Somewhere I Belong
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| "Somewhere I Belong" | ||
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| Single by Linkin Park | ||
| from the album Meteora | ||
| Released | March 2003 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 2003 | |
| Genre | Nu-Metal | |
| Length | 3 min 34 s | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Don Gilmore | |
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| Linkin Park singles chronology | ||
| "Frgt/10" (2002) |
"Somewhere I Belong" (2003) |
"Faint" (2003) |
| Meteora track listing | ||
| "Don't Stay" (2) |
"Somewhere I Belong" (3) |
"Lying From You" (4) |
"Somewhere I Belong" is a song by the Nu metal band Linkin Park. It is the third regular track from their 2003 album Meteora.
It was released as a single in the same year.
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[edit] Song
The band wrote over 40 different versions of the chorus, each time rewriting to get the sound right.
The opening sample is a clip of Chester Bennington playing guitar, which was reversed before being cut up so that the chord progression remained intact by Mike Shinoda. It was made a long time before the rest of the album. There is a clip in Frat Party at the Pankake Festival (which was released in 2001) that shows Mike Shinoda playing the sample.
Despite the fact that this song is only 3 minutes and 34 seconds, it is the longest song on Meteora.
Interview with Mike Shinoda,March 2003 ShoutWeb:
"Somewhere I Belong" is the single. It started out with an interesting sample. Actually, the first thing you hear in the song is a sample. Now, the sample sounds like keyboards but what it is really, is a guitar progression Chester played.
And this is just to give you an idea. It just shows the evolution of parts. The guitar part that Chester played had a cool progression to it but the sound of it was too acoustic guitar. So what we did was, we flipped it backwards. We effected it. I cut it up into four pieces and instead of arranging it 1-2-3-4, I arranged it 4-3-2-1 because it had been reversed. So it evolved into this thing with the different manipulations in the computer. It evolved into this thing that it is now. In fact, you can hear an early version of that on our "Party At The Pancake Festival" DVD. That's the DVD that came out over a year ago. There's a version of that towards the end of the DVD that's playing. You kind of get an idea of what it sounded like in the second stage of it's lifetime and now it's at it's third when we finished it. So that song is cool for that reason.
Another cool thing about it is that it's really the first time you hear some optimistic views, some optimistic lyrics from us. I think that lyrically this album is a little older, a little more mature hopefully. When we were writing a lot of songs for the first album, we're talking about writing as 18 and 19 year olds. Being 25 now, I feel like I just look at things a tiny bit differently. It doesn't really have much to do with where we're at with the success of the first album and it has everything to do with having seen some of the world and just being a little bit older. So, that's where that comes from. But you'll see overall on the album that it's still the same heavy and melodic and dynamic sound that is kind of our signature thing just with some new evolution added.
[edit] Video
Its clip, directed by Joseph Hahn, shows the band playing the song in a Salvador Dalí-style scenario. It was awarded as Best Rock Video at the 2003 MTV Awards.
[edit] Personnel
- Chester Bennington - Lead Vocals
- Mike Shinoda - Vocals (Rapping/Backup), Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard
- Brad Delson - Lead Guitar
- Dave Farrell - Bass
- Rob Bourdon - Drums
- Joe Hahn - Turntables, Samples
- Don Gilmore - Producer
[edit] Track listing
- "Somewhere I Belong" (Album Version)
- "Step Up" (Live)
- "My December" (Live)
[edit] Trivia
- 1:100 scale Gundam models of the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero from Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, the MSN-04 Sazabi from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and the RX-78GP01-Fb Gundam Full Vernian "Zephyranthes" from Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory can be seen on a shelf in the beginning of the video.
- When the bed is shown on fire the second time, a picture of what seems to be the Hybrid Theory soldier can be seen on the bed.
- Mike is at two places at once: rapping the verses outside of where the rest of the band is, and playing rhythm guitar with the band during the chorus and bridge.
- When the song was available for download on certain music download programs (such as Morpheus), it was confused with another nu-metal song from (possibly) an underground band. The song was called "Picture Frames," and the band was called "A Fallacy."
- It was the first video aired on Fuse TV.
- At the beginning of the song, there are short flashes showing a glass sliding door. It has the Chinese characters for water and fire on its handles. When Mike Shinoda is shown rapping the second verse, the waterfall behind him sparks a fire.
- The song was also listed in Australias Video Hits 2005 Top 100 Film Clips at #15
- Theres about 20 People sitting where Mike is rapping during the verses but are 'copied and pasted' to fill the remaining space.
- The people that are sitting where Mike is rapping during the verse are blowing out smoke from a cigarette
- The Canadian single dosen't contain the third track and the second one is misspelled "Set Up (Live)".
- This is the theme of The Mark Levin Show.
- During the Rock am Ring 2004 show in Germany, Linkin Park played a different intro to this song, with Brad Delson playing a guitar riff while Rob Bourdon played a new drum intro.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single April 12, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Like a Stone" by Audioslave |
