Linkin Park - 'Bleed It Out'
This song brings together a few threads which have run across different ChartBlog entries and comments over the past few months, for which we should all be grateful. It's almost as if the Park knew the things we all want to talk about in advance, and then tailored their creativity so's to fit the needs of an insignificant limey blog with a slight chippiness about whether it's OK to claim personal lyrics as global messages or not (go here if confused). Who knew modern music was becoming this interactive?
Here's a list of the recently ChartBlogged issues the Links have covered herein:
Is Hip Hop Real Music?
Some people don't like it when hip hop producers take a few bars of music, loop them, and call it a song. Here Linkin Park confuse the issue further by taking a few bars of their own music, playing it as if looped, and calling it a song. Rocksnobs are going to have a hard time living this down, but hip hoppers will be cool with it.
Songs With Handclaps Are Cool
No argument here. This has handclaps, and a beat straight out of classic Motown, and guitars like U2's 'I Will Follow', and it rocks.
Songs With Tambourines Are Also Cool
Seriously, there are so many sounds on this song which are 100% uplifting that even Chester Bennington's most screamiest screamy bits can't sour the mood. And he sounds as fed up as ever, even though he is singing about putting his dark times behind him, once and for all. You would think he'd be pleased.
Unhappy Music = Real Music
It says something about the post-nu metal climate (rap-spicious, is the word for it) that it seems bad to enjoy the rappy bits of this song more than the singy bits. But they really are better.
Rihanna's New Song Isn't About Cars
This isn't mentioned. But it's worth pointing it out again, for the hard of thinking...
So there we have it. Linkin Park are closet ChartBlog fans, and also a little bit psychic. Who knew?
Download: Out now
CD Released: August 20th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
I actually love this song. One of the best on their album.
And the handclaps make it so much cooler (:
I was even more confused than usual when I ambled into a room where this video was playing on the tellybox.
Mainly because it looked like the bloke from the Mars Volta had joined Coldplay to make a hippity hop tune. It was only when the shouty fella started shouting that I realised it was Linkin Bloody Park as they've been known round my way since the great rap-metal war of '97.
But, apart from the fact that they seem to have turned into POD, this is officially the first Linkin Bloody Park tune I have ever liked. Ever.
Because;
a) as we have established, handclaps are cool.
b) it is less than 3 minutes long, thus making it an actual single, and
c) because no matter how hard you try, Rihanna is a secret Kwik-Fit fitter, and your denials WILL NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH!
Which should worry them.
Yeah! That's more like it! That was awesome!
BUT...
Does anyone else feel like the piano there just doesn't belong? That annoys me.
Is Rhianna's new song... like... dir(r)ty? 'cause I thought it was about cars. My bad.
I think Nu-metal has gone full circle, I think it's cool again! But like, really cool! Even Re-animation sounds good now!
This song is brilliant. It's just like a party in a song!
I have a bone to pick with you, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr/Sir/Rabbi S Hamilton.
Linkin Park's songs are never exactly long, a few of there singles are under the 3 minute barrier such as Faint, From the Inside etc. And the one's that are over 3 mins are only just over. Papercut is 3.04 and Numb is 3.07. . . if my memory serves me correctly.
They've got more handclaps on 'Given Up' for those Handclap fans out there, plus jangly keys aswell!
i now hate this song, Radio 1 play it about 10 times a day and im now sick of it. i wake up and its on, in the car i hear it.
i used to like it, but its just been way too overplayed.