Bleed It Out
| Bleed it out | |
|---|---|
| Linkin Park | |
| publication | August 14, 2007 |
| length | 2:44 (album version) 2:51 (single version) |
| Genre (s) |
Alternative metal , rap metal |
| Author (s) | Linkin Park |
| album | Minutes to Midnight |
Bleed It Out is a song by the American alternative metal band Linkin Park . The song was released as the second single from the album Minutes to Midnight . The song was produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda . It was released by the Warner Bros. label. The single went platinum in the US and was # 44 in Rolling Stone magazine's '100 Best Songs of 2007' .
Background and composition
Besides Hands Held High, Bleed It Out is the only song from the album Minutes to Midnight that contains rap . These two songs, as well as Given Up, are also the first to contain swear words, giving the album a Parental Advisory sticker. Bleed It Out also shows a lot of parallels to the earlier single Faint , so both are based on guitar riffs , use quick changes between vocals and rap (which is the case with most of the older songs), are relatively short and both are about frustration.
The booklet says that the band had a lot of fun writing Bleed It Out , but they had to keep tweaking the lyrics until they thought it was perfect. The first line ( And here we go for the hundredth time , in German roughly: And now for the hundredth time ) relates to this work process.
Live the track is usually expanded, either with a drum solo or a few lines from other songs. A Place For My Head , Burning in the Skies , No Roads Left , Reading My Eyes , Papercut , There They Go (by Fort Minor ), Sabotage (a Beastie Boys cover, in honor of Adam Yauch, who died in 2012 ) have already been awarded. and Harlem Shake (from Baauer ) are used. Sometimes there are combinations.
Bleed It Out is often played at the end of the concert or before the encore .
Music video
The music video was produced by Joe Hahn . It premiered on July 31, 2007 on MTV Germany and MTV Asia. In the United States, the video was first shown on August 6, 2007. In the video you see the band performing on a stage in a bar , a fight is going on around them. This is all shown backwards so that at the end you can find out how the fight started. In 2008 it also won the MuchMusic Video Award for “Best International Video - Group”.
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
40 (10 weeks) | 10 |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
43 (10 weeks) | 10 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
42 (9 weeks) | 9 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
29 (8 weeks) | 8th |
 United States (Billboard)
|
52 (20 weeks) | 20th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Search mask for gold and platinum awards. riaa.com (English) accessed January 30, 2011
- ↑ Rolling Stone Magazine The 100 Best Songs Of 2007 . ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pop Crunch, December 13, 2007
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
