I didn’t love them forever ago, but I rather like their new single “The Emptiness Machine”. I don’t follow music so I didn’t know they had lost their lead singer until yesterday. I heard the song and thought, “Linkin Park doesn’t have a woman for a lead singer….”
PURRRRRRRRRRRGING WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN
When ‘Lost’ dropped, it really spoke to where I was emotionally at the time. Chester out here like “Even in death, I still serve.”
Pray his soul still lives on as a machinespirit in the many CDs that are still around.
Meteora was also a decent album. I stopped listening after that. Hybrid Theory is something else though. Reanimation was also dope
Meteors was fantastic! But yes, after that, it kinda fell off.
I really liked minutes to midnight. A lot more introspective and mature.
But the fucking scream in Given Up still breaks me. Even more since his death.
They had some solid songs after this, but I kinda feel that this is where the downfall started to happen as they moved away from the angry, angry stuff and towards more of a rock sound.
I found the formula got a bit old after a while. The lyrics felt more profound in the beginning, but after a while it just felt like it was throwing synonyms for feeling bad in very similar tracks.
I listened to the first three albums (inlcuding reanimation) obsessivley when i was a kid. I think those and the live in texas album are the only cds i still own, for nostalgias sake. Ive recently been going over the albums ive missed though and though they arent start to finish bangers like the old ones, theres some really good songs still.
In the end, it doesn’t even matter
Bad taste then, bad taste now. No development or change in perspective. If this is you, you should be disappointed in yourself. Grow as you age.
^ Millennial who got bullied when they were 13 for liking Linkin Park and made it their whole personality and their life’s mission to make sure no one thinks they like it again. 🙄🥱
Unironically grow up. Those people were dicks. They’re well produced songs that are noteworthy for how well they portray teenage angst (a valid part of the human experience like any other) and connect with teenagers worldwide.
I was 18 when the song came out and couldn’t stand it then, can’t stand it now. Was more into Nine Inch Nails, Manson, and Nirvana to deal with teenage angst.
Linken Park isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Didn’t like Fred Durst, Blink 182, or even Korn. That kind of music made me do the emojis you put in your comment
You just sound insufferable as fuck lol.
Are you being a projecting douchebag right now?
Low effort.
Do you enjoy being a twat?
Yeah I was also an elite™️ 14-year old, all the normal girls were into LMFAO and LOL and their Flo-Ridas and BBM (what is that? Big boob messenger? Stupid thots. I was so much smarter than them. Humph! Looks are for the shallow!) and I was into far more intellectual things, like karaokeing to ‘Somewhat Damaged’, crying at least once to every single song on Still and speeding up the virgin power walk when the guitars come in on ‘Beside You In Time’.
But then I turned 16, and I was into cloud rap, and a tad later, doom metal. I came to realize that people had varied, changing tastes that didn’t necessarily give you the right to assume so much about them if they liked something I did not, it’s not as if one cannot be objective about media at all, but moreso that using tastes to attack a person, or to assume personal traits about them, especially a group of people, seldom yields to accurate outcomes.
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It is a lesson I had to learn again when my CompSci colleagues at university didn’t cruise through classes like I did, it wasn’t because they weren’t ‘real’ ‘geeks’ like I was, and it wasn’t because they didn’t use Linux, and once more, and again and again with many different things, undoing the brainwashing of a consumption society to see the wonderful complexity of people.
I make music now, and I’ve learned to see the wonderous complexity in it too, even in stuff that’s ‘not my cup of tea’.
I can critique it, but I no longer assume so much about people, and perhaps I am taking all this far too seriously, and that’s fine, but if that applies to you, I hope you can grow up too.
lol what? I don’t give a shit what people listen to. To each their own. I was simply stating that not everyone loved Linkin Park, which seems to have offended a lot of people.
Well then you need to phrase yourself a lot better because that is not how you came off, clearly.
NIN is 29yo angst with heroin addict angst thrown in for good measure.
Not really but if that’s your thing go for it
Yeah, and they’re even worse now. A scientologist for a lead singer… are you shitting me?
Fuck Linkin Park for that.
I’ll give you this point, they portay teenage angst pretty well. I don’t get why a grown person would welter in teenage angst, though
I don’t think anyone welters in it when they re-listen to angsty music of their youth. For me it’s just a matter of nostalgia and reminiscing.
If this is you, you should be disappointed in yourself. Grow as you age.
who hurt you?
Cliche response. Embarrassing.
Who hurt you?
Why are you embarrassed?
bruh
Now I see you’re testing me, pushes me away
You must be fun at parties.
The most unoriginal response in the history of internet responses. Congrats, you copied the last 1000000 people to say this lame shit.
Boooo i smell redditor on you boooooo get better at life booooooooo
Go byebye babe.
Did someone hurt you at a party?
I can almost guarantee this is the same person on a different account. Not even a day old and all just shitpost comments.
This account is not even 12 hours old and is writing wild comments. Most likely a troll Account, just block and move on.
You must be fun at parties.
“Your subjective experience needs to be the same as my subjective experience” in more words lol
Music being subjective doesn’t imply all music is equally good or that everyone’s opinion is equally correct. There are still bad opinions. Saying Linkin Park is worth listening to is a bad opinion
Lol I agree with some of your points. The beauty of subjectivity is that you expressed an opinion, and that I can say with equal authority: Linkin Park is a great band and your opinion is incorrect
You should be more subtle if you want to troll people. With a bait that obvious, you should be disappointed in yourself.
so I guess you shame anyone who enjoys the Beatles then?
Lmao you’re comparing Linkin Park with the Beatles?
They did both misspell their band names.
Look, I really do dislike Linkin Park and always have, but you obviously have no clue about how people or their musical tastes work. You are the one that needs to grow up, both in perspective and empathy.
It says a lot about people who like Linkin Park that they can’t tolerate any criticism of the band. Criticizing someone aesthetic preferences is not some great evil
It’s just a meme bro
You’ll get it once you grow out of your teens and a decade or two has passed.
The lead singer really was dealing with something.
He tried so hard.
And got so far.
But in the end…
It didn’t even matter
Song is 24 years old maybe the meme need to be updated. Me at 39
He surely doesn’t look 30. More like a 15 yo’s concept of 30.
Or 30, but with a meth addiction between ages 22 and 29.
[✓] I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Works for me, I’m 30. I discovered LP by going to my local library and renting the two CDs they had. Good times.
Me at 30+ listening to new Linkin Park with the scientologist and sexual assault enabler:
“this shit sucks”
I liked her until I found out she was batshit. Bummer! Easy enough to listen to other bands I guess .
Yep and M Shinoda is completely tone deaf to the controversy / doesn’t give a shit
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I have mixed emotions of love and hate.
Well this certainly isn’t reddit cause you would have just been bombarded with how much of a monster you are for not liking a scientologist.
Since when?
Since about 2023 July.
It’s all bot or purchased accounts all the way down too. I’ve been checking it out at work when I’m bored. It’s all accounts with 2 post karma and 2000 comment karma on like Warhammer figurine subs.
shut up when I’m talking to you
Never fails that about this time every year I give Hybrid Theory a listen. Had such an impact on me when it came out that it seems to have left a permanent mark on the change from summer to autumn for me.
Reanimation is also still awesome.
100%
There are 30 year old Linkin park fans? I figured they were all 40 at minimum
34 checking in.
Another one checking in.
Hybrid theory came out in 2000. Assuming a kid is 11 when they enter middle school, that would make a lot of mid 30s fans
I played so much unreal tournament on my Pentium 4 while listening to them
30 here, wassup
30 year old LP listener reporting!
Hello.
I never liked this band…
I’ve learned that some people are just wrong, and that’s okay. ❤️
You like to think you’re never wrong.
You’re not allowed to dislike le epic band. You’re only allowed to dislike nickleback or the hivemind will lynch you.
I mean I don’t like the taste of Burger Kings burgers, but I don’t pull off the road when I see one and walk up to the counter to tell them. I think negativity always invites negativity, which on here starts around downvotes
They sucked 30 years ago, and they still do.
Cool story bro.
