Editing Feeling This (section)

==Background==
[[File:Mark Hoppus 2004.jpg|thumb|right|170px|alt=A man playing bass guitar sings into a microphone.|Bassist [[Mark Hoppus]] was the first to begin writing the song.]]
"Feeling This" was the first track that was recorded for ''[[Blink-182 (album)|Blink-182]]'' in early 2003.<ref name="linernotes">{{cite AV media notes | title=Blink-182 | year=2003 | others=[[Blink-182]] | type=liner notes | publisher=[[Geffen Records|Geffen]] | location=[[United States|US]] | id=000133612}}</ref> On the first day of pre-production on the album, Blink-182 bassist [[Mark Hoppus]] asked an engineer to explain [[Pro Tools]] to him, as it was the first time the band would record their music digitally. He began recording guitar and bass parts and experimenting with the software. When guitarist [[Tom DeLonge]] and drummer [[Travis Barker]] arrived, they too began adding new tracks to the project.<ref name="kr"/> The song was written in one day. "I think if I sit there and try to analyze everything, what would be cool here or there, I just feel like I get so far away from what I would do, and I think your gut instinct is usually the best thing," said Barker at the time.<ref name="drum"/>

The lyrics were written with Hoppus and DeLonge going into separate rooms—Hoppus writing the choruses and DeLonge writing the verses. The two had not spoken to each other about the lyrics ahead of time, and it turned out that the two had both written about sex. When put together, the song represents the lustful side of sex during the verses, the passionate side in the bridge and the romantic side in the chorus, creating a juxtaposition between both voices.<ref name="linernotes"/><ref name=Kerrang05>{{cite journal| last =Browne | first =Nichola | date = November 20, 2005| title = Punk Rock! Nudity! Filthy Sex! Tom DeLonge Looks Back On Blink-182's Greatest Moments| journal = [[Kerrang!]]| issue = 1083| publisher = [[Bauer Media Group]]| location =[[London]] | issn =0262-6624 }}<!--| access-date =January 7, 2013 --></ref><ref name="feeling"/> It has been interpreted as a description for failed romance, one that "illustrates a scenario of lust, ambivalence and regret."<ref name="tonedown"/> For Barker, the song's drum track was "super in respect to [[John Bonham]]. [...] We were kind of messing around with the verse. It’s like, 'Well, I want to do a four-bar drum intro and just see how it works for the song.' And we never second-guessed it. We were like, 'That sounds rad.'"<ref name="drum"/>

According to engineer [[Ryan Hewitt (record producer)|Ryan Hewitt]], the track contains "four distinct drum sounds created by old school tape editing." The song was recorded "part-by-part, committing to different sounds by changing relative levels, [[Equalization (audio)|EQ]], and [[Dynamic range compression|compression]] throughout," and the engineers would slightly move microphones used to record Barker's drum kit to tailor the natural ambience of the home it was recorded in.<ref>{{cite news|title=Blink-182: Drums|work=[[Electronic Musician]]|author=Lisa Roy|date=October 1, 2003|url=http://www.emusician.com/gear/1332/blink-182-drums/33373|access-date=May 14, 2016}}</ref> Upon playback of a rough mix of the song, the engineer automated the music to fade at the song's conclusion, but mistakenly forgot to do the same for the vocal tracks. Hoppus, who had been listening to [[the Beach Boys]] at the time, liked the [[a cappella]] interplay of their voices. All agreed to keep it in the final version of the song.<ref name="kr">{{cite AV media |date=October 28, 2011|title=Kerrang! Radio: Matt Stocks Meets Mark Hoppus From Blink-182 (Part 2)|medium=[[Streaming video]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxgDibGEtx8|access-date=January 5, 2016|publisher=[[Kerrang!|Kerrang! Radio]]/[[YouTube]] }}</ref>