The music video for "Given Up" is available on iTunes, along with a live concert video of the band playing the song. Throughout the video, several flash scenes appear such as a cowboy, hippopotamus, and quotes from " Magical Thinking: True Stories" (the "Commercial Break" chapter), a book by Augusten Burroughs. Bennington performs his seventeen-second scream perched on the guard rail, inches from the audience. Transitions between cut scenes are in a style of worn analog tape distortion giving the video an even more rugged, tough appearance. The video consists of live clips from the shows (stated above) and has been edited together in a sharp, rugged manner which contains short cut scenes with many special effects, mainly altering the coloring.
The video was directed by Mark Fiore, the band's videographer, with additional directing credits to the band.Īs of September 2021, the song has 94 million views on YouTube. The video was uploaded to the band's YouTube channel on March 4, 2008. The video premiered on the band's official website on Maat 4pm Pacific Standard Time (Midnight UTC). Linkin Park had officially finished filming the video on February 6, according to Billboard Magazine. Bennington told the crowd at the MEN Arena and the O2 Arena during shows on January 27 and 29 that the performance of "Given Up" was recorded for use in the video, although cameras were also visible during the performance of the song at the concert on January 28 at the O2 Arena. On his official blog, Chester Bennington stated both when the video was shot and that it features live performance from the band. One of the random frames in the music video
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The single was released as digital download on February 17, 2008, along with a cover art. On January 24, 2008, it was announced that "Given Up" would be the band's next single after "Shadow of the Day," released on October 16, 2007. In June 2007, the official Billboard website gave information stating that "Given Up" and " Shadow of the Day" would be the next two singles from Minutes to Midnight, following " What I've Done." This proved incorrect after " Bleed It Out" was promoted to single status, and by that time was released as a promo single between "What I've Done" and "Bleed It Out" mainly due to heavy airplay on alternative rock stations at the time. The song was made available as a single on March 3, 2008. This would be the first time Chester Bennington used profanity on any studio material after "System" from the soundtrack to Queen of the Damned. It also contains the second most amount of profanity of any Linkin Park song (the most being "When They Come For Me", a song from the band's fourth album, A Thousand Suns) with the word "fuck" being featured in the chorus and the bridge. It starts with a distinctive jingle sound during the verses and intro, generated by the jingling of guitarist Brad Delson's ring of keys and a steady clapping beat by Mike Shinoda. I’m just going to rearrange the song around what you just did.”" And he’s like, “I don’t know how long just to scream that part.” I’m like, “Dude, I’m not touching that vocal. He had a ton of control, and he got to that point and just let it go well into the next chorus.
He was having a really good day in the studio. So he just held the note as long as he possibly could. We got to the bridge, and he knew that he was supposed to scream “Put me out of my misery,” but he didn’t know how many measures that part was. I had written a lot, or most of, those lyrics, I think, and he had just learned them he was reading them off of a piece of paper. I had organized the song, and Chester hadn’t gotten familiar with the structure of the song when he was singing it. I think it’s a 17- or 18-second-long scream. "One of our most notorious moments is this big scream on the bridge of “Given Up”.
Speaking in a 2020 interview with, Mike Shinoda would explain how the 17-second scream came to be:
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The scream was often split into two, eight-second long screams when performed live allowing Bennington to catch his breath, although he has completed the full scream in various live performances. It notably features a seventeen-second-long scream by Chester Bennington before the final chorus, as well as a steady guitar riff for the choruses of the song. "Given Up" is the heaviest song on the album. The performance of the song is available on the " Bleed It Out" single. Live performances of these three songs at the AOL sessions were released on AOL on May 5, 2007. "Given Up", along with " No More Sorrow" and the hit single " What I've Done", made its live debut on Apin Berlin, Germany.