Listen to the new songs from Eddie Vedder and Jennifer Castle

The soundtrack to the third season of The bear features Eddie Vedder’s new cover of The English Beat’s “Save It for Later.” While the original was a bouncy ska song with a strong upbeat and staccato violin in the background, the Pearl Jam frontman has slowed down the tempo and pared back the instrumentation to put more focus on the lyrics and the emotion in his voice, making 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’s also kept the saxophone solo.

“Save It for Later” is a leitmotif that runs throughout The bear. Rolling Stones The review of the season points out that different interpretations of the song often capture the emotions of scenes in which Ayo Edebiri’s character Sydney Adamu is faced with change. (The other motif, according to the review, is the Beastie Boys, who provide the soundtrack for the meatiest scenes surrounding the beef.) The bear However, according to Setlist.fm, Vedder has already performed the beat song with Pearl Jam and as a solo artist in Italy in 2017.

Dave Wakeling of The Beat wrote “Save It for Later” as a teenager, long before the band formed. “It was about going from being a teenager to being a 20-year-old and realising that the effortless promise of the teenage years wasn’t necessarily going to show that life was so easy when you started growing up,” he told Songfacts. “So it was about being lost… and there were all kinds of people telling you this, that and the other and giving you advice, and it didn’t seem like they knew any better. So it was like, ‘Keep your advice to yourself. Save it for later.'”

Another notable song in the new season of The bear is “Blowing Kisses” by Jennifer Castle, who is friends with The Bears Matty Matheson dates back to a time when they both worked together in the same restaurant in their twenties. The song appears in the penultimate episode of the season.

“‘Blowing Kisses’ is a love letter sent from the immediate presence of the moment,” Castle said in a statement. “Language can be so futile; I always hate to explain myself, and yet my love for you makes me try, my hands gesticulating on an endless loop. One day I will no longer be here to worship the buoyancy of the blue lake. I am carried by the loving energy of God. Every rose has its thorns, that’s true, but let’s focus on the rose for now.”