grammy Award-winning artist was initially nervous about getting it right.
In the director's commentary, Mendes couldn't say enough great things about Adele.
