Mike Shinode Talks About His New Solo Single Already Over, Which DNA Linkin Park Investigates

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JAKARTA - Mike Shinoda shared the details of his latest solo single, Already Over with NME. He revealed about the opportunity to review his work with Linkin Park in the future.

Distributed on October 6, this surprise song is a continuation of the singles in 2023, In My Head and the trilogy Dropped Frames (2020).

I write and produce a lot for other people and I actively avoid microphones. It was really inspiring, I was very excited, but to the point where I realized I missed making something for myself, "he told NME, discussing what got him started working on more solo material.

"From the start, it felt like there was a lot of Linkin Park DNA in it, and I thought: 'Should I edit it?' I walked away from it? But it doesn't feel good to do that. It feels better to accept it and make the song what it wants."

While acknowledging that working with many well-known faces recently had a'smooth' impact on his own music, Shinoda revealed that the main thing she noticed was how the experience allowed her to develop as a songwriter, and see previous work with Linkin Park through fresh lenses.

Part of this evolution stems from the use of a different source of inspiration than seen in Shinoda's previous solo release.

While his 2018 debut album Post Traumatic helped him process the loss of bandmate and friend Chester Bennington, and Dropped Frames Vol. 1 helped him to stay sane during the pandemic, this time his music was inspired from a different point of view.

"It might be a little bit more relief, I think that's one of the things that pushed my process at the time," he recalled.

"Now, I feel like there is no push like that. It's much more energetic. There's ferocity. I'm just going to record strange things! I'm chasing something I hear in my brain and I want to make it real."