| Vanilla Sky | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Paul McCartney |
| Album: | Vanilla Sky (Music from the Motion Picture) |
| Released: | 4 December 2001 |
| Studio: | Henson, Hollywood |
| Length: | 2:46 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | David Kahne |
| Prev Title: | Freedom |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | Tropic Island Hum |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
"Vanilla Sky" is a song written and recorded by Paul McCartney for the 2001 film of the same name.[1]
McCartney was in Los Angeles working on his album Driving Rain when director Cameron Crowe came by to ask if he would write a song for his new movie.
He showed us about a half-hour of and they look very intriguing with Tom [Cruise] acting his heart out. I said “What’s the title?”. He said “Vanilla Sky”. I said “Oh, that’s the nice title” and immediately you start thinking or rhymes with sky- fly… You know, it starts to kick off into something doesn’t look too difficult.McCartney says he got inspiration from a waiter in a restaurant:- Paul McCartney
Before the first course he brought something we hadn’t ordered. He said “Here’s amuse-bouche”. I said “What is he talking about? Music bushi?”. My limited knowledge of French I kind of worked out that he meant like a sort of palate pleaser or something. So that became the first line of the song- “The chef prepares a special menu”. It’s gonna be “The chef prepares amuse-bouche”, but I never even pronounce that well I work in the song.It only took McCartney about a week to finish the track:
I just recorded it and had Cameron over and said “What do you think of this?”. He said “I love it”.[2]
The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song,[1] for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and for a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song, winning the latter.
A live version of the song is featured on the 2002 live album Back in the U.S..