Linkin Park’s hit song about the American government’s disregard for victims of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans on August 23, 2005 and left devastation and deaths. In the album “Minutes to Midnight” (2007), Linkin Park recorded their protest against the government’s inefficiency in providing aid to the victims of the tragedy.

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In the book “In the End”, a biography of vocalist Chester Bennington released by Estética Torta, the singer reflected on the hit in question: “The Little Things Give You Away”. The publication has a 20% discount on the publisher’s official website using the coupon WHIPLASH20.

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“We were writing the harmonies before going to New Orleans the first year after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. When we were down there, we were talking to these people. The feeling I got was not good. I didn’t understand how we could spend 120 million dollars a year to kill people in other countries with wars and only allocate 1 million to rebuilding lives here. That really bothered me, and I felt bad, so I wrote these lyrics. Mike and I got into an argument, and he said, ‘Why Why don’t you write about Hurricane Katrina?’ So I said put it in the melody we were working on.”

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Vocalist Mike Shinoda commented on Brad Delson’s beautiful guitar solo: “Brad has always avoided solos because he doesn’t like to expose himself, but when he played that solo, it was like one of the most emotional moments we recorded. It expresses exactly what the lyrics say.”