Take a Look Around (song)

"Take a Look Around"
Single by Limp Bizkit
from the album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water and Mission: Impossible 2 (soundtrack)
Released	July 3, 2000 (2000-07-03)
Length	5:36
Label	Flip Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Fred Durst Lalo Schifrin
Producer(s)	Terry Date Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit singles chronology
"Break Stuff" (2000) "Take a Look Around" (2000) "My Generation" (2000)
Audio
"Take a Look Around" on YouTube

"Take a Look Around"^[a] is a song by American nu metal band Limp Bizkit. It is the first single and tenth track on their third album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and was released on July 3, 2000. The main riff of the song is derived from the original Mission: Impossible theme composed by Lalo Schifrin, however it deviates in its meter which is common time, except the bridge, which uses Schifrin's original ⁵
₄ time signature.^{[original research?]} It appears on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Mission: Impossible 2. In the United Kingdom, "Take a Look Around" was Limp Bizkit's first single release.^[1]

The song became a European hit in mid-2000, reaching number one in Iceland and Portugal, number two in Finland and Spain, and number three in Italy and the UK. In addition to reaching the top 10 in several other European countries, it became a top-30 hit in Australia and New Zealand. The song received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2001 but lost to Rage Against the Machine's "Guerrilla Radio".^[2] An instrumental version of "Take a Look Around" was released as a promo and later included as a B-side on some versions of the "Rollin'" single.

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