‘The Bear’ Soundtrack: Hear Eddie Vedder and Jennifer Castle’s Moving New Songs

The soundtrack to the third season of The Bear features Eddie Vedder’s new cover of the English Beat’s “Save It for Later.” Where the original song was a buoyant ska song with a strong upbeat and staccato violin in the background, the Pearl Jam frontman has slowed the tempo and dialed back the instrumentation to place more focus on the lyrics and the emotion in his voice, which makes it more convincing when he sings the overwhelmingly British line “I don’t know how I’m meant to act with all of you lot.” He kept the sax solo, too.

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“Save It for Later” is a motif throughout The Bear . Rolling Stone’s review of the season notes that different renditions of the song frequently tap the emotion of scenes that feature Ayo Edebiri’s character, Sydney Adamu, facing change. (The other motif, according to the review, is the Beastie Boys, who soundtrack the beefiest scenes around the Beef.) Prior to The Bear soundtrack, though, Vedder has had a history of performing the Beat song with Pearl Jam and once as a solo artist in Italy in 2017, according to Setlist.fm .

The Beat’s Dave Wakeling wrote “Save It for Later” as a teenager, long before the band formed. “It was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up,” he told Songfacts . “So it was about being lost … and you’d have all sorts of people telling you this, that, and the other, and advising you, and it didn’t actually seem like they knew any better. So it was like, ‘Keep your advice to yourself. Save it for later.'”

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Another notable song in the new season of The Bear is “Blowing Kisses” by Jennifer Castle, who is friends with The Bear’s Matty Matheson dating back to a time when they both worked at the same restaurant together in their 20s. The song appears in the season’s next-to-last episode.

“‘Blowing Kisses’ is a love letter sent from the very front of the occurring present moment,” Castle said in a statement. “Language can be so futile; I always loathe explaining myself, and yet my love for you makes me want to try, my hands gesturing in endless loop. One day I will no longer be here to revere the buoyancy of the blue lake. I’m held by the loving energy of God. Every rose has its thorn, truly, but let’s focus on the rose for now.”

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