Hit the Floor (Linkin Park song)
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| "Hit The Floor" | ||
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| Song by Linkin Park | ||
| from the album Meteora | ||
| Released | 25 March 2003 | |
| Recorded | 2002 | |
| Genre | Rapcore | |
| Length | 2:42 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Writer(s) | ? | |
| Producer(s) | Don Gilmore | |
| Meteora track listing | ||
| Lying From You (4) |
"Hit The Floor" (5) |
Easier To Run (6) |
"Hit The Floor" is the 5th track of the Linkin Park album Meteora. It deals with someone not being able to say what they feel and keeping everything inside. It can also be viewed as being betrayed by a close friend or family member.
[edit] Interview with Mike Shinoda, March 2003 ShoutWeb
"Hit The Floor" is interesting because it's got this hip-hop style beat. For all the technical musicians out there, there is one thing that you'll notice right off the bat in the song. When you're writing a big rock chorus, you come in on the one count, on the downbeat, and you're just blaring music. The interesting thing about this song is that it comes on the "and" after the one. It's a syncopated start almost. For the technical musicians out there, you'll notice that it was definitely a chance that we took, that ended up working out. It was a difficult thing to make work and I think we feel pretty proud of it.
Just as a side note, and this leads us into the next song, is what I think makes great writing. It's like being a great athlete. It's when you can do something that's very difficult in a way that seems easy or even natural. You notice a great athlete, doing something that is just impossible for the average person to do but they make it seem so easy. And in that song, that's one element of it. In "Hit The Floor", that's one thing that is really working in that song.
"Hit The Floor" is kind of about people who look down on other people. It's basically about people stepping on other people to get to the top and acting like they're invincible when everybody knows that you can't be that person forever. You can't step on other people to get to wherever you want to get to. It just ends up coming back and biting you. And even in that song there is definitely more to it than that.
