Talking to Myself (song)

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"Talking to Myself"
Single by Linkin Park
from the album One More Light
ReleasedJuly 25, 2017 [1]
Recorded2015–2017
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Length3:51
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Linkin Park singles chronology
"Heavy"
(2017)		"Talking to Myself"
(2017)		"Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"
(2017)
Music video
"Talking to Myself" on YouTube

"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. [6] [7]

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Music video

Screenshot from the music video, showing Bennington looking out the window of a vehicle Linkin Park - "Talking to Myself" music video.png
Screenshot from the music video, showing Bennington looking out the window of a vehicle

The music video, which features footage of the band performing at various places and rehearsing, [7] [8] was edited and directed by Mark Fiore. [8] It was released several hours before Chester Bennington was confirmed dead. [9]

The music video reached over 10.1 million views on YouTube in one day, making it one of the most viewed online videos in the first 24 hours. [10] 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; [11] 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 September 2024, the music video for "Talking to Myself" has over 150 million views on YouTube. [12]

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". [5] Allison Stewart of The Washington Post stated, "the electro-poppy 'Talking to Myself' sounds like the work of a '90s boy band". [3] In a negative review, Anita Bhagwandas of NME commented that the song "is full of unsophisticated hooks and forgettable melodies". [13] Jon Pareles of The New York Times described it as "a pounding plaint about loneliness, alienation and 'all the walls that you keep building.'" [14]

Charts

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