The video itself – which currently has over 170 million views on YouTube – shows the band in a lavish house, specifically in one nice-looking lounge, adjacent to a much darker, twisted, shadowy room on the other side. While half the band are chilling out on sofas, turntablist Joe Hahn is hard at work while Mike and co-vocalist Chester Bennington give it their all to the camera – with Chester sporting a red mohawk and rather fetching trousers.
"I remember Chester showing up in all-plaid, a whole plaid outfit on, and I was thinking 'That’s a very weird choice,'" smiles Mike, reflecting on the day of the shoot. "It was the type of thing where you have to choose your battles because at that point there was so much on the line, we were just breaking, and there were minor disagreements on things all the time, so I wasn’t about to get into a conversation with him about the outfit when we’re just trying to shoot a great video.
As the video progresses, the sinister room somehow generates a creepy chrysalis, from which hundreds of dragonflies spawn (referencing Hybrid Theory's artwork). Then faces start coming through the wall and the room starts shape-shifting around the band.
"The special effects are goofy," adds Mike. "It’s not a terrible video, I think we’ve made worse, but when I watch it now, I look like a fucking idiot and I don’t know what’s going on (laughs)."