Mike Shinoda talks new single ‘Already Over’: “It has a lot of Linkin Park DNA”
nme.comMike Shinoda has shared details of his new solo single ‘Already Over’ with NME, and revealed whether he is open to revisiting his work with Linkin Park in the future.Shared today (October 6), the surprise track follows on from his 2023 single ‘In My Head‘ and 2020 ‘Dropped Frames’ trilogy. “I was doing a lot of writing and producing for other people and I was actively staying off the microphone.
It was really inspiring, I was really excited, but it got to a point where I realised I missed making stuff for myself,” he told NME, discussing what made him start work on more solo material.“From the beginning it felt like it had a lot of Linkin Park DNA in it, and it occurred to me: ‘Should I edit that out? ‘Should I move away from that?’ But it didn’t feel good to do that.
It felt better to just embrace it and make the song what it wanted to be.”While acknowledging that working alongside many famous faces recently has made a “subtle” impact on his own music, Shinoda revealed that the main thing he noticed is how the experiences allowed him to evolve as a songwriter, and see his earlier work with Linkin Park through a fresh lens.“We’re not going to sit and let an instrument tell us what melody to sing,” he explained, opening up about the songwriting process with the likes Demi Lovato, PVRIS, Grandson and more. “We come in with an understanding of what’s on our mind.
What do we feel like talking about? What do we feel like singing about?”He continued: “When Linkin Park was a baby band, that had never even occurred to me.
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