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Meteora (Music)

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Meteora is the second studio album by Linkin Park, released on March 25, 2003. The album continued the nu metal style established by their wildly successful debut Hybrid Theory, but also saw the exploration of other genres, most notably a blend of electronic music and alternative rock that they would explore later on in their career.The album was a monster hit, producing five singles: "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Breaking the Habit", "From the Inside", and "Numb". It is tied with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication for the most weeks an album's singles have peaked at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. Critics praised the more melodic aspects of the songs and noted that the band straddled the Lighter and Softer themes with their characteristic angst very well.However, it still wasn't quite the massive success that Hybrid Theory was, likely due to nu metal falling out of style. As a result, this would be their last album to feature nu metal, with its follow-up Minutes to Midnight going more for a U2-esque, arena-ready sound, while A Thousand Suns and Living Things continued their experimentation with electronics. They wouldn't fully return to their metal sound until The Hunting Party, 11 years later.Nonetheless, Meteora is widely considered a classic by Linkin Park fans who view it as a worthy successor to Hybrid Theory. Since its release, it has sold over 7 million copies in the United States, giving it a 7x platinum certification, and it has sold over 27 million copies worldwide.Doesn't have anything to do with a half-human-half-monster and rightful Princess of Mewni.
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Mission-Pack Sequel
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Mission-Pack Sequel: Apart from a little experimentation here and there, it's the only Linkin Park album that's not a New Sound Album.
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bitch: "Lying From You" is about being in a horrible relationship to a girlfriend who manipulated him into being there.
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Broken Ace
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Broken Ace: "Numb" could refer to a person who is collapsing under the weight of their own ambition or expectations:
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Stock Sound Effects
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Stock Sound Effects: "Foreword" has the sound of falling rain, hammering, and breaking glass recreated in a studio. Mike stated in a blog post that it was actually him destroying a CD burner that kept malfunctioning during recording.
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Be Yourself
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Be Yourself: "Numb" is from the perspective of someone pretending to be someone else to fit in, and wanting to be their true self.
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette: While mostly nu-metal mixed with rap and rock, the album features three different songs that stand out from the rest: "Breaking the Habit", an electronic rock song with no nu metal influences, "Nobody's Listening", a hip-hop based track that combines rap with doom metal and a Japanese flute, and "Session", a trip hop instrumental.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: At the end of the "Numb" music video, the girl who fails at everything rushes to the church to find the band, only to find that they have disappeared. Could overlap with Have You Seen My God?
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: "Somewhere I Belong", which is about realizing your mistakes and moving back to where you belong. Also "Easier to Run", about a person who is too weak to face the consequences of his actions, but must do so anyways.
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Step Up to the Microphone
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Step Up to the Microphone: While it doesn't feature any singing, "Session" features Joe Hahn's turntablism more prominently than any other track on the record.
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Album Intro Track
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Album Intro Track: "Foreword", which sets up the urban, digital atmosphere of the album and directly transitions into "Don't Stay".
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Three Chords and the Truth
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Three Chords and the Truth: The accompanying booklet lists sophisticated production measures the band took for most of the songs; however, for "Numb", the band admitted that the song was largely based around the hook, and that there weren't many difficulties with putting it together.
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Metal Scream
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Metal Scream: Chester delivers a good one in "Lying from You" while Shinoda raps over it.
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: Referenced in "Nobody's Listening", where Mike says he's grateful for the struggles he faced because they gave him inspiration for his lyrics:
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Non-Appearing Title
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Non-Appearing Title: "Faint", "Figure.09", and (obviously) "Session".
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Instrumentals
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Instrumentals: "Session", a trip hop instrumental based around Joe Hahn's sampling and scratching similar to Hybrid Theory's "Cure for the Itch", which received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental.
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"I Want" Song
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"I Want" Song: Overlaps with "Somewhere" Song; "Somewhere I Belong", which is about someone longing for a namesake place of belonging to escape from their emotional pain.
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The Cassandra
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The Cassandra: Mike Shinoda's part in "Faint".
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Lyric Swap
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Lyric Swap: "Figure.09" changes "I let myself become you" to "I let myself become lost inside these thoughts of you" for one iteration.
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Rhyming with Itself
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Rhyming with Itself: The very opening of "Nobody's Listening". Also, from "Easier to Run":
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Back to Front
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Back to Front: The video for "Breaking the Habit" is largely told in reverse, beginning with the sad culmination of each character's fate, before reversing time and showing how each character got there. It ends with The Reveal that the dead guy who jumped off the building is in fact Chester, and it shows his impulse to have committed suicide at numerous times in his life.
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The Four Chords of Pop
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The Four Chords of Pop: "Numb."
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Gratuitous Rap
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Gratuitous Rap: Inverted for "Figure.09", where the band decided to keep the rapping verses over the singing since it sounded better.
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Playing the Victim Card
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Playing the Victim Card: The 20th Anniversary Edition has "More the Victim", which refers to people in real life who victimize themselves.
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Bully Hunter
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Bully Hunter: "Hit the Floor" is about fighting against one's bully, knocking them off their pedestal:
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Animated Music Video
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Animated Music Video: Done for "Breaking the Habit".
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Break-Up Song
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Break-Up Song: "Don't Stay":
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False Utopia
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False Utopia: The music video for "From the Inside" features one where everyone pretends to be non-confrontational, when in reality they do so because they are masking their feelings in fear of police brutality.
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You Are What You Hate
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You Are What You Hate: "Figure.09" is about hating someone so much that you gradually become similar to that person and only realizing it when it's already too late:
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Speedy Techno Remake
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Speedy Techno Remake: "Faint" was originally an acoustic, slower song with a different hook. Mike remixed it, used sampled sounds, and sped up the riff to turn it into the faster version that became a hit.
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Angst
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Angst: The album is full of it.
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Genre Mashup
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Genre Mashup: Mixes nu-metal, rap, and rock in a mainstream-friendly package, all while experimenting with other genres along the way.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: "Meteora", "Session", "Numb", "Faint".
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Nu Metal
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Nu Metal: The last Linkin Park album to be in this genre, at least until The Hunting Party was released over a decade later.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: "Breaking the Habit" is about overcoming personal addiction. Interesting to note, while it may seem like a confession relating to Chester's Dark and Troubled Past, it was actually written entirely by Shinoda about the addiction of a close friend with no input from Chester, who broke down when he read Shinoda's lyrics.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: The weird hybrid mammoth animal in the video for "Somewhere I Belong" shows up as a symbolic representation of majesty and loneliness in the video.
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Design Student's Orgasm
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Design Student's Orgasm: The booklet features a ton of graphic art and anime-inspired collages largely crated by Mike Shinoda. The man on the album's cover is Boris "Delta" Tellegen, a street artist who helped Mike create the album's art.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: Undertones of this in "Numb."
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Rap Metal
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Rap Metal: All the songs minus "Breaking the Habit", "Don't Stay", "Session", and "Numb" involve raps by Shinoda.
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Vocal Tag Team
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Vocal Tag Team: Bennington and Shinoda in every song minus "Breaking the Habit" (sung entirely by Chester) and "Session" (an instrumental).
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Fading into the Next Song
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Fading into the Next Song: The entire album is entirely gapless, save for the lack of segue between "Session" and "Numb", with most transitions either being almost split-second or very conspicuous. The most notable transitions are: "Foreword" to "Don't Stay" to "Somewhere I Belong" "Easier to Run" to "Faint" "Figure.09" to "Breaking the Habit" to "From the Inside"
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Creepy Child
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Creepy Child: The kid with Psychic Powers in the music video for "From the Inside".
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: "Easier to Run" is about doing anything and everything to forget one's unfortunate memories. It also has shades of I Hate Past Me.
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