Papercut (song)
September 25, 2001
Papercut is a song by American nu metal band Linkin Park. On 18 June 2001 it was coupled out in the UK as the third single from Hybrid Theory. Worldwide, the single did not appear on January 28, 2002, but in the United States. It reached # 14 in the UK Top 40 and number 49 in the German Media Control Charts.
Background
Papercut is about the mental health problems of a person who is suffering from a psychosis. This manifests itself in the song especially by the description of paranoid delusions. The first lines of the song that are rapped by Mike Shinoda, noisy Why does it feel like night today? / Something in here's not right today / Why am I so uptight today? / Paranoia 's all I got left. Between the Rapversen Chester Bennington sings a chorus. Papercut is a typical example of the Rock-/Rap-Kombination on Hybrid Theory. As with A Place for My Head Forgotten and the bassist is exceptionally Ian Hornbeck, who never was, however, an official band member.
Bennington called Papercut as one of his favorite songs by Linkin Park. The band plays the song still regularly in concerts.
The song was for the remix Ppr: Kut used from the remix album Reanimation. Also in the Mashup Big Pimpin '/ Papercut it was used. In addition, also contains the song Sold My Soul to Yo Mama, which can be found on the EP Songs from the Underground, a sample from Papercut.
Music Video
The music video was directed by Nathan Karma Cox and band member Joe Hahn. It shows the band as it plays haunted house in a sort. On the wall a certificate from Mike Shinoda drawing hangs from a baby who is depicted on the Xero demo tape. In a darkened kitchen next to it you can see eerie shapes, including a human-like, which may represent the paranoid person to which is the song. This creature moves extremely fast and has tormented, they also flits again quickly by the bright room. Gradually begin dragonflies from the dark into the light room to buzz, objects move and the lights flicker. Rob Bourdon, who, strangely enough, the only one playing an instrument, seems to notice first the strange happenings, while the others are busy with their instruments or their rap or song. Brad Delson and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell play acoustic guitars, although heavy, distorted electric guitars can be heard in the song. After a moment is long black shortly before the end of the screen, the band has disappeared, only the instruments remain.