Breaking the Habit

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"Breaking the Habit"
"Breaking the Habit" cover
Single by Linkin Park
from the album Meteora
Released June 2004
Format CD
Recorded 2003
Genre Nu metal
Length 3 min 16 s
Label Warner Brothers Records
Producer(s) Don Gilmore
Chart positions
Linkin Park singles chronology
"Lying From You"
(2004)
"Breaking The Habit"
(2004)
"Numb / Encore"
(2004)

"Breaking the Habit" is a Drum and Bass influenced song by the Nu metal band Linkin Park, from their 2003 album Meteora. It was released as a single in 2004.

"Breaking The Habit" is one of the few Linkin Park songs which doesn't feature either Mike Shinoda's rapping nor Brad Delson's heavy guitar riffs.

A common misconception about this song is that it was written about lead singer Chester Bennington, when in fact, band member Mike Shinoda had been working on the song since 1997, when Mark Wakefield was still the band's lead vocalist. The reason for this misconception is largely due to Bennington's history of sexual abuse and drug use. However, the song is mostly ambiguous and not based on any specific "habit."

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[edit] Music Video

Its music video, co-directed by Joe Hahn and Kazuto Nakazawa, uses an anime-style animation. The video was shot of the band performing the song and was later rotoscoped. The animation style is tied closely to Kid's Story from The Animatrix (2003) and the animated segment from Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003). This video won the 2004 MTV VMA Viewer's Choice Award.

The video itself was created by renowned anime studio GONZO.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Breaking the Habit"
  2. "Crawling" (Live)

[edit] Bonus

  1. "Breaking the Habit" 03:15 (CD-ROM Music Video)

[edit] Trivia

  • Chester's face can be seen 29 times before the final scene of the entire band playing.
  • The song has appeared on Linkin Park Underground 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 live, all of which start with a piano introduction.
Preceded by:
"Just Like You" by Three Days Grace
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
August 28, 2004
Succeeded by:
"American Idiot" by Green Day

[edit] External links

Linkin Park
Chester Bennington - Rob Bourdon - Brad Delson - Dave Farrell - Joe Hahn - Mike Shinoda
Scott Belsha (stand-in) - Mark Wakefield - Kyle Christener (stand-in) - Scott Koziol (stand-in)
Discography
Albums and extended play: Hybrid Theory EP - Hybrid Theory - In The End: Live & Rare - Reanimation - Meteora - Live in Texas - Collision Course EP - T------ and T------
Singles: "One Step Closer" - "Crawling" - "Papercut" - "In the End" - "It's Goin' Down" - "Pts.of.Athrty" - "Frgt/10" - "Somewhere I Belong" - "Faint" - "Numb" - "From the Inside" - "Lying From You" - "Breaking the Habit" - "Numb / Encore"
Videography
DVDs: Frat Party at the Pankake Festival - Live in Texas - Breaking the Habit
Related articles
Bands/Groups: Relative Degree - Xero - Tasty Snax - Grey Daze - Fort Minor - Snow White Tan - The X-Ecutioners
Other: Linkin Park Underground - Machine Shop Recordings - Morning After


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