"The Nosebleed Section" is a song by the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n hip hop music

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 group Hilltop Hoods

Hilltop Hoods

The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...

. It was the third song lifted from their 2003

2003 in music

-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...

 album The Calling. In the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

The 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, announced on 26 January 2004, was the eleventh such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 40 songs was released. A DVD, containing film clips of songs...

 it placed at #9 and in 2009 it was voted number 17 in the Hottest 100 of All Time

Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009

The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in 2009 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J. Over half a million votes were compiled, with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" collecting the highest number of votes. Voters could submit a list of up to ten...

, making it the highest placed Australian song, the highest placed hip-hop song and the highest placed song from the 21st century in the countdown. It is one of their best-known songs and was a radio hit in 2004, even appearing on the Channel 9

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 police drama Stingers

Stingers

Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...

, but it was not an ARIAnet

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

 chart hit, which they did not attain until 2006 when they released their first ever single, "Clown Prince

Clown Prince

"Clown Prince" is a single released by Australian hip-hop band, the Hilltop Hoods. The single, the first from their 2006 album The Hard Road, reached #30 in the ARIA charts, becoming the first Hilltop Hoods song to chart on the ARIA Singles Chart. The song also charted at #23 on the Triple J...

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The lyrics of the song deal with upbeat themes of parties, concerts, good times and living the high life involved in an MC's career.
The chorus and backing beat of "The Nosebleed Section" are sampled from the song "The People in the Front Row" originally sung by Melanie Safka

Melanie Safka

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...

. Pieces of this song are continually inserted into "The Nosebleed Section".

I looked around for faces I'd know,

I fell in love with the people in the front row, oh how...

...Put me here, and I'm all yours,

It's not for the money and it's not for the applause, no.

The song includes lyrics from the Powderfinger

Powderfinger

Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....

 song "These Days

These Days (Powderfinger song)

"These Days" is an alternative rock song from Powderfinger's fourth studio album, Odyssey Number Five, which was released in 2000. The song was also released on Powderfinger's 2004 compilation album Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000....

", sung in tune by the band, rather than sampled.

This life turned out nothing like I had planned

The term 'Nosebleed section

Nosebleed section

The phrases nosebleed section and nosebleed seats are applied tongue-in-cheek to those seats of a public arena, usually an athletic stadium or gymnasium, that are highest and, usually, farthest from the desired activity. A common reference to having seats at the upper tiers of a stadium is "sitting...

' relates to the occurrence of nosebleeds in the active part of the mosh pit at the front of the audience (and can also refer to the uppermost level of a concert venue, exaggerating the idea of high altitudes giving nosebleeds and nosebleeds caused by cocaine, as referred to in the song).