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Numb (Linkin Park song)
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| Single by Linkin Park from the album Meteora |
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| Released | September 8, 2003 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||
| Genre | Nu metal | ||||
| Length | 3:07 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Writer | Linkin Park | ||||
| Producer | Don Gilmore | ||||
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"Numb" is the thirteenth and final song on the 2003 album Meteora by the rock band Linkin Park, and is also the album's third single.
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Numb talks about someone who has lost himself and forgotten who he is due to the fact that other people are pressuring him into being what they want him to be. The song is being told supposedly by a young person, as the music video shows several scenes centred around a young girl and her family.
Numb has been interpreted as being about how young people (mainly pre-teens, teenagers) feel pressure in being able to live up to many expectations, especially relatives (most likely parents). The lyrics 'all I want to do; is be more like me and be less like you' show the much demanded freedom that most underage people would like. The message brought out from the bridge tell about the hardships that the directed person has felt.
This song, like "My December" and "Crawling," features Mike Shinoda's rapping for a very short time: in fact, Mike only has one line of rap which is repeated throughout the song (although he does sing backup when the song is performed live). The line is "Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow" also at the end in live performances, he sings "I'm tired of being what you want me to be".
"Numb" was later used in a mash-up single along with Jay-Z's "Encore" from his 2003 album (The Black Album). The end result was Numb / Encore, on their collaborative 2004 album Collision Course, and released as a single in the same year. "Numb / Encore" was awarded as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, at the Grammy Awards of 2006, and later a popular underground remix of the song Numb/Encore and the song Encore/Curtains Down by Eminem featuring 50 Cent and Dr. Dre was released by Dr. Dre on his Look Out For Detox and Dretox Mixtapes.
Jay-Z and Linkin Park later performed "Numb / Encore" at the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia, PA in 2005. Linkin Park also performed "Numb" at the Live Earth concert in Tokyo in July 2007.
This song was released in two different singles: "Numb Pt. 1" and "Numb Pt. 2". They differed in color - "Numb Pt. 1" is white, while "Numb Pt. 2" is blue - and track listing. The cover of "Numb Pt. 1" is shown on the right.
Despite being featured in the teaser, trailers and in the film's opening sequence, the Collision Course mash-up mix Numb / Encore does not appear on the Miami Vice movie soundtrack. However, it is played at the beginning of the film inside a dance club.
An unofficial techno remix of Numb has currently been leaked into the internet, as well as a piano version.
The song was also covered by the British artist Jamelia.
Later in mid 2004, Brad Delson introduces a new heavy guitar riff intro.
Numb was the most successful single from Meteora, reaching #11 on The Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on both Mainstream and Modern Rock charts. In chart success and popularity, "Numb" is surpassed only by "In The End" and "What I've Done" within the band's hit singles.
Directed by Joe Hahn, the indoor scenes of the video is set in a church in Los Angeles, while the outdoor scenes are set in Prague, the Czech Republic. The school interiors, the classroom, the corridor and the outside playground are set in the Johannes Kepler's Gymnasium in Prague. This was done because Chester was ill. The music video follows the troubles of a young, alienated female student at school as well as her problems with her parents - particularly her mother - at home. The girl apparently spends her time drawing pictures, showing that she wants to be an artist. She is largely ignored and ridiculed at school, considering that when she is told off by the teacher for drawing in class everybody laughs at her, when she trips on the stairs nobody stops to help her up, and the fact that when she tries to join a group of girls at a lunch table they immediately get up and leave. At the end of the video, the girl runs into the church that the band was singing in, almost as if she heard them.
The video has accumulated more than 7,640,098 views, favorited more than 47,047 times, it has received 6 honors (#96 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Music #22 - Top Rated (All Time) #18 - Top Rated (All Time) - Music #87 - Most Discussed (All Time) - Music #77 - Top Favorites (All Time) #55 - Top Favorites (All Time)), as well as more than 14,950 comments on YouTube. It is ranked with 4 stars, and has been rated 3,356 times on YouTube.
- "Numb"
- "From The Inside" (Live)
- "Numb" (CD-ROM music video)
- "Numb"
- "Easier To Run" (Live)
- "Faint" music video (CD-ROM music video)
| Preceded by "So Far Away" by Staind |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single November 22, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Hit That" by The Offspring |