{"id":480138,"date":"2018-12-21T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=771990"},"modified":"2018-12-21T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:58:25","slug":"hear-sam-smiths-stirring-watership-down-ballad-fire-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-sam-smiths-stirring-watership-down-ballad-fire-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sam Smith\u2019s Stirring \u2018Watership Down\u2019 Ballad \u2018Fire on Fire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_9772658d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-smith\/\">Sam Smith<\/a>\u00a0shared a stirring new ballad, \u201cFire on Fire,\u201d his contribution to BBC 1 and Netflix\u2019s <em>Watership Down<\/em> adaptation. \u201cWhen we fight, we fight like lions \/ But then we love and feel the truth \/ We lose our minds in a city of roses \/ We won\u2019t abide by any rules,\u201d Smith sings. \u201cFire on fire \/ Would normally kill us \/ But this much desire \/ Together we\u2019re winners \/ They say that we\u2019re out of control And some say we\u2019re sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire on Fire\u201d is paired with a lengthy preview of the latest <em>Watership Down<\/em> series, the Noam Murro-directed adaptation of Richard Adams\u2019 award-winning novel about a pack of rabbits. The miniseries arrives on Netflix on December 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>Smith recorded the track alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra at London\u2019s Abbey Road Studios\u00a0in September 2018. The singer, who last released his The Thrill of It All in 2017, co-wrote \u201cFire on Fire\u201d with producer Steve Mac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited and honored to be a part of this new adaptation of\u00a0<em>Watership Down<\/em>,\u201d Smith said in a statement. \u201cThis story is so powerful and timeless, and it has been thrilling to work with director Noam Murro and his team and the incredible Steve Mac on this song for it. I hope everyone loves it as much as I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith previously recorded \u201cWriting\u2019s on the Wall,\u201d the theme from the James Bond film <em>Spectre<\/em>, in 2015. Following the release of <em>The Thrill of It All<\/em> in late 2017, Smith appeared on a pair of 2018 singles, Calvin Harris\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-calvin-harris-sam-smith-strut-the-catwalk-in-promises-video-718645\/\">Promises<\/a>\u201d and Brandi Carlile\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/brandi-carlile-sam-smith-new-song-party-of-one-738980\/\">Party of One<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-smith-fire-on-fire-771990\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Smith\u00a0shared a stirring new ballad, \u201cFire on Fire,\u201d his contribution to BBC 1 and Netflix\u2019s Watership Down adaptation. \u201cWhen we fight, we fight like lions \/ But then we love and feel the truth \/ We lose our minds in a city of roses \/ We won\u2019t abide by any rules,\u201d Smith sings. \u201cFire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 22:47:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}