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Minutes to Midnight (Music)
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Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by Linkin Park, released in 2007. The album marked a definitive shift in the band's repertoire in many ways, spurred on by the band members' desire to experiment in the studio.Following the nu metal sound of their successful first two albums (Hybrid Theory, Meteora) steadily falling out of style nearing the end of the 2000s, Minutes marked the band's first foray away from that genre and towards arena-ready alternative rock and metal, overseen by record producer Rick Rubin. As such, the instrumentation used in songs is generally lighter, and lead vocalist Mike Shinoda embraces singing and harmonizing over his traditional rapping.Further unique characteristics of Minutes include its political themes, revolving around the Doomsday Clock (which inspired the album's name), environmentalism, The War on Terror, and social unrest, which helped transition the band members into a more mature phase in their development. The recurring concerns of betrayal and loss helped keep the subject matter consistent with the band's previous work. The album also contains profanity unlike its predecessors, which made it the band's first full-length album to receive a Parental Advisory label.While Minutes became a massive hit, debuting at #1 in 15 countries, the change in the band's style heavily split their fanbase, and remains a point of mild division in their history considering they would only experiment further with alternative influences in future releases. Older listeners who loved their work in nu metal thought the band had sold out, while others who enjoyed softer rock and may not have had an entry point to the band embraced the newer direction. | |
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Darker and Edgier: Not so much in music or style, but in lyrical content. The lyrics to "Hands Held High" are notably pretty angry, with swear words: | |
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Protest Song: The video for "What I've Done" is very moving, as it juxtaposes various hate groups, nuclear bombings, and starving people with freedom fighters, peacemakers, and the privileged elite. "Hands Held High" protests The War on Terror. It is rumored that "The Little Things Give You Away" is about the Bush Administration's delayed response to Hurricane Katrina, though this has not been confirmed by the band. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Very much so. This led to their decline in popularity, even though they broke out of their niche to appeal to a wider fanbase. It was also a "new technique album," where the band abandoned their usual songwriting practice of recording the songs as individual productions, then figuring out how to play them live, and wrote songs based on jam sessions. | |
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Atomic F-Bomb: Found at the end of the bridge of "Given Up". | |
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Doomsday Clock | |
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Doomsday Clock: The title of the album stems from this. While they didn't really get into their concerns toward nuclear warfare until the following album, A Thousand Suns, the video for "Shadow of the Day" references this amid political unrest. The opening features Chester waking up at 11:55 pm and proceeding to go out, and the song is just under five minutes long. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: A black-and-white, shadowy picture of the band from a distance. | |
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Uncommon Time: "The Little Things Give You Away" is done in 3/4. | |
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Epic Tracking Shot | |
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Epic Tracking Shot: The camera in the "Given Up" video never once pans away or cuts. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: The last line of the bridge in "Given Up" combines this with Metal Scream, resulting in a seventeen-second long, two-note scream. However, Chester generally avoids holding it for that long during live performances in order to preserve his voice. | |
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We Have Become Complacent | |
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We Have Become Complacent: The purpose of "What I've Done" is to warn against this and instead begin to embrace the fact that we all need to step up and make a difference. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: The rest of the band encouraged Brad Delson to play more prominent guitar parts, despite the fact that he was previously too shy to play solos because he hated showing off. He also contributed harmonies for a number of the tracks. This also marks the first time Mike began to sing, rather than just letting Chester sing the choruses or the entire vocal harmony. Additionally, Mike gets two songs to himself, one Political Rap song that sounds like it would belong to Fort Minor and another song that has him singing solo for the first time. The iTunes version adds another track that just featured Mike Shinoda singing | |
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Album Intro Track | |
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Album Intro Track: "Wake", a calm and uplifting instrumental. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: "Hands Held High" features a chorus of amens, which the audience gladly replicates live. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "Valentine's Day", ostensibly: | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The end of "The Little Things Give You Away" has two minutes of Brad, Chester, and Mike harmonizing with one another to awesome effects. | |
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A Wild Rapper Appears! | |
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A Wild Rapper Appears!: A variation. The album doesn't feature a lot of rapping, so when Mike does show up to rap, it feels like this is in effect. | |
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Break Up Song: "In Pieces", ostensibly. "Valentine's Day" seems to count too. | |
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Watching the Sunset | |
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Watching the Sunset: Invoked in "Shadow of the Day": | |
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Rap Rock | |
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Rap Rock: The notable lack of rapping was one of the main criticisms of the album. Only "Bleed It Out" can be classed as rap rock, as the other song with rapping in it ("Hands Held High") is a Political Rap song that sounds like it belongs in Fort Minor. | |
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Back to Front | |
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Back to Front: The "Bleed It Out" music video does this creatively. While the band performs in real time, the surrounding bar fight rewinds from its culmination to its beginning. | |
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Repurposed Pop Song | |
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Repurposed Pop Song: "Leave Out All the Rest" was used to promote both Danny Boyle's film Sunshine and the first Twilight movie. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: Chester bellows it out hard (read: swings that axe like a goddamn hurricane) in the bridge of "Given Up", capped off by the infamous seventeen-second, two-note scream. He then repeats the screaming throughout the latter half of "No More Sorrow" | |
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Political Rap | |
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Additionally, Mike gets two songs to himself, one Political Rap song that sounds like it would belong to Fort Minor and another song that has him singing solo for the first time. The iTunes version adds another track that just featured Mike Shinoda singing | |
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His Own Worst Enemy | |
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His Own Worst Enemy: The single line of the refrain for "Given Up" invokes this ad vervatim. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Mike is largely demoted to a backing vocalist who harmonizes with Chester, rather than one half of a tag team. Only two songs feature him rapping, and only one features their signature Vocal Tag Team. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Twice in "Bleed It Out": | |
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Video Full of Film Clips | |
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Video Full of Film Clips: Since "Leave Out All the Rest" was done to promote Danny Boyle's Sunshine, the video features the band on the spacecraft of the film, though there are no clips featured explicitly from the film. An alternate version of "Leave Out All the Rest" was done for Twilight. Similarly, "What I've Done" has an alternate music video full of Transformers clips. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: "Hands Held High" switches from the perspective of the average American in the first verse, to the perspective of an average Iraqi in the second verse. It shows how the war in Iraq destroys the life of both the American kids who fight, and the innocent Middle Eastern people who face the threat of bombings every day. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: The Arena Rock concerns of the album sound very similar to U2: indeed, Chester's mannerisms in the "What I've Done" video seem to mimic Bono's. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "In Between" was the softest song the band had released up to that point (other than the Hybrid Theory B-side track "My December", as well as the then-unreleased "She Couldn't", also from the Hybrid Theory sessions). That being said, "Leave Out All the Rest" and "Valentine's Day" are also this. | |
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Vocal Tag Team | |
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Vocal Tag Team: Only "Bleed It Out" features this dynamic. Otherwise, Chester has all the lead vocals with Mike doing backing vocals. The only exceptions being "Hands Held High" and "In Between", where Mike has the whole song. | |
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