Burn It Down

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共4首歌曲

艺人: Linkin Park
语种: 英语
厂牌: Warner Bros.
发行时间: 2012年04月16日
专辑类别: EP、单曲

专辑介绍

&Burn It Down& (working title &Buried at Sea&) is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released to radio stations, as well as a digital download, on April 16, 2012, as the lead single from their fifth studio album Living Things. The song was written by the band and produced by co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who co-produced the band's studio albums Minutes to Midnight (2007) and A Thousand Suns (2010). A music video for the song was directed by Linkin Park turntablist Joe Hahn. As of February 13, 2013, &Burn It Down& has sold over one million copies in the United States, making it their eighth million selling single.

The song's working title was &Buried at Sea& and was recorded in February 2012, as revealed by numerous LPTVs (behind-the-scenes footage) released in April and May 2012. Lead singer Chester Bennington talked about the song in an interview with MTV, saying what made the song interesting was &the really high energy and the really strong electronic melodies and hooks kind of set this song apart, which is why we chose it as our first single.& Mike Shinoda, the band's rapper and producer, noted that the song's meaning can be open to numerous interpretations, with an example being &what we do in pop culture, where we build somebody up to be the next great thing and then we just like to destroy them at the end of the day, and we've lived through that, so I think there's a lot of personal energy that went into the connection of that story.& In an interview with The Huffington Post, Shinoda clarified that his explanation of &Burn It Down& was based on the band's personal experiences, saying:

&...We're talking about my personal story and his personal story, and there's also a layer of pop culture that plays a role in the lyrics of the song. For example, people build up a certain celebrity or musician or actor or whatever and they're popular one minute and the next thing, you know either they've done something wrong or they've done nothing wrong and there's just a bad rumor that goes around about them and then everybody's attacking that person. That's just the way things are. We've actually lived through that as a band. All that stuff plays a role.&

On March 28, 2012, Shinoda confirmed that the first single for Living Things would be &Burn It Down&. On April 5, 2012, the band released a series of sliding puzzles at the band's official website to unlock snippets of the song. The last puzzle was completed on April 11, 2012, revealing the cover art. Another game was released, in which the snippets of the song were finally unveiled. A 30-second preview of the song was released by radio station SONiC 102.9. The song premiered on numerous modern rock radio stations. The band teamed up with the Lotus F1 team to create a musical racing iPad app entitled Linkin Park GP, where players drive a Lotus E20 and interact with an environment that allows the player to create a remix of &Burn It Down&, as well as zooming into individual sections of the song. Linkin Park GP was released on May 24, 2012.

&Burn It Down& received generally positive reviews from numerous professional critics. Praise was directed towards Bennington's vocals, while criticism was pointed to the song's lyrics. Nick Catucci from Rolling Stone described Bennington's verses as his &prettiest ever& and concluded that the song &leaves open the option of just dancing the night away.& He believed that the song is one of the band's best singles. According to Chris Martins of Spin, &Burn It Down& is &seared but still high-sheen slab of cross-pollinated pop driven by four-on-the-floor pump and the pulse of guitars and synths irreparably fused together.& Rick Florino of Artistdirect hailed &Burn It Down& as &one of the most incendiary tracks of 2012,& awarding the song with a perfect five stars. Anne Erickson of Loudwire praised Bennington and Shinoda's vocals, commenting that the song is &packed with subdued rhythms, riffs and raps, draped in a sea of atmospheric electronics.& AOL Radio listed &Burn It Down& as the best rock song and the second best alternative song of 2012, defining &Burn It Down& as &the perfect example of how Linkin Park has been able to stay relevant and become one of the most popular rock bands of today.&

Andrew Unterberger of Popdust felt mixed towards the song, commended Bennington's vocals, while criticizing Shinoda's raps and the song's lyrics. Tim Grierson of About.com noted that the song &enrapture[s] the ear...but the words aren’t nearly as captivating, dealing in a familiar love-as-Armageddon conceit.& Genevieve Koski and Steven Hyden of The A.V. Club were both negative towards &Burn It Down&, in which Koski said that the song &amplifies its mediocrity with its preening self-importance& and &seems to be competing for some sort of award for Vaguest Lyrics.& Jeff Sorensen, writing for The Huffington Post, thought that the song's lyrical content was &like they were flipping through a dictionary and put crappy drop D guitar riffs to it.& (wiki)

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