You'll notice Japanese flute here and there, we'll use different samples that will basically create a new mood, create a vibe in the song. For example, in "Breaking The Habit" we have live strings and piano, in "Faint" we have live strings. In an interview with Yahoo! Launch on October 12, 2003, Mike pointed out the differences between their (at the time two) studio albums saying, "One of the big differences people will notice between Hybrid Theory and Meteora is just simply the use of different instruments, different textures and moods. Like those titles felt so overwrought, so the idea of using the session title was cooler to us."
On our second record Meteora, the song "Faint", the reason it was "Faint" was we liked the word "Faint", the session title, more than the actual idea of "I Won't Be Ignored" or whatever. The session, the file on my computer usually has a different name. In my process, usually a song ends up having a title because of the lyrics. After careful deliberation, Brad and Mike decided the faster beat was more fun."Īs for why the band named the song "Faint", Mike said, "I always struggle with titles. He returned to the bus a couple of days later, and Mike had put together the beat at 135 BPM - Almost twice as fast. Brad recorded scratch guitar tracks for "Faint" over a click track (no drums, no music), expecting the tempo to be about 70 BPM (beats per minute). On the Meteora booklet, the band wrote, "Brad came into the studio bus, where Mike was working, to record a new idea. That word doesn't even appear in the song." I don't know what the actual title would have been but it wasn't that. "Faint" was just a working title that we wanted to keep. We're going to skip the lyrics on that one. I just heard something different when I first heard the part so that's how this came about. First he argued with me and told me that it wasn't supposed to be that then I told him, "I know what you intended but I think this works." He listened to it and he totally changed his mind. He and I had done the drum tracks to 140 beats per minute. He played it to a click during Ozzfest and he came back. Brad actually brought that guitar part in originally thinking that it would be 70 beats per minute or somewhere in that vicinity I think.
About "Faint", he said, ""Faint" is a fun song.
In March 2003, Mike Shinoda did a track-by-track of Meteora for ShoutWeb.
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