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"Bleed It Out" is the second single from Linkin Park's third studio album, Minutes to Midnight, released on August 20, 2007.
On July 31, 2007 the music video was shown on MTV Germany and MTV Asia and has premiered in Canada through the Muchmusic Countdown and their MuchAxs video streaming website. This song was #44 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. This song was also #83 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
ed It Out" is the first of two tracks on the album to contain rap vocals from Mike Shinoda, with the other being "Hands Held High".
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"Bleed It Out" is the second single from Linkin Park's third studio album, Minutes to Midnight, released on August 20, 2007.
On July 31, 2007 the music video was shown on MTV Germany and MTV Asia and has premiered in Canada through the Muchmusic Countdown and their MuchAxs video streaming website. This song was #44 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. This song was also #83 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
Background information
"Bleed It Out" is the first of two tracks on the album to contain rap vocals from Mike Shinoda, with the other being "Hands Held High". It is also the second track of the 3 songs in the album to contain profanity, with "Given Up" being the first and "Hands Held High" the third.
The structure of "Bleed It Out" is similar to the structure of the band's earlier hit, "Faint". They are both fairly short songs, have rapped verses and a sung chorus and bridge, and are both about the theme of frustration. The booklet for Minutes to Midnight says that the song was largely about the band simply following their mandate of "Enjoy the process" (of making the album).
The main guitar riff of "Bleed It Out" which repeats throughout a majority of the song came as a result of guitarist Brad Delson playing a note incorrectly, thus explaining the song's working title of "Accident".
In the album booklet, Mike Shinoda stated that the lyrics to this track were difficult to perfect, as he re-wrote the lyrics to this song about a "hundred times" until the band was satisfied with them. The song is the shortest track on Minutes to Midnight, besides the instrumental intro, "Wake". Therefore in live performances, including Projekt Revolution, Linkin Park has extended the song making it about three times longer, while focusing on Rob Bourdon, the band's drummer. In Road to Revolution, the song also comprises a singing contest led by Chester and Mike which is omitted in the CD version as well as Wake.2.
It was first performed live during the show at Webster Hall in New York City on May 11, 2007. Other notable live performances of the song include when it was performed in Tokyo on July 7, 2007 and broadcast as part of Live Earth, The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, as well as when it was performed on the May 12, 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live. Linkin Park also performed the song at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, with an added hip-hop intro to the song by Timbaland, as well as various laser effects during the performance.
Music video
The song's music video was directed by Joe Hahn and premiered on July 31, 2007 on MTV Germany. The music video was premiered in the United States on August 6, 2007 all day long on MTV2's "Unleashed". It also had a premiere on TRL the same day as MTV2's "Unleashed". It debuted at number 27 on the Muchmusic Countdown on August 3. Although the actual CD track features footsteps leading into an opening door followed by the band performing the song in front of a small audience clapping along (recorded by the band at a bar), the video is much different, as it is just one continuous, moving shot with the band performing on a small stage in front of a reversed bar fight scene. Some of the video was made from green screen while the band is performing on stage in the music video. The video starts as the fight is ending, and at the end of the video, it is revealed that a person vomited on another person's shoe, which started the massive fight.
The video was named Muchmusic's #1 Rock video of 2007 during their annual Holiday Wrap specialty program series. Also, at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards, Bleed It Out won for Best International Video - Group.
Track listings
Digital Single
CD 1
CD 2 (Maxi / AU Single)
Chart performance
The song ranked in music charts even before its official release. The song peaked at #52 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 and #54 on the Billboard Pop 100. Although the song is the band's first charting single on Modern Rock Tracks to not reach the #1 spot since "Pts.Of.Athrty" in 2002 stalled at #29, it did however hold the #2 spot on the chart for ten consecutive weeks, being held off from the #1 spot by the Foo Fighters's "The Pretender". It also reached #3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. In the UK, it debuted and peaked at #29. It made the top thirty in Australia, Canada, Poland and Israel. Though it has overall been less successful than the first single from Minutes to Midnight, "What I've Done", it has surpassed "What I've Done"'s peak in New Zealand, where it reached #7.
Edited version
On the edited version one curse word is used, however two words were censored on MTV and VH1, "fucking" and "noose", "fucking" is censored more strictly and the word "noose" is censored, though it was not censored on the edited version of the album.
Live performances
"Bleed It Out" has been mostly known as the last song in most concerts Linkin Park hold today. This includes a slow chorus breakdown at the end of the concert, and most notably, drummer Rob Bourdon's long and entertaining drum solo.
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