The videoclip to the song “ In the End” became The Best Video of the Year on MTV.
Later on, not less popular videoclip was made to this track and it often appeared on various music TV channels. The album’s most popular song “ Crawling” earned a Grammy for The Best Hard Rock Performance. Linkin Park became known not only in America but in Europe and Russia and, in a short period of time, reached such a success that other bands could wait for all their life. The first album sold over 30 million copies. This project exceeded even the most audacious expectations of the group. Musicians included into this album the most interesting and worthy of a wide audience works, which they collected during the past years. Records company, “ Linkin Park” (by that time, they had already changed both a vocalist and name) released the debut album entitled Hybrid Theory. Playing in an unstable lineup during a few years, the band, however, could not reach any peaks until 1999, which was marked by the guys’ triumph.Īfter signing a contract with Warner Bros. In 1996, Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson with the support of their friends-musicians created the group called Xero.
Linkin Park was formed a few years before the band received its present name. The group’s members released several albums, which sold millions of copies, and made rather presentable videoclips. Owing to the growing interest of the public to the alternative rock, Linkin Park managed to promote the band effectively and recorded a list of popular singles. Their popularity can be explained not only by their unique style and recognizability among variety of similar bands but by the guys’ ability “to pick up the wave”. The two-minute video was a compilation between the "Powerless" footage filmed for the trailer of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and clips of the Music for Relief's Power the World campaign.Linkin Park is a band of alternative singers, who won the world recognition and became one of the most commercially successful alternative rock groups of the world stage in a few years of their active work. Music for Relief premiered the promotion video of "Powerless" on November 27, 2012. says the song is "certainly bigger and bolder than the majority of the album's songs, but it still doesn't shake you to your core like I wish it would".Ĭhester Bennington has confirmed in an interview that a music video will be shot for "Powerless". It was used in a commercial promoting the second season of the NBC show Revolution, following the usage of "Roads Untraveled" in a commercial promoting the first season.īillboard lists "Powerless" as an example "of why Linkin Park remains vital while its nu-metal compatriots have more or less fallen by the wayside". Bekmambetov screened the film for the band, who reacted positively to the film, and believed that the band had a song that would fit into the film hence, "Powerless" was chosen. The music video was directed by Timur Bekmambetov, director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. A performance music video of "Powerless" featuring scenes from the film was released on Yahoo!, serving as the film's music trailer. "Powerless", the twelfth and closing track of the album, is featured in the closing credits to the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Lyrically, the song is about a self-destructive friend or lover. It's also been described as a "surging, slow-burning, classically Linkin Park anthem". The Silver Tongue Online described the song as "a foundation of busy percussion and electronica, a sweeping chorus and Coldplay-worthy bridge". The song has a piano-based production and is described by Spin as having a "electro-goth atmosphere like Bruno Mars on the most recent Twilight soundtrack". "Powerless" is a mid-tempo song that features a lock-step breaks, soaring harmonies and synthesizer whispers. The release included the "Powerless" artwork and featured just the one track. It was released on iTunes as a digital single from their fifth studio album Living Things on October 31, 2012, in Japan. Its working title was " Tinfoil", which also served as the intro to the song.
The song was written by the band and produced by co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. " Powerless" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park.