Post subject: Eddie Vedder releases Music Video for Guaranteed
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:33 pm
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ED VEDDER RELEASES MUSIC VIDEO 01.03.08
Singer/songwriter Eddie Vedder appears for the first time as a solo artist in a music video for the Critics Choice-, Golden Globe- and Grammy-nominated song "Guaranteed" from the Sean Penn-directed motion picture Into the Wild.
The video, directed by critically-acclaimed writer/director Marc Rocco (Murder in the First and Where the Day Takes You) premieres January 7th at 6:00 a.m. EST on VH1 and VH1.com. Video repeats will air throughout the morning hours and online leading up to VH1's live telecast of the 13th Annual Critics Choice Awards at 9:00 p.m. EST.
Feature film writer/director Marc Rocco conceived, directed and produced the video for "Guaranteed" in just a few days - and shot the project entirely on 35 mm film in three hours - as a way for the typically video-shy Vedder to pay tribute to Sean Penn's film and Chris McCandless's journey. The video uses a series of floating, illuminated images from Into the Wild to capture Vedder's intimate and poetic performance, weaving striking silhouettes of Vedder with translit still frames from the film in a powerful and simple way.
"To me, Eddie is the most compelling musical artist of our generation," explains Rocco. "His songwriting pounds you on a visceral level and his storytelling always stands apart in the same way a great film does - each time you hear his words, they engender a different experience in your heart, soul and mind."
"It has been a privilege and honor to collaborate with Eddie in a medium that he so rarely visits. I hope that I've portrayed visually the song 'Guaranteed' in a way that leaves the viewer as emotionally moved as I was the first time I heard Eddie's music for Into the Wild."
Post subject: Re: Eddie Vedder release Music Video for Guarenteed
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:50 pm
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Vedder release Music Video for Guarenteed
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:13 pm
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jcfrank2 wrote:
conoalias wrote:
premieres January 7th at 6:00 a.m. EST
In my time zone, that's going to conflict with my favorite infomercial.
You're going to have to live with it. Clearly, VH1 is giving this video top billing!
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Vedder release Music Video for Guarenteed
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:01 pm
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Vedder release Music Video for Guarenteed
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:23 am
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sergeant wrote:
it seems like he's really trying to make a push for wins at the grammys, golden globes, etc, which seems out of character for him.
since ITW is Chris McAndless' (sp?) story and that Ed made it clear that he wanted to draw respect toward him and his family and Sean Penn's movies altogether, i feel the situation's a lot less conflicting than if it was a set of songs like "Alive" or "Thumbing My Way" which are somewhat autobiographical. and putting your face in a video for a self-titled album is kind of obligatory unless you REALLY don't want anybody to notice it comes from you - i'm really curious to watch this but i'm pretty positive that it won't be a trainwreck.
Post subject: Re: Eddie Vedder release Music Video for Guarenteed
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:21 am
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mastaflatch wrote:
sergeant wrote:
it seems like he's really trying to make a push for wins at the grammys, golden globes, etc, which seems out of character for him.
since ITW is Chris McAndless' (sp?) story and that Ed made it clear that he wanted to draw respect toward him and his family and Sean Penn's movies altogether, i feel the situation's a lot less conflicting than if it was a set of songs like "Alive" or "Thumbing My Way" which are somewhat autobiographical. and putting your face in a video for a self-titled album is kind of obligatory unless you REALLY don't want anybody to notice it comes from you - i'm really curious to watch this but i'm pretty positive that it won't be a trainwreck.
I think Mastaflatch has a good point. This is about the movie more than Eddie.
If there were aimed at the IBFC (sp?) or Globes, this would have had to have been out what... more than a month ago? The show is Monday night. This video will have NO impact on the results. This video won't have any impact on the Globes either. The show is the following week. When were the ballots due?
It might affect Oscar and Grammy, but I believe it's too late to affect anything else. I don't know if this was deliberate or just the way things worked out, but that's the effect. Ed may have had other obligations (fan club single and artwork maybe?) which came before the completion of the video. I don't know. But it doesn't appear to have been finished in time to improve his chances at these awards.
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