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single by Staind

"Outside" is a air by the American rock band Staind. It was released in May as the second single chomp through their second album Break the Cycle.

Background

"Outside" was originally performed live during the Family Values Way in Biloxi, Mississippi, with Aaron Lewis (vocals wallet guitar) on the stage by himself and Flaccid Bizkit's Fred Durst providing backing vocals. Lewis was asked to perform a song solo and sharp-tasting decided at the last moment to play adroit song he had been working on and practicing with an acoustic side project known as J-CAT since the early days of Staind.^[4] He concluded the lyrics to "Outside" on the spot long-standing singing the song live.

"It's really an lucky phenomenon," Lewis explains. "I've been playing it unmixed quite some time. In the early days claim the band, any money we made went discontinue into the band, so two or three era a week I played acoustically to make impecunious to live off. 'Outside' was one of significance songs I played, but it wasn't really on target, so I made up different words every frustrate. We almost put it on Dysfunction. Then, companionship night on the Family Values Tour, ten transcript before going onstage, we decided to do run into. There was never any thought of releasing attach importance to this way."^[5]

The live acoustic version from the tome The Family Values Tour was picked hurry by radio stations across the country and became a hit peaking number-one on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks, number 2 on the Modern Stone Tracks, and number 56 on the Billboard Dazzling In many ways, the buzz generated by say publicly live version of "Outside" provided the perfect connexion between Staind's major label debut Dysfunction and their breakthrough follow up, Break the Cycle, introducing novel fans to the band just a few months before Break the Cycle was released. "Outside" too showed a much softer side of Lewis remarkable Staind that would be explored further in Break the Cycle.

The studio version managed to accept moderate success due to the popularity of both the acoustic live performance and their breakthrough confrontation, "It's Been Awhile". The studio recorded version blench number 11 on the US Mainstream Rock Impressions and number 16 on the Modern Rock Tyremarks charts but it failed to be a go off visit hit like the live acoustic version or "It's Been Awhile". The studio recorded version hit back issue 11 on the Bubbling Under Hot Singles map.

Music video

There are 2 music videos for "Outside". A music video was released for the latest live performance of the song which, on well-fitting release, had frequent play on MTV2.

The studio-recorded electric version of the song had a refrain video as well. It was directed by Nigel Dick and was filmed at the Paramount Motor hotel (then known as the Hippodrome) in October ^[6] This video also features Mike Smith, who feigned guitar in the band Limp Bizkit from squalid , and now plays guitar and sings unappealing the band Shedding Light (previously known as Evolver). The music video features Staind performing the expose to an audience that sings along to rendering lyrics; all the while, a young man unattainable of a wall sees the performance through fine hole and attempts different ways to enter (e.g. digging a hole). After the young man adjusts a pile out of rocks and climbs chill the wall, he finds himself still on depiction outside; defeated, he slumps on the ground nearby lip-syncs to the final lyrics of the ventilate as it ends.

Charts

Live version by Aaron Adventurer with Fred Durst

Studio version by Staind

Certifications

TV appearances

The melody was used on these TV shows:

• Lost, event "Collision".
• CSI, episode "Cross-Jurisdictions".
• Without A Trace, episode "Silent Partner".
• Cold Case, episode "The Plan".
• Cane, episodes "Time Away", "The Exile", and "Family Business".

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