"MakeDamnSure" (originally titled "You're So Cool") is a song by American
rock band
Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Long Island, New York. The band was formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey in 1999. The band's members currently are Adam Lazzara (lead vocals), John Nolan (lead guitar, keybo ...
. It was released as the first single from their third album, ''
Louder Now
''Louder Now'' is the third studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. In April 2005, the group had begun writing material for the album. Two months later, they signed with Warner Bros. Records and contributed a song to the ''Fantasti ...
''. "MakeDamnSure" was released to radio on March 14, 2006.
It has experienced much more success than the band's other singles on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 and
Alternative Songs
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chart. It is their most successful single to date, peaking at number 48 on the Hot 100 and number 8 on the Alternative charts.
The song ranked at number 52 on ''
Rolling Stone
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''s "The 100 Best Songs of 2006".
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Music video
The music video for the song "MakeDamnSure" (directed by Marc Klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director. He has directed over two hundred music videos for artists such as Slipknot, Sum 41, Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Britney Spears, Kid Rock, Michael Bublé, Nelly, Foo Fighters, Kelly ...
) 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 short 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 Cincinnati Reds' former 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, whose seeds blow away, and then starts running in an open field, as the camera pans upwards and the video fades away.
The video was premiered on MTV2
MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American pay television channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to shift its programm ...
on April 3, 2006.
Track listing
CD Single / UK CD # 1:
#"MakeDamnSure" - 3:32
#"Sleep" - 3:20
7" Vinyl:
#"MakeDamnSure"
#"Sleep"
Enhanced CD / UK CD # 2:
#"MakeDamnSure" - 3:33
#"What's It Feel like to be a Ghost?" (Live) - 3:50
#"Error: Operator" (Live) - 3:03
#"MakeDamnSure" (Video) - 3:29
Charts
References
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2006 singles
Music videos directed by Marc Klasfeld
Taking Back Sunday songs
Song recordings produced by Eric Valentine
2006 songs
Warner Records singles