1)On the interview: nothing new, it's always the same things that are remaining..."Something totally new, never heard before"/" Can't classify it into a genre"/...
2)On the "Back to the roots" debat: like it happened with other guys here, Hybrid Theory is THE album that put me into music...Before that, there wasn't a fucking song I could listen to. But when I heard OSC for the first time, I was like "WTF"...Then I bought Hybrid Theory and I was totally amazed by the other songs too. However, I don't want a record with same sound anymore. The reason is: it would simply be annoying, and have a negative effect on the Hybrid Theory "value". It's a question of psychology: more something is unique, more people are giving value to it. Tourists are according more interest to the Statue Of Liberty than to an electric pole because there is one Statue Of Liberty and millions of electric poles. It's the same here...At the moment, we can say there is 1 Hybrid Theory (or 2, if we count Meteora), and it's the main reason why this album is so appreciated by the fans. If there was a third record with the same sound, the value of Ht/Meteora/3 record would inevitably decrease. With a fourth record sounding like the 3 others, the decreasing would continue...and in the end, fans would lose their interest for LP. For example, there is a band called Static-X that I really liked before but not so today. Why? Because they kept the same sound over the years and their different albums. As result, when a new record of them comes out, I know exactly how it will sound like, and I listen to it maybe 1 or 2 times before to get bored....
***One the other side, I hope we won't receive a pop/soft album again. I think LP can both be heavy and make something new....
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I, I care about the singles! But it's only because 1 single = 1 video (generally)