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Feeling This
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| "Feeling This" | ||
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| Single by Blink-182 | ||
| from the album Blink-182 | ||
| Released | November 10, 2003 USA November 24, 2003 UK |
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| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | ?? | |
| Genre | Alternative Rock [1] | |
| Length | 2 min 55 sec | |
| Label | Geffen Records | |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Finn | |
| Blink-182 singles chronology | ||
| "Stay Together for the Kids" (2002) |
"Feeling This" (2003) |
"I Miss You" (2004) |
"Feeling This" is the first single from Blink 182's Blink-182 album. The single was released in November 2003. The single had been released previously as part of the soundtrack for the video game Madden NFL 2004 under the name "Action". True to the evolution of the band, the song is a lot more mature lyrically and musically than many of their previous releases. The end of the song is a melodic duet between the two lead singers, both singing conflicting but harmonising parts while the intro phrase 'get ready for action' is taken from the Captain America film of the 1990's.
In an interview, Blink's drummer Travis Barker explains the confusion with the actual name of the song. "'Action' just sounded kind of dorky to us. Like we would always call it "Feeling This" and then someone at our label, I think, like wrote it as "Action" one time and sent out singles to people. And it was always supposed to be "Feeling This." [2]
The song was written for having Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge go into separate rooms without talking to each other. When they came out they realized they had both written about sex. When they put it together, the song represents the lustful side of sex on the verses, the passionate side in the bridge and the romantic side in the chorus.
It is also present on Blink-182's Greatest Hits album.
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The so-requested, satirical and suggestive music video shows incarcerated, uniformed teens breaking out of some sort of juvenile hall and going to the recreation area to watch Blink-182 play the song inside a cage. Two teens are focused upon in the beginning as they undress to their underwear and make out - with an isolation window between them. The video's imagery and themes of youthful rebellion against mean, uncompromising authority figures heavily evoke Pink Floyd's hit song "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2." The video was directed by David LaChapelle.
- "Feeling This"
- "Violence"
- "The Rock Show" (Live in Chicago)
- "Carousel" (Live in Chicago)
- This was the first video which shows Tom Delonge's new Gibson signature guitar. However, Hoppus is still using his Fender Prescion signature bass.
- Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this on his 2004 album "I'd Like a Virgin".
- ^ http://www.muchmusic.com/music/artists/index.asp?artist=52
- ^ Travis Barker Interview. thepunksite.com. Retrieved on August 22, 2007.
| Blink-182 |
| Travis Barker | Tom DeLonge | Mark Hoppus |
| Scott Raynor |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: Cheshire Cat | Dude Ranch | Enema of the State | Take off Your Pants and Jacket | Blink-182 |
| Demo tapes: Flyswatter | Buddha |
| Live Albums and compilations: The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) | Greatest Hits |
| Videos and DVDs: The Urethra Chronicles | The Urethra Chronicles II: Harder Faster Faster Harder | Riding In Vans With Boys | Greatest Hits |
| Related articles |
| Box Car Racer | Transplants | +44 | Angels and Airwaves | Expensive Taste |
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