MakeDamnSure

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"MakeDamnSure"

Single by Taking Back Sunday
from the album Louder Now
Released	2006
Recorded	2005
Genre	Emo, Alternative Rock
Length	3:32
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s)	Taking Back Sunday
Producer(s)	Eric Valentine
Taking Back Sunday Singles chronology
Set Phasers to Stun (2005)	MakeDamnSure(2006)	Twenty-Twenty Surgery (2006)

"MakeDamnSure" is an alternative rock song by Taking Back Sunday on their first major label release, Louder Now. It has experienced much more success than the band's other singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and Modern Rock Tracks chart.

[edit] Music video

The music video for the song "MakeDamnSure" (directed by Marc Klasfeld) switches between scenes of the band playing in a wind tunnel and scenes of violence and destruction (such as a car crashing off a cliff, or bombs exploding in a village). The wind in the tunnel gradually increases, and when the loud chorus part repeats for the last time, it almost blows them away. As the song slows down, the violent images are replayed, but this time, they are transformed into a mundane scene considered to be "happy", i.e. the scene of the police officers using fire hoses on protesters turns into a scene of a woman watering her plants, and the stadium being demolished turns into a shore view. The video ends as Adam Lazzara, who's viewed singing in profile, slowly turns into a boy, who blows on the microphone, which has turned into a dandelion clock whose seeds blow away, and then starts running in an open field, as the camera pans upwards and the video fades away.

[edit] Chart performance

On the modern rock chart, "MakeDamnSure" surpassed the performance of the band's previous highest charting song, "A Decade Under The Influence" from the Where You Want To Be album, by reaching #9. It also appeared on the Hot 100, where it peaked at #48.