Attention Attention (song)

The song was released on September 24, 2019, as the fourth single from the band's sixth studio album, Attention Attention.{{Cite web|author=Joe DiVita|url=https://loudwire.com/shinedown-attention-attention-music-video/|title=Shinedown Demand 'Attention Attention' In New Music Viedo|website=Loudwire|date=September 24, 2019|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/shinedown-to-film-videos-for-all-songs-on-attention-attention/|title=Shinedown To Film Videos For All Songs On 'Attention Attention'|date=July 2, 2019|website=Blabbermouth.net|accessdate=October 21, 2020}} An accompanying music video was released on the same day.

Attention Attention is a concept album,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8232518/shinedown-attention-attention-album-devil-video|title=Shinedown Announces New Album 'Attention Attention,' Releases Single 'Devil': Video Premiere|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=October 21, 2020}} that, from beginning to end of the album, "charts the life of an individual protagonist from excruciating lows to searing highs", with the track appearing in the first half of the album.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/shinedowns-attention-attention-a-track-by-track-guide-by-brent-smith|title=Shinedown's Attention Attention: A Track-by-track Guide by Brent Smith|first=Fraser|last=Lewry|magazine=Classic Rock|date=7 May 2018|accessdate=October 21, 2020}} While discussing the track Smith stated: {{quote|"Attention Attention is a warning. It's like your alter ego jumps into the room all of a sudden, and starts messing you with you and pushing you around a little bit. And then you start going into the psychological part of the song. It's the other dimension of the individual, where the other side of them is going, 'Nothing about me is ordinary/My friends all say I'm going crazy/I don't hear a word that they say/Because the voices in my head are legendary/But I'll never tell them where the bodies are buried/It keeps them coming back every day.'"}}

The song has rap-styled verses along with a melodic chorus.{{cite web|first=Wes|last=Derby|url=https://metalnation.com/album-review-shinedown-attention-attention/|title=Album Review: Shinedown – Attention Attention|publisher=Metalnation|date=April 28, 2018|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}{{cite web|first=Naomi|last=Sanders|url=https://musicexistence.com/blog/2018/04/27/album-review-shinedown-attention-attention/|title=Album Review: Shinedown – Attention Attention|date=April 27, 2018|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}

Adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Attention Attention|others=Shinedown|publisher=Atlantic|year=2018|type=booklet|id=2-567367}}

Shinedown

• Brent Smith – lead vocals
• Zach Myers – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Eric Bass – bass, backing vocals
• Barry Kerch – drums

Additional personnel

• Eric Bass – production, mixing, engineering
• Doug McKean – engineering
• Eric Rickert – engineering
• Mike Fasano – drum tech
• HooGie J Donais – guitar tech
• Ted Jensen – mastering

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Category:American rock songs