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Blogging about videos: Golden Globe edition

Published 4:12 pm Thursday, December 13, 2007

The nominees for the 2008 Golden Globes were announced today, with the best original song category including tunes performed by everything from a grunge rocker to a fictional princess.

Are the tracks worthy of that most estimable of awards, a Grammy Oscar Golden Globe? You be the judge.

But first, a couple caveats:

  • I can’t find the song “Grace is Gone” anywhere, not even to stream the music. The nominated tune, from the movie of the same name, is performed by pianist Jamie Cullum and was co-written by Clint Eastwood. It should not to be confused with the Dave Matthews Band song of the same name.
  • Eddie Vedder, shocker, has yet to release a video for “Guaranteed,” the nominated song from “Into the Wild.”

    • Now — onward!

    Shakira — “Despedida” — Live performance

    Shakira, a friend of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, made her first foray into film music for the screen adaption of Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

    “It was refreshing, because it allowed me to leave the pop universe for a moment and not think about the Top 10 on the radio … .” she told the Los Angeles Times. “And simply not think. To just let the sensibility flow from those stories, let those Garcia Marquez metaphors connect with the deepest part of me, and allow the music to be born from all of that.”

    John C. Reilly/Dewey Cox — “Walk Hard” — Film clips/video

    Dewey Cox, a country rock star played by John C. Reilly in the comedy “Walk Hard,” seems to get the inspiration for this song while having an argument with his wife.

    “You have got to give up this dream,” she tells him.

    “It ain’t easy to walk to the top of a mountain,” he says. “It’s a long hard walk. But I will. Walk. Hard.”

    And… cue epiphany.

    Amy Adams/Giselle — “That’s How You Know” — Film clip

    Amy Adams plays a princess that gets stuck in New York City in “Enchanted.” Here, she sings the Golden Globe nominated song “That’s How You Know,” the movie’s go-for-broke number. Basically, the song involves the bubbly princess counselling Patrick McDreamy Dempsey, playing a down-to-earth lawyer, on his love life.

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