Giving In
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| “Giving In” | |||||
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| Single by Adema from the album Adema |
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| Released | 2001 | ||||
| Recorded | 2000 - 2001 in Los Angeles, CA | ||||
| Genre | Nu metal | ||||
| Length | 4:34 | ||||
| Label | Arista Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Adema | ||||
| Producer | Bill Appleberry, Tobias Miller | ||||
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"Giving In" is the first single to be released from the band, Adema's self-titled debut album. "Giving In" is mostly credited as the song that made the band famous, and has been played at most of their live shows.
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[edit] Meaning
The song appears, on the surface, to be a metaphor for drug use. Lines such as "I'm giving into you" and "Family has tried to heal all my addictions" seem to strengthen this meaning, however Mark Chavez has stated that the song is about his bout with alcoholism and depression. Chavez stated that at one point he felt he was going to lose his record deal over booze and substances. He stated that the song was a way of him letting go.
[edit] Success
"Giving In" is Adema's most successful song to date, receiving much airtime and helping sell over 600,000 copies of the debut album[citation needed]. The debut album was also their most successful album to date, which many attribute to this song[citation needed].
[edit] Music video
The music video for "Giving In" depicts the band playing, while Mark Chavez moves through different rooms, as if on a conveyor belt. Most of the band's playing takes place in what looks to be an outdoor rooftop. The rooms and scenarios that are shown while the band are playing include:
- A hotel room, with a man and a reluctant looking woman about to have sex.
- A little girl, sitting on a rocking chair watching a violent movie.
- A woman in a glass tank
As the video progresses, certain changes take place. As the man and woman have sex, people, who are apprently either invisible or are meant to be there, stand around the bed watching the couple. A car crash takes place behind the little girl. A man starts kissing the woman in the water tank.
The video ends with the woman closing the door on us.
The video was directed by Paul Fedor.
[edit] Linkin Park confusion
Many P2P file sharing programs, such as LimeWire, have Giving In down as being a collaboration between Linkin Park and Adema, despite neither Linkin Park, or Chester Bennington having any connection to the song. Many people think that lead vocalist, Mark Chavez, has a similar singing style to Bennington in this song, which may have been a springboard for such confusion.
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