*It's boring and bland overall. *Electronica in there just for the sake of having some. *The background through the intro sounds like a playschool song. *The rap is unnecessary. *So much other stuff, both obvious and subtle.
I don't have a website hosting my reviews, but I play violin, viola, cello, piano, guitar and harmonica. I was a music major and composed a few orchestra pieces along with other instrumental pieces. I was in a band that got a record deal and has an album on iTunes although I never see any royalties from the damn thing. I like the song.
There is nothing wrong with it and it's not offensively bad (like Somewhere I Belong chorus for example) but there's nothing great about it either. There is no momentum, no "magic"...
Respect (for the triangle) I can play Smoke On The Water intro on a guitar and I make cool beatboxing sounds...
Fixt. Everything that Spiderguy said above. The song is created with one purpose in mind, and that's not to relate to us, not to push the boundaries of the band in any way, not to create anything original, but to solely make Linkin Park and Warner Bros. money by appealing to the fifth grade schoolgirl mentality with which the mainstream is manifested, cheesy synths, playschool melody and a beat which can only be described as a hybrid between europop, dance and dubstep, the genres we all grew out of 6 months ago before the mainstream took it and made it into a happy meal. Gone are the powerful and ballsy explosions of sound which we all loved about Hybrid Theory and Meteora, gone is the experimentation on which the band redefined themselves in Minutes To Midnight and A Thousand Suns, and in it's wake lies a hard punch to the gut for anyone who listened to Chester's speech at the end of Meeting Of A Thousand Suns, I have been a fan of Linkin Park for 11 years, and I am disgusted.
I can play the weirdest and most complicated tunes and beats on my triangle. I hope you guys aren't really making fun of me.
I play keyboards and guitar, opinions should be valid even if I'm near deaf, which I'm not. It's a great song, but considering we're talking about Linkin Park, I'm disappointed. Listening to it, I thought of things and beat loops to make it sound better [to me] before the first chorus, which isn't a good thing. I hope they intentionally went for the minimalistic direction on this one, because if the rest of the album is like this, they seriously dropped the ball. Highly doubt it.
I'm not. I'm using it to make fun of other people. As a musician, I respect everything you do. Percussive instruments are difficult for me.
Cool, I just had the impression you don't take me serious. It really took me a lot of work to get where I am today. I'd even say I'm able to pull of harmonies on my triangle that are easily much more complex than any instrument we hear on Burn it Down. Edit: if there are any
I WANNA HEAL I WANNA FEEL I SLIPPED ON A BANANA PEEL I WATCH ALLY MCBEAL MY FAVORITE ZOOLANDER FACE IS BLUE STEEL I LIKE TO KNEEL IN FRONT OF NEAL AND REINVENT THE WHEEL WHILE I EAT VEAL WITH LOTS OF ZEAL SOMEWHERE I BELOOOOOOOOOOOONG