✨⚡"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈…"⚡✨

Today we are going to dust off one of those 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 songs that don't get much attention but are worth listening to. I'm talking about 🎸"𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐘"🎸, a 𝒃-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 included in the maxi CD2 of the single "𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚" released on January 20, 1997. 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈 recorded the drums on this track, it was produced by 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 and engineered by 𝑬𝒅 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒏.

Photo credit: Adrian Green

"𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" is also known as "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈" because 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 used to introduce the song this way before playing it as you will hear it later, and the title refers to 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 or 𝑬𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, a fictitious character in the novels and films of 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅.


📍 Created by the 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 journalist, novelist and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑶𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is the secretary of 𝑴, who is 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅's boss and the head of the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆. According to the film "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒄𝒆" (1967), she holds the rank of lieutenant in the 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝑵𝒂𝒗𝒚. In both the 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 novels and films, 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is in love with 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅, although she never expresses her feelings for him. She has a small part in the films, but she is always highlighted by the connection between her and 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 (something that is virtually non-existent in 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈's novels, but is much more apparent in the novels written by 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒓 and 𝑹𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏).


📖 In 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈's first novel, "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆", 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚's name was originally "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 '𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚' 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒍". The name "𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" derives from an unfinished novel by 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 called "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒕𝒕". 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 is believed to be based on two women who worked with 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 in 𝑵𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 during 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝑰𝑰. One of them was his secretary 𝑷𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕; she played a key role in an operation devised by 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 to deceive 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. Some theories claim that 𝑰𝒂𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 may have been inspired by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 spy 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝑨𝒕𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒔 in the creation of the character of 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚.


🎬 Her first appearance was in the film "𝑫𝒓. 𝑵𝒐" (1962) and since then she has appeared in almost every 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 film with the exception of "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆" (2006) and "𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆" (2008). 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚 has been played by actresses 𝑳𝒐𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒙𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 (1962-85), 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒔 (1987-89), 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 (1995-2002) and most recently by 𝑵𝒂𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒔 (2012-) in the official films; while in the unofficial films "𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒆" (1967) and "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏" (1983) by 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒕 and 𝑷𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒎 respectively.


⭐ Basically, "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" is a funny song where the band refers to the flirtation between 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 and 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, but it is also a mockery of the repetitive plot of these films ("𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭") and the qualities to seduce women of 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅's character ("𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦").

Among other references to 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 such as casinos and martini, his favorite drink, we also find in the lyrics two expressions of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 slang: "𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘪𝘴 (𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦'𝘴) 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦" that means to prevent someone from behaving freely or naturally and "𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦) 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘴" is used to refer to someone's death in a light-hearted or humorous way.

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🎵 About the music, I read an interesting comment from a fan who said that it seemed 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 had made their own version of "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆" composed by 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 and 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 because although it was not an exact copy, the melody of "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" captured the spirit of the original theme of the movie but with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's special touch. ✨

You can listen to the song of the movie by clicking the link below and let me know if you agree with the fan's comment.

🎧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 (𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3HLBQUk


As far as is known, 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 played "𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚" only four times live in 1998.

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3NamxG6

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐈𝐁 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3n8cOVX

🔊 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞, 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3QBPqOi

Photo credit:  Anthony Saint James

⚡🎶 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 🎶⚡
𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯,
𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦
𝘓𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴
𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘣𝘶𝘵
𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘺
𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘥
𝘖𝘯 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦.

𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩

𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘥
𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦
𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦,
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦,
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺
𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥
𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦

𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺
𝘖𝘩

𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭
𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪, 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦
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𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘴
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