Dark_Adolescent

Hm, interesting. I'm a fan of the Gaga but this is definitely disappointing to hear. At least LP have their hearts in the right place, it seems.

a small recap can't hurt that much

I suppose not.

 

Could anyone just recap it, then?

+1?

really want to know as it is one my most favourite songs

thx!

I'm curious as to what it says too, but most likely it'd be against the rules to post it here. LPUX is something you pay for, after all. Even the newsletters.

Copy and paste the following line into your browser after installing Skype and logging in:

 

skype:?chat&blob=ynsxmec4dLp60nAqeRzSAcC65w1TCOi8l-1EHm6M8J9evcEK90B9XEgixIBmPxiThmnEsbYhnojf8e6il9W5OGY

 

LPL Skype chat go!!!!!!

Thanks, Mark!

I'm getting what I can only assume is Neon Trees performing.

 

Edit:

 

Sooooooo Skype?

Downloaded iTunes and it told me that I am not connected to the internet when I am. Anybody else get this? I might just watch the show on my brother iPod but when I was testing it out yesterday, whatever was live kept buffering.

Possibly your firewall or some other configuration settings. Do you get an error code at all?

Wow, MFR will be really happy when they get the donation.

Aha, so it WAS 3D!

It means he was eight times more likely to get discovered than someone who followed the rules.

 

It means that a lot of people wasted enormous amounts of time trying to do their best. I spent 8 hours on mine and mine is mediocre at best. I can't imagine the anguish of someone who really tried on this contest.

 

It means that, unless action is taken, all contests following this are going to be a farce, because it's going to become a spam hell if quantity over quality is what the judges are looking for.

 

It means that the contest wasn't fair and didn't follow it's own contract. The rules are written in lawyerese for pete's sake.

 

And finally, it means that the winner isn't a good of artist as the other participants. Choosing ONE and only one entry is the hardest decision in the entire process. It's a make or break moment. Allowing a cheater to win basically puts everyone else at a very large disadvantage as he didn't have to go through the most difficult part of the process.

 

If the band wanted to "choose who they wanted" they would have hired a graphic designer to do exactly what they wanted. Instead they did a contest and didn't follow their own rules in judging.

Yes, quoted for truth.

I'd either like one of two things to have:

1) the band re-picks a new winner, or

2) we vote for a new winner

 

The ones posted on the article are fucking mind blowing.

(image)

 

This one blew my mind especially,

(image)

 

We should start a petition.

Those are great. I especially enjoyed the other one with the Transformer and a girl. Ah, well.

 

In this case, all they would have had to do is look at the TITLE of the submission to see something was up.

http://howazzim.deviantart.com/art/LinkinP...ent-4-211681032

 

I am more disappointed with the management here than the 'winner.' This is laziness in the extreme. I bet the band had some random person pick the final five and they didn't care about getting the best ones.

 

 

Next contest, every person's gonna submit 100 entries each in a spam attempt to be picked at random. That's what happens when this sort of thing is encouraged. Why bother putting any work into it?

Exactly, what's the point of these rules if they won't make sure they're enforced?

And it definitely seems like they didn't look through all the submissions if they picked this one...it wasn't bad, it just obviously wasn't the best, or well-suited to be the cover really.

This sucks so much.

BUT were they really gonna look to see if the person only submitted one entry? They should have but it's doesn't surprise me that they didn't.

 

I'm still disappointed. Mine had no chance but this is still unfair.

Actually, it wouldn't have been that difficult. Let's say they went through and picked 1 piece of artwork and chose 9 runner-ups or so.

All they'd need to do is look through the artist's gallery (not very difficult) to see whether there were other entries. If there were multiple entries, then that person would be disqualified, and they could repeat the process with the runner-ups.

If they weren't going to enforce the rules, then they simply could have not had the rule in the first place. Then no one would be complaining (well, they'd probably complain about the bad quality or whatever).

I've already stated my views on Facebook (as Will) and Twitter; a lot of artists may have had many different ideas for the Iridescent artwork, but according to the rules they had to choose one and go with that. This individual uploaded ALL his ideas, which gave him more of a chance than everyone else to be spotted and chosen.

The fact that the judges of the contest didn't enforce the rules is really a shame because there were a lot of good alternatives there by people who DID follow the rules.

Awesome! Wow this is looking like a great show. Shame about the video screens though, hmm.

Anyone from LPL go? I'm curious to hear a description of the Moscow intro and Energy Up version, like many of us are.

Yep, more proof that Chester has amazing capabilities in singing and that he can do more than scream, like everyone wants him to do. LOL @ clappers in the audience, though.

Cool chat. He shut me down big time for asking about his latest blog post though lol, he sounded so pissed.

Lol what? What did he say to you?

Lol, ATS was nothing like Minutes to Midnight. It was a lot more electronic and had a much different vibe. MTM wishes it was ATS. I love MTM but ATS was just its own beast, it even blew me away. That said, I'm not hoping for this album to be ATS Part 2 either. I'm really enjoying how their recent albums are different from each other, so hopefully this one follows in the same vein of being completely different.

I thought it was all right. It certainly wasn't bad, but I wasn't feeling it that much either.

All this talk of "new" set lists is ridiculous. How "new" do you expect it to be? Changing the order around and switching a song or two is no big deal. It's not like they are going to ever play 10 different songs from a previous show. In the long run, it doesn't matter what they play because people are always going to bitch that it wasn't what they wanted.

Pretty much. A Linkin Park show is a Linkin Park show to me. Each one is a gift so I honestly can't care too much about the setlists anyway! Lol

I'll take that!

 

We should all go on Skype again anyway. Robot Boy FTW.

That was fun as hell. Let's both root for Robot Boy again, though we know they won't play it...

Hopefully they rotate, I guess we'll see soon enough.

This is an epic chapter in LP history indeed.

@linkinpark: "We've had some technical issues with the music video for "Iridescent" & it has to go away till tomorrow. Please check back then." -From official Twitter

It probably wasn't meant to look all fuzzy like some people said, they're probably fixing it now. I've yet to see what the video looks like on the LP App, is it clearer?

 

Anyway, I thought it was fine, not their best video but I don't think it's their worst. I've always enjoyed their CGI effects, although I have to say I don't quite understand what the actual video is about besides Transformers.

Here's a VH1 link, probably US only, though. http://www.vh1.com/video/linkin-park/658968/iridescent.jhtml

This looks like another slow mo CGI fest

You just described the "In the End" music video!