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"Nobody's Listening" has not been performed in its entirety since 2004, but verses of the song were featured during the extended intro of "[[Points Of Authority]]" on Projekt Revolution 2007.
"Nobody's Listening" has not been performed in its entirety since 2004, but verses of the song were featured during the extended intro of "[[Points Of Authority]]" on Projekt Revolution 2007.
During the 2019 ''Post Traumatic'' European Tour, Mike rapped the first verse of "Nobody's Listening" during the "[[Lift Off]]" jam session in [https://lplive.net/shows/mikeshinoda19/20190322 Ludwigsburg].


===Variations===
===Variations===

Revision as of 02:15, 11 July 2019

Template:Infobox song "Nobody's Listening" is the eleventh song on Linkin Park's sophomore album Meteora. It is known mainly for its center around hip-hop vibes and its Japanese flute loop.

Background

In March 2003, Mike Shinoda did a track-by-track of Meteora for ShoutWeb. About "Nobody's Listening", he said, ""Nobody's Listening" is a more hip-hop style track. Beats and samples are the backbone of the song and of course, as always, we make our own stuff. When I use the word "sample", I don't mean that we're lifting it off somebody else's thing. We always create our own thing and loop that because to me it just feels more genuine. I can have more pride in a part that I wrote than a part that I lifted off of somebody else's thing. We made this interesting thing off of a Japanese flute with different Japanese flute sounds. It was actually keyboard and some other breathy sounds that we used, some piano and some drum stuff but it was most keyboard. It's like a real deal hip-hop track. The challenge in making that fit with the album was in the sonics and the vocals. At a certain point, we realized the song is like an island. It's detached from the mainland, the rest of the album. We realized that our bridge would be a little bit of guitar played a little differently. Brad does this muted guitar part in the chorus. Chester and I kind of play off each other's vocals. When we finished the vocals, we figured that it probably worked."

On the Meteora booklet, the band wrote, "One of the band's many goals in writing Meteora was to take their sampled sounds to the next level. However, in creating more interesting samples, a new challenge arose: To make the wide variety of sample-based elements feel like they belonged together. At first, this song's Japanese flute loop created a mood that was far different from any other song on which the band was working, and made the track feel too distant from the rest of the album. Mike and Chester decided that the singing vocals would have to somehow connect the song to the rest of the recordings. The following day, Chester's performance gave this seemingly incongruent song balance, transforming it into an essential track on the album."

In an interview with AllHipHop on November 10, 2004, Mike admitted to have quoted Jay-Z on the song: "I have been a fan of Jay’s work from day one. one of my favorite songs is "Brooklyn’s Finest"–I even quoted it on our song "Nobody’s Listening" from Meteora."

"Nobody's Listening" also samples a song by Linkin Park, Mike's remix of "High Voltage".

Green Lantern Remix

"Nobody's Listening" was remixed by DJ Green Lantern for the We Major mixtape by Fort Minor. The remix samples "No One Knows" by Queens Of The Stone Age, "Threat" by Jay-Z, "Shook Ones (Part II)" by Mobb Deep, and "We Major" by Kanye West featuring Nas and Really Doe. Mike's verses were re-recorded.

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Studio

Title Album Length Recorded Released Notes
Nobody's Listening Meteora 2:58 2002 March 25, 2003
  • Samples Linkin Park's "High Voltage".
  • Contains a reference to Jay-Z's "Brooklyn's Finest".
Nobody's Listening Meteora - Instrumentals 3:00 2002
  • Official instrumental version.


Remix

Title Album Length Recorded Released Notes
Nobody's Listening (Green Lantern Remix) DJ Green Lantern Presents Fort Minor: We Major 2:32 2005 October 30, 2005
  • Remix by DJ Green Lantern.
  • Samples Queens Of The Stone Age's "No One Knows", Jay-Z's "Threat", Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones (Part II)", and Kanye West's "We Major" (feat. Nas & Really Doe).
Nobody's Listening - Dirty We Major EP 2:29 2005 2005
  • Dirty version of the DJ Green Lantern remix.
  • Lacks the transitions and overdubs.
Nobody's Listening - Clean We Major EP 2:24 2005 2005
  • Clean version of the DJ Green Lantern remix.
  • Lacks the transitions and overdubs.

Live

Title Album Length Recorded Released Notes
Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Live) LP Underground 4.0 4:57 July 18, 2004 November 22, 2004
  • Recorded in the summer of 2004.

Live

"Nobody's Listening" was performed sporadically throughout the Meteora touring cycle. It's live debut came during the 2003 Projekt Revolution Tour, an extended outro being added to it immediately. Throughout the tour, Xzibit would come out and perform his song, "My Name" over the outro. The song didn't survive for long, being dropped after the short run on Projekt Revolution. The song was dropped on the following tours, until it reappeared at the end of the Meteora Australian and Asian Tour at the band's third and final night in Tokyo, Japan. After the song returned, it remained in the setlist for quite some time. Starting at the band's "warm up" show for their Meteora UK November Tour at the SmokeOut festival, the band extended the second verse of the song, with Mike rapping the first verse of "Standing In The Middle" over it. The song was dropped for the final leg of the 2003 tour of holiday festival shows, but brought back at the beginning of 2004 with an extended outro.

The full version of "Nobody's Listening" was dropped on the Meteora International Tour, but it remained in the setlist as part of the Hip-Hop Medley. Only the song's first verse and first chorus were featured in the medley.

"Nobody's Listening" has not been performed in its entirety since 2004, but verses of the song were featured during the extended intro of "Points Of Authority" on Projekt Revolution 2007.

During the 2019 Post Traumatic European Tour, Mike rapped the first verse of "Nobody's Listening" during the "Lift Off" jam session in Ludwigsburg.

Variations

Last Updated: May 2, 2016

Type Description First Played Last Played
2nd Verse w/ "Standing In The Middle" November 11, 2003 November 25, 2003
Outro w/ Xzibit rapping "My Name" March 9, 2003 April 26, 2003
Outro Mike interacting with the crowd over the chorus instrumental January 16, 2004 March 15, 2004
Alternative Hip-Hop Medley (Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down) June 3, 2004 September 11, 2004

Live Guests

Last Updated: November 13, 2015

  • Xzibit

Personnel

Linkin Park

  • Chester Bennington: vocals
  • Rob Bourdon: drums
  • Brad Delson: guitar
  • Joseph Hahn: records, sampling
  • Phoenix: bass
  • Mike Shinoda: emcee, vocals, sampling

Additional Musicians

  • David Zasloff: shakuachi flute

Production

  • Don Gilmore: producer
  • Andy Wallace: mixer

Lyrics

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Come / Come / Come / Come
Comin' at you
Come / At you
Come / Comin' at you
 
Yo
Peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
We drop right back in the cut
Over basement tracks
With raps that got you backing this up like
[Rewind that]
We're just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten
But still unforgiven
But in the meantime there are those who wanna
Talk this and that / So I suppose
It gets to a that point feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt
It goes

Tried to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening
Called to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening

I got a
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
And everything left's a waste of time
I hate my rhymes
But hate everyone else's more
I'm riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that it's better
I can't keep myself together
Because all of this stress
Gave me something to write on
The pain gave me something I could set my sights on
You never forget the blood, sweat and tears
The uphill struggle over years
The fear and trash talking
And the people it was to
And the people that started it
Just like you
 
Tried to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening
Called to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening

I got a
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Uphill struggle / Blood, sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Uphill struggle / Blood, sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Heart full of pain
(Heart full of pain)
(Heart full of pain)
 
Tried to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening
Called to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
(Told you everything loud and clear)
But nobody's listening
 
I got a
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Nobody's listening
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Nobody's listening
Uphill struggle / Blood sweat and tears
Nobody's listening
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Nobody's listening
 
 
Come
Come / Come / Come / Come
Comin' at you
Come / Comin' / Comin' / Comin' / Comin' at you
Come / Comin' / Come / Come / Comin' at you
Come / Come / Comin'
(Coming at you from every side)

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Let's go! Yeah! Green Lantern
Mike Shinoda
Aiyo, Green, tell 'em what the name of the mixtape is. Ha-ha!
("Fort Minor: We Major") Let's go!

Yeah, peep the style and the kids checkin' for it
The number one question is "How could you ignore it?"
We drop right back in the cut
The Evil Genius track and Mike's raps got you backin' this up
Like rewind that, just rollin with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division
With these non-stop, lyrics of life livin
Not to be forgotten but still unforgivin
But in the meantime there are those
who wanna talk this and that, so I suppose
Gets to a point, feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreadin the dirt
It's like...

Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me
I told you niggas nine or ten times to stop fuckin' with me
But nobody's listening
Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me
I told you niggas nine or ten times to stop fuckin' with me
But nobody's listening

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Handful of anger held in my chest
And everything left's a waste of time
I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else's more
I'm ridin' on the back of this pressure
Guessin' that it's better I can't keep myself together
'Cause all of this stress gave me somethin to write on
Pain gave me somethin I could set my sights on
You never forget the blood, sweat and tears
The uphill struggle over years, the fear and
Trash talkin' and the people it was to
What up to the Militia and the LPU, ha ha
 
Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me
I told you niggas nine or ten times to stop fuckin' with me
But nobody's listening
Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me
I told you niggas nine or ten times to stop fuckin' with me
But nobody's listening
We got a heart full of pain, head full of stress (nobody's listening)
Handful of anger held in our chest (nobody's listening)
Uphill struggle, blood, sweat and tears (nobody's listening)
Y'all watch your back, Machine Shop is here!

Fort Minor: We Major

C'mon homie we major; we MAJOR?!
C'mon homie we major; we major
C'mon homie we major; we major, c'mon

Let's go!

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