There was a girl who wrote in saying that she was not feeling like she fit in at her school, because she wasn't punk enough. It was like an electronic version of writing the band post office box. That was our first venture into the internet, before websites were a main thing. Who are you talking to in the song? Is it just a general sentiment, or directed at someone specifically?īack in the days of really early social media experiments, we had an email address. When it's the four of us playing a whole lot of shows, it can't help but influence that. It is more straightforward, more rock in a way. We were touring a lot more leading up to making Bleed American than Clarity, and I think that influenced it. At least from your own perspective, you might not have the most objective opinion about it.Įven though Mark Trombino produced both Clarity and Bleed American, Bleed American has a very different aesthetic. I remember that it came together really easily, and I think there's a tendency to think that because something came together quickly, it's less good than something you struggled with.
I wasn't even sure if it would make the album. It really wasn't until much later on that people started reacting to it.īefore the album came out, did you have any notion that it would be a single? It just felt like it was just another song we had in the bag. ĭo you have any specific memories of the actual recording process? Was there anything significant about how it came together? During that period, we were touring for a couple of weeks here and there, then coming back home. JIM ADKINS: I don't remember exactly, but it was all around the same time.
Le sixième album du groupe, Chase This Light (2007), auto-enregistré en collaboration avec le producteur exécutif Butch Vig, adopte une approche plus pop et devient le meilleur album du groupe, se classant à la cinquième place du Billboard 200.At what point in writing Bleed American did "The Middle" come about? La RIAA a certifié Bleed platine américain et Futures or, récompensant les deux albums pour avoir vendu plus d'un million et demi de disques à eux deux. L'album suivant de Jimmy Eat World, Futures (2004), plus sombre, contient une autre chanson numéro un des Modern Rock Tracks, "Pain".
La percée commerciale du quatuor s'est faite avec la sortie de plusieurs singles de l'album Bleed American (2001), dont quatre se sont classés dans les vingt premières places du classement Hot Modern Rock Tracks, avec "The Middle" qui a atteint la première place. Leur deuxième album, Clarity (1999), a été largement ignoré lors de sa sortie, mais il est devenu culte et est largement considéré comme un disque phare de la troisième vague d'emo, influençant de nombreux groupes de rock modernes au cours des décennies suivantes. En octobre 2016, Jimmy Eat World a sorti neuf albums studio, dont les huit derniers avec la formation actuelle. Le groupe est composé du chanteur et guitariste Jim Adkins, du guitariste et choriste Tom Linton, du bassiste Rick Burch et du batteur Zach Lind. Jimmy Eat World est un groupe de rock américain originaire de Mesa, en Arizona, qui s'est formé en 1993.