MakeDamnSure
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| "MakeDamnSure" | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
||
| Single by Taking Back Sunday | ||
| from the album Louder Now | ||
| Released | 2006 | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Rock, 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 from 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 number nine. It also appeared on the Hot 100, where it peaked at #48.
[edit] Trivia
- The stadium being demolished in the video is Cinergy Field, former home of the Cincinnati Reds, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Taking Back Sunday can be seen performing part of this song in an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation named for one of their other songs, "What It Feels Like to Be a Ghost."
- Many similarities can be drawn between this and the music video for Best of You by Foo Fighters.
