leftshoe18

So, who wants to start the LP9 thread?

I have no audio on the stream. Should I be hearing something?

Wow, somebody dropped the fucking ball I guess. lol

I'm very emotional right now. I'm feeling a lot of similar emotions to right before the Hollywood Bowl show. Joe's "I Wish You Were Here" post made me tear up.

I dig the new logo.

I recently watched a performance Weezer did for Spotify or something. They played a handful of songs and, between the songs, talked at length about each of them. It was kind of like a hybrid show/interview. I could see something like that happening.

It's surreal reading a Linkin Park pre-show post in 2024 after all the community has been through. I can't wait to be here with you guys tomorrow.

I like when bands have two lead vocalists and it would be a shame for Linkin Park to lose that element of their music.

This was how blink-182 approached it when Matt Skiba was filling in for Tom Delonge. The first single (and most songs from that era, actually) featured both Matt and Mark Hoppus. You need something to anchor to the past of the band, while also showcasing what's different.

Purple Mike is the new lead vocalist.

After 100 hours we had the date and after another 100 hours we had a time for something we've all been waiting 7 years for. That's not exactly "nothing" in my opinion.

But 8pm local time is a great time to play a concert.

It's so many fan bases. Let's not single out the LP fan base on this. I think leaker/scooper culture has gotten mainstream and those things go viral now. People unknowledgeable or inexperienced with hearing about leaks and rumors take it all as gospel and get pissed when things don't come to fruition. I don't think there's a fan base that I am a part of that I haven't seen that kind of behavior in the past few years.

Nik is so convinced that Twenty One Pilots are involved. lol

Just listened to Weatherman by Dead Sara and holy shit. I'm gonna be bummed if it turns out it's not her now.

So...I was wrong. lmao

An announcement next Thursday (with a listening party/live performance/whatever for LPU members) for the new single to be released on Friday, September 13th, wouldn't surprise me. It would line up with the altguy leak as well since it would be the second week of September.

It could simply be "being a part" of the return in general. It could be a secret show, a music video shoot, a listening party, etc.

Yay Adam's back.

I'll bet it's a secret show type thing. I wish I was in LA.

I'm watching the original Yugioh series right now. I never finished it as a kid and, after a bunch of Yugioh videos started being recommended to me on YouTube, I decided to give it another go.

I love TOP but it would be weird for the comeback single to be a collab.

I'm sorry, but as somebody who DID schedule my day around the countdown, it is embarrassing the amount of people acting like this is a grave betrayal. Does the countdown ending in nothing suck? Abso-fucking-lutely. But, at the end of the day, it's your own decision to schedule your day around it. You can't let entertainers - even ones we love as much as Linkin Park - dictate your mood to this extent with a marketing move. It's not healthy.

Oh yeah, saying they bungled this is fair. Acting like it's Linkin Park's fault if you called in sick to work is another thing entirely.

I think people are taking this way too harshly. Does it suck that nothing substantial happened today? You bet. I waited around all morning waiting for something to happen. I'm pretty disappointed. But people acting like the band betrayed them personally is way too fucking far.