ScottiePippo

I looked back at some of the interviews with Mike while he was promoting THP and I didn't find anything that I would consider eyerolling, disrespectful to pop music etc. Can you provide some examples of the cheesy thoughts that Mike farted?

Your interpretation of Mike's words during the promo for THP is way off imo. Mike was commenting on the situation on alternative/rock radio which were almost always playing pop-rock/alternative type of songs and few truly rock songs. It was not a knock on other bands at all. Mike's words described exactly what was happening, the decline of rock music. They were doing pop rock before THP and they did pop music after THP. It was not dishonest nor incoherent. LP committed to release a heavy and raw rock record knowing that the market was not going to reward it commercially and they did it for the reasons Mike talked about.

It's 7th but all the 6 above aren't single day events. For example the tour de france is a 3 weeks event so the viewership is cumulative. There's no chance that more people watch a single stage of tour de france than the champions league final.

In 2017 only 3 of the 4 shows in the UK were played in big arenas, one in London was played in a much smaller concert venue. The overall capacity was 60K at best, so significantly smaller than Wembley alone. Also playing 4 shows means people can attend more than one. It's a big difference.

LP flirted with soft songs during From Zero. Both HITC and LYF had quieter version. So next album I can definitely see that happening.

I think people are exaggerating when they say that LP went safe or took a comfortable path with FZ. I mean it's true that given the fact that the lineup had changed and they were coming back after a long time they wanted to give to the audience something that could be easily identified with LP. That's true for some of the songs, especially the singles, but not all songs. Linkin Park is not exactly known to the general public for type of songs like cut the bridge, overflow, stained, good things go and over each other. Sure some of these have elements that may take inspiration from past albums but the overall result imo feels like something new. At the end exploring more and innovating more is always fun and all but LP already explored and combined so many genres that it's not that easy to continue to do so in a commercially viable way. Maybe next album will be more focused on a specific genre instead of being so heterogeneous like FZ. I mean if LP stuck with the FZ style what kind of style even is that? Anyway I think that the bonus tracks Unshatter and Let You Fade made it clear that the band is not running out of ideas for the future

Both your interpretations don't exclude Chester tho. The song can be about Chester, it's not really important if it really is in the songwriters minds.

Agreed. Very well said

Yeah it's not about quality. It's about the focus. The focus so far has definitely not been on hip hop. There's no real hip-hop first song yet from the new lineup.

I think we are reading too much into it.

Earlier than that. Brad appears in the bts video for Friendly Fire. He's in Mike's studio in december 2023.

I feel like you are right. It's not unusual for Mike to revisit demos/embryonic tunes and rework them into songs. Great job dude. Like how did you even remember that live that I had completely forgotten?

I feel like they will play 90 minutes set at every festival. I'm seeing them in Italy, it's a festival and I don't have much hope for a longer setlist. It's ok, at least there are solid openers

If it's a "single" like Unshatter then who knows if they'll ever play it live

If we count where'd you go they have already played 5 new songs, stained, IGYEIH, cut the bridge and up from the bottom.