There was a lot on that album about feelings of being taken advantage of and there is some angry stuff on that record.

I think the music came first on that one and the music inspired the lyrics. In a live stream, Mike said about 'Victimized', 'In my head when I just heard the song, I heard the remix. Shinoda has stated that 'Victimized', along with ' Lies Greed Misery', acts a precursor of sorts to the band's sixth album, The Hunting Party, noting that the similarities between the riffs of 'Victimized' and ' A Line In The Sand' weren't intentional. Even when I was at the mix with Manny, you're not sure some of the time вЂ“ 'Oh, maybe that's a distorted bass' or 'Maybe that's a guitar sample.'' There's also guitar-sample sounds that were made on machines that weren't physically played, but you don't know what's what. If you listen to Victimized, there's that HOG octave-oscillating sound. A lot of times it's finding that interplay between an actual guitar and a sound that we've handcrafted, whether it's a sampled sound or an electronic sound. ' Whether Mike's doing a guitar part or I am, we always want to do what's best for the song. Chester also was shown on LPTV episodes for the album recording vocals while sick for both 'Victimized' and ' Until It Breaks.'Д«rad Delson has stated 'Victimized' is his favorite guitar moment on the album and cited it as an example of the perfect guitar sound for a Linkin Park song. Mike Shinoda, during his listening party with the fanbase for Living Things, mentioned that Chester had recorded his vocals for ' Lies Greed Misery' while sick. The speech sample at the beginning of 'Victimized' was that of a counterfeit merchandise seller in Jakarta, Indonesia which Mike had recorded on his phone in 2011 while touring for A Thousand Suns. Victimized was definitely tapping into some of that anger.'. He also talked about the conception of the song: 'I think the music came first on that one and the music inspired the lyrics. The desicision to keep it as a short song was inspired by the punk rock bands he and Brad used to listen to in high school, like D.R.I. Mike Shinoda stated the band's first instinct was to fill out the song to make it longer. And so, but itвЂ™s a pretty complex (Indiscernible) track, and I really like it, itвЂ™s one of my favorites.' So I think that also adds to the heaviness of the song, too, the vibe that Mike is sending out. I mean, thereвЂ™s a swagger to his whole vibe and a confidence that I donвЂ™t think IвЂ™ve seen from him before. I think the rapping on this record for Mike is the best that heвЂ™s ever done. And I think the verses are some of MikeвЂ™s best. I mean that song kind of was done at that point in terms of what I needed to contribute to the song. And then kind of the most obvious line to come after screaming victimized is вЂњnever again.вЂќ And then that was it. And so I think I started yelling something like вЂњFuckвЂќ or something over it, and we were sort of laughing about how funny it would be if that was like the chorus, and then I think it was Mike or maybe Brad, but someone in the band was like, вЂњJust pick like one word, that could be like one really good word,вЂќ and I think someone threw out вЂњvictimizedвЂќ and I was like, вЂњThatвЂ™s great.вЂќ And I just ran in the studio and just kind of screamed вЂњvictimizedвЂќ over it. And we looked at each other and we know exactly what the song needs. Д®xplaining how the track was conceived, he said, 'this is one of these songs that Mike came in with this kick-ass beat and I loved it, it was like, it by the way felt really heavy, it felt in your face, it felt like metal but it didnвЂ™t feel predictable. then rapidly dips into Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, Death Metal and back to Folk music.' He says, in a way there's no real meaning to the song. According to him 'It starts with what sounds like folk. Chester Bennington cited 'Victimized' as a prime example of what the band wants to do because it shows the band's many different faces.

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