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It is super interesting how people really like one more than the other. I think vol 2 is way better than the first one. I tried to put the first volume on while working and it didn't do it for me while volume 2 feels super great.

The crackling sound seems to be intentional to me. It might be a little bit loud at times though.

The tweet was over a year ago. It is totally possible that they worked on something completely different since then.

No they shouldn't. They have a choice, and if they think spreading their values is more important than a couple of fans then by all means they should do it and use their platform. It is up to the fan what to make out of it.

There are other differences between the demo and the final version besides the collabs and the mixing/mastering.

Yeah they were available in the beginning. I really liked the demo but I am not a huge fan of how Open Door came out. It is just too much going on with all these vocal tracks. Doesn't feel like there was a vision of how the thing is supposed to sound in the end and it got messy. Maybe I have to listen to it a couple of times to get used to it and my opinion will change.

I would love to see the faces of people who think this is a proper album once they hit the final song, which is an absolute masterpiece: Booty Down.

It was random stuff he made up on the go. There is no way you can add anything 😂

You wrote "None of the artists that he signed became successful" which on its own is not true. I've never argued that she got successful because of Mike, but you also never said "None became successful through Machine Shop".

How the hell is Skylar Grey not successful?

I think there was a big misunderstanding here. I didn‘t check the SWR3 page when I read the announcement, but I took a look at it afterwards. It was nowhere mentioned which show the broadcast will be from. On the schedule they had links to different articles/pages for some of the artists and the link on LP went to their gallery of the day when LP played Rock‘n‘Heim. The gallery wasn‘t new or anything. As far as I can tell they just randomly linked galleries of random live shows of a given band they already had on their website. One could infer that this meant that they broadcast songs from there but that‘s not something SWR3 announced so coming out and saying „they lied“ is bullshit. Their official announcement just said „we will play live recordings of these bands during the weekend“. What are you talking about? There was nothing someone had to pay for. Don‘t create more drama if you don‘t even know what happened.

He said it was the VMA's but it most probably was the Billboard Music Awards show. They never performed BID at the VMAs, just at the Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards. When comparing both performances the Billboard one looks like it was more chaotic with people running of the stage in the beginning. Edit: Listening to it again. Mike even said "BMA's" 😄 But I think most people misheard it.

I have no experience with that stuff myself, but I would assume that the whole song writing credits thing gets way more complicated and formal once you include that many other writers so the band can't just be like "oh by the way, we are also going to add every other band member as a song writer. Deal with it".

He used it multiple times on stream. In one of the Instagram sessions he speaks about it in more detail.

I really like it and I really like the vocals of Lights. Seems like I am in the minority 😄

Yeah I agree that this was probably planned (which doesn't take anything away from it). I assume it is basically a teaser for a new song we will get soon. His last instagram post is probably a reference to it as well.

yeah no one can convince me that this is not at least to a certain degree a cash grab.

Will there be 5 different vinyl versions? Do I count that correctly?

Blood//Water was kinda big as well.

Are these confirmed numbers or speculations? If she basically has 50% of the votes, I would assume that she can block everything.

The price for the package is totally reasonable in my opinion. The only complaint I have is that you have to sign up to even see the price of the bundle. Just offer a bundle with the online membership included and put it up on a public page.

I agree with everything. The only thing I can see getting released through LPU are either MS/PT demos or live recordings.

CD Baby is a service to publish your music independently to Spotify, Apple Music, etc. As far as I know you use that kinda of service if you don't have a label or some other way of publishing your music. Definitely not something Linkin Park would do. For example pretty much every other song Mike is involved with has "KENJI KOBAYASHI MUSIC" listed as a publisher. This is most probably "fake".

Or maybe he is just saying that because you always blame Warner without having any idea if it's even Warners fault or it was the decision of someone else. You always assume that Warner is to blame for every single decision you don't like without any proof. For DSPs we had other reasons before, like the venue prohibiting it. So there are probably 100000s of reasons out there that don't include Warner at all.