- One Step Closer lyrics are about the thing as Bleed It Out lyrics. Both songs talk about the frustration the band was feeling because they couldn't finish a specific song (not about relationships).
- Not only non LP fans thought that was the only sound they could make. I'm not gonna lie, I was of these people who expected Minutes To Midnight to sound like Hybrid Theory and Meteora and I was kind of disappointed when they announced Qwerty wouldn't be in the album. I also hated What I've Done. At the time the album was released, the only songs I liked were Given Up, Bleed It Out, No More Sorrow and In Between (I loved to hear Mike singing). I didn't like New Divide very much. It was an "ok" song. But I loved The Catalyst and Waiting For The End as soon as they came out. I also hated Burn It Down and Lies Greed Misery. You can't say what songs someone will like based on if they listen to nu-metal or not.
- Not every nu-metal lyrics are about angry kids who hates their mom for no reason. Listen to stuff like Slipknot, Otep, Papa Roach, Incubus, and System Of A Down. They wrote some strong political shit.
- Linkin Park is still my favorite band (Linkin Park is what got me into music) and I still love nu-metal. Nu-metal is a experimental genre. Bands labeled as "nu-metal" were bands that thought it would be fun to mix genres together in a attempt to create something new. This genre got me into hip-hop, heavy metal, trash metal, metalcore, reggae, eletronic, funk rock/metal, alternative rock/metal, post-hardcore, etc. I do understand why these bands don't like being labeled as "nu-metal bands", they were trying to create something new instead of being part of something that someone else created. I just don't understand why some people here claim to hate it so much (even people who listens to bands like Deftones, Evanescence, Papa Roach, System Of A Down, etc). It's like any other genre, some bands are good and some are not, you can't generalize.
- Yes, I listed SOAD, Evanescence, and Incubus as nu-metal bands. Please don't kill me.