Guaranteed (song)

Song infobox
Name = Guaranteed


Artist = Eddie Vedder
Album = Into the Wild
Background = khaki
Released = September 18, 2007
track_no = Track 11
Recorded = 2007 at Studio X, Seattle, Washington
Genre = Folk music
Length = 3:05
Label = J
Producer = Adam Kasper, Eddie Vedder
Writer = Eddie Vedder
prev = "End of the Road"
prev_no = Track 10
next = "Guaranteed"
(Humming Vocal)
next_no = Hidden track"Guaranteed" is a song by Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder from the "Into the Wild" soundtrack (2007). It is the final track on the album. On the album the track also features a hidden track of "Guaranteed" (Humming Vocal) after about two minutes of silence following the regular version of "Guaranteed".

Lyrics

Like the other songs on the soundtrack, "Guaranteed" is based on the story of American wanderer Christopher McCandless. After graduating as a top student from Emory University, and after a foray into the western United States and Mexico, McCandless decided to give up all of his savings and money and hitchhike to Alaska to live in the wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude. Nearly five months later, he died of poison-induced starvation near Denali National Park and Preserve. Director Sean Penn said that as soon as he heard the song he "just felt that for sure this is the musical voice of (actor) Emile (Hirsch's) character."Cohen, Jonathan. [http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2638530120071027?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0 "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the "Wild" things are"] . Reuters. October 26, 2007.] Eddie Vedder has said that the lyrics "Don't come closer or I'll have to go/Owning me like gravity are places that pull/If ever there was someone to keep me at home/It would be you" are for McCandless' sister, Carine.

Reception

Vedder won a 2008 Golden Globe Award for "Guaranteed". [cite web|url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/year/2007 |title=65th Golden Globe Awards Nominations & Winners |accessdate=2008-01-13 |publisher=goldenglobes.org] "Guaranteed" was also nominated for the 2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Song, [cite web| url=http://www.bfca.org/NomineesWinners.asp |title=BFCA Nominees/Winners |publisher=bfca.org |accessdate=2008-02-20] a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, [cite web| url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2008/grammys.htm |title=43rd Grammy Awards - 2008 |publisher=Rockonthenet.com |accessdate=2008-02-20] and a 2008 World Soundtrack Award in the category of Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. [cite web| url=http://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/news.cgi?go=detail&id=70 |title=Nominees World Soundtrack Awards 2008 announced |publisher=worldsoundtrackawards.com |accessdate=2008-08-20]

Music video

". January 3, 2008.] It features Vedder in a dark room performing the song amid a series of floating still images from "Into the Wild".

Live performances

The song was premiered live by Vedder at an "Into the Wild" post-screening party on the Paramount Pictures lot on November 2, 2007. [Gallo, Phil. [http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2007/11/eddie-vedder-de.html "Eddie Vedder Debuts 'Wild' Songs"] . "Variety". November 2, 2007.] He would go on to perform the song on his 2008 solo tour. [ [http://www.twofeetthick.com/tft/cc2008ev.action "2008 Eddie Vedder Concert Chronology"] . TwoFeetThick.com.]

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