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Music for Relief premiered the promotion video of "Powerless" on November 27, 2012. says the song is "certainly bigger and bolder than the majority of the album's songs, but it still doesn't shake you to your core like I wish it would".Ĭhester Bennington has confirmed in an interview that a music video will be shot for "Powerless". It was used in a commercial promoting the second season of the NBC show Revolution, following the usage of "Roads Untraveled" in a commercial promoting the first season.īillboard lists "Powerless" as an example "of why Linkin Park remains vital while its nu-metal compatriots have more or less fallen by the wayside". Bekmambetov screened the film for the band, who reacted positively to the film, and believed that the band had a song that would fit into the film hence, "Powerless" was chosen. The music video was directed by Timur Bekmambetov, director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The disc was obtained by LPCatalog in 2015 but its content can't be released to the public due to an agreement between the fan site and the person whose name is on the CD. All tracks on this promo CD are unmixed and not mastered. A performance music video of "Powerless" featuring scenes from the film was released on Yahoo!, serving as the film's music trailer. Living Things Remixes is a watermarked CD of Linkin Park rough demos for Recharged. "Powerless", the twelfth and closing track of the album, is featured in the closing credits to the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Lyrically, the song is about a self-destructive friend or lover.
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It's also been described as a "surging, slow-burning, classically Linkin Park anthem". The Silver Tongue Online described the song as "a foundation of busy percussion and electronica, a sweeping chorus and Coldplay-worthy bridge". The song has a piano-based production and is described by Spin as having a "electro-goth atmosphere like Bruno Mars on the most recent Twilight soundtrack". "Powerless" is a mid-tempo song that features a lock-step breaks, soaring harmonies and synthesizer whispers. The release included the "Powerless" artwork and featured just the one track. It was released on iTunes as a digital single from their fifth studio album Living Things on October 31, 2012, in Japan. Its working title was " Tinfoil", which also served as the intro to the song.
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The song was written by the band and produced by co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. " Powerless" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park.