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Mike said in a promo video or behind the scenes thing around the time of the album's release that Chester and him would brainstorm ideas for songs and then take those ideas and go from there. I really think that Chester contributed ideas and themes for songs that he doesn't have a writing credit on because none of the actual words on the song actually came from Chester. I don't know if I'm wording what I want to say correctly. I just woke up and I'm kinda tired still. lol

Mike has writing credit on all the songs and Brad has credit on 7 of 10. They've always been the main songwriters in the band so I'm sure that's pretty similar to the actual writing of previous albums (though they've always been just credited as written by Linkin Park). They worked with other songwriters but it's exaggerating to say they didn't write their own songs. They wanted to make a modern pop album (for some reason) and part of that process is working with other songwriters.

Out Of Ashes had horrible production for the songs. I totally agree that a more raw sound would have fit the songs better.

I like it about as much as when it first came out. It's not my favorite Linkin Park album but it's got some great tunes on it (Nobody Can Save Me, Invisible and Sorry For Now being my favorites).

He'd probably say something along the lines of, "I don't remember." lol

Honestly even with A Thousand Suns already being my favorite Linkin Park album it makes me a little sad knowing that Trent or Atticus could have been involved. NIN's my favorite band so that would have been pretty cool.

Prime Chester doing the RME breakdown? Sign me the fuck up!

If we end up getting studio version of Reading My Eyes with Chester and Stick and Move that'd be fucking dope.

Would love to hear this if it ever is released. Blink-182 is another one of my favorite bands.

I don't see why everybody hates the new B12 so much. I think it sounds dope and is one of my favorites on Amends. I prefer the original version but can still get down to this one as well with its completely different vibe.

I don't think anybody here would be able to share it since it's officially-released music.

Misogynistic songs have been on the radio for generations at this point.

So I listened to the album and it's not bad. Pretty cool to hear these songs in a new style but I'm still not going to buy it because I'm not supporting Sean and company after they handled everything.

You fucking serious right now? They showed very, very little respect for Chester and everything seemed like a way for them to make money.

This one kinda drags on forever without really going anywhere. Some cool ideas in there still and I'm sure if Mike were to actually work on the song more he'd trim a lot of the fat and make something really cool.

Didn't really get a Hybrid Theory vibe from it at all to be honest but I'm loving that Mike is doing these live streams and interacting with the community like this.

I'm kinda digging it. I really like Mike's delivery and the hook is catchy. Not a great song but not a bad one either.

Dude can be used to describe a male or female person.

I think they just added a second guitar to OSC so Mike would have something to do. Also IIRC some of the outros they've played have had Brad playing a lead guitar part. Though I could be thinking of another song with that one.

Dude is gender-neutral my dude.

I really hate how defensive everybody gets here if somebody doesn't like a song/project/whatever that a member of the band is putting out. It really stifles any sort of open discussion. And news flash: saying "this song is awesome!" adds just as much to the conversation as "this song is shit!" does yet nobody ever complains about the former. I've liked the other two collaborations the band has done with Aoki so I'm optimistic that I'll like this one too but people are allowed to dislike a damn song.

Yeah Post Traumatic has some pop vibes to it but it's pretty much a modern hip-hop record but with more singing. Even most of the songs that Mike doesn't really rap on have a hip-hop vibe to the beat.

I'll reserve judgement until I can actually hear it. lol

I guess I was just trying to say that none of the pre-Hybrid Theory (album) songs really fit the style of Hybrid Theory. The closest would be the remixed version of High Voltage (since it was actually intended for the album at some point) but I feel like even that would feel very out of place on that album.

I really can't see She Couldn't or any of the HTEP songs fitting on Hybrid Theory.