The song was performed live at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2010. Michael Menachem of Billboard gave the song a positive review, saying " 'Waiting for the End' offers the grandness of ' Numb' and ' Faint', but producer Rick Rubin's polyrhythmic framework and the group's moralistic lyrics set it apart from Linkin Park's past hits." MTV's James Montgomery praised the song, describing it as "one part soaring, big-boned ballad, one part rattling, slightly Ragga dancehall toast, and zero parts anything LP have previously attempted." Tim Grierson of listed the song as the fifteenth best rock song of 2010, saying that "Balancing rapped and sung vocals, the hopeful, resilient track builds to a beautifully rousing finale." ĭuring a Twitch stream in 2020, Mike Shinoda revealed that "Waiting for the End" is his favourite Linkin Park song. The video was placed at #28 of the year by VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year.
The version played in the video is the actual live performance of the song. It was filmed by numerous fans on Januat the United Center in Chicago, and January 28 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. In celebration of the band's North American tour, an alternate live video of the song premiered in the band's official site and YouTube channel. As we live our lives in the digital noise of today, we can find our center of humanity in the midst of the chaos. I wanted to push ourselves so far down the digital path that it eventually felt spiritual. If you have been following our visuals throughout this album, this is the next step in our journey. The clip is an experiment in making the most digital version of ourselves in the spirit of the visual pallette of A Thousand Suns. Joe Hahn wrote a blog post describing the music video:
The video also carries the themes of the artwork for their album, A Thousand Suns, with many shots of abstract artworks featuring animals and digital-themed media.Īs of February 2022, the song has over 210 million views on YouTube. The video features the entire band performing the song in darkness along with heavily experimental digital effects and distortion applied to them. The video was filmed in September 2010, before the release of A Thousand Suns and was released to MTV on Friday October 8, 2010. The official music video is directed by Joe Hahn. A screenshot of the music video, showing lead singer Chester Bennington being applied with digital effects.
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