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Talking to Myself (song)
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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Linkin Park
| album = One More Light
| released = July 25, 2017
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| recorded = 20152017
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| length = 3:51
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| chronology = Linkin Park
| prev_title = Heavy
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds
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"'Talking to Myself'" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song is the second single from their seventh studio album, 'One More Light' and was released on July 25, 2017. The music video was released on July 20, 2017, the same day that Linkin Park's lead vocalist, Chester Bennington, was found dead by suicide. It is Chester Bennington's first posthumously released single.
Music video
The music video, which features footage of the band performing at various places and rehearsing, was edited and directed by Mark Fiore. It was released several hours before Chester Bennington was confirmed dead.
The music video reached over 10.1 million views on YouTube in one day, making it one of the most viewed online video in the first 24 hours.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170721162546/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvs68OKOquM Wayback Machine "Talking To Myself (Official Video) - Linkin Park"]. Retrieved August 29, 2017. The official video uploaded to Linkin Park's YouTube channel on July 20, 2017 was shorter than the previously released audio-only video and the video released to other sites such as Vevo; it was later fixed to play the full song, with the last shot being of Bennington in a vehicle looking out at a window.
As of November 2021, the song has 140 million views on YouTube.
Critical reception
The song received mixed reviews from critics. Ian Gittins of 'The Guardian' called it "a sleek Justin Bieber-style pop-R&B nugget". Allison Stewart of 'The Washington Post' stated, "the electro-poppy 'Talking to Myself' sounds like the work of a '90s boy band". In a negative review, Anita Bhagwandas of 'NME' commented that the song "is full of unsophisticated hooks and forgettable melodies". Jon Pareles of 'The New York Times' described it as "a pounding plaint about loneliness, alienation and 'all the walls that you keep building.
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References
Category:2017 songs
Category:Linkin Park songs
Category:2017 singles
Category:Warner Records singles
Category:Songs written by Mike Shinoda
Category:Songs written by Brad Delson
Category:American pop rock songs
Category:Songs written by Ilsey Juber
Category:Songs written by J. R. Rotem
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