Mike Shinoda Discusses Upcoming LP Record With Billboard.com

yeah, yeah. yeah. They always want to do something brand new.

 

again? M2M promotion comes to mind.

 

agreed^
they always talk about ground breaking material and they never follow through while the material they have done is good it's time to stop the talk and actually do it...hoping for something epic

 

julie of billboard.com? I posted this in the got news yesterday!

but seriously, like I stated. thoughts of hybrid theory plus no rick rubin.... i'm hoping for a 'Minutes To Theory' type album.

 

Just give me something mind blowing. That's all I want.

And I am loving the comments in this thread, lol.

 

who's Julie? I don't CARE about JULIE! I spend ALL day looking for news to share with you guys on the LPA and I got NO CREDIT! WTF?!




just kidding, seriously, I was just being a smartass about the credit thing.


now back to our regularly scheduled thread conversation, lol.

 

Anyway. I love Mike and the rest and the band and all that, but seriously. We've heard this before Meteora came out, and we've heard this before Minutes to Midnight came out. Everything the band says I take with a grain of salt, because usually the final product isn't how they originally described. Plus, half the time, the band isn't even on the same page it seems, especially Mike and Chester. A few months ago, Chester confirmed Rick Rubin as the producer, but then Mike comes out and says nothing is set in stone.

In my opinion, this band needs to get on the same page with what they tell the media. They get everyone excited with what they're going to do for the next record, yet they don't back their words up. Though, what they endup releasing is pretty fucking good anyway, it isn't what they said it'd be. Everyone gets their expectations so high, then when the record is released, it isn't anything close to those expectations and then everyone shits all over it.

 

u know i love how this is a Linkin Park fan site, but they are getting trashed..both DBS and Linkin Park u all trash. Idk about anyone else but i support what they are saying.

 

While I agree with what you are saying, everyone has their own opinions and not everyone, even the most diehard LP fan is going to agree on everything when it comes to the music. LP has stated this and that and this is and that and gave us something completely different. No one is bashing the band, we just need validity in what they are saying. If they say "we're gonna make a heavy rock record", we don't want to hear a record that sounds like it was produced by one of the guys from Nsync. It just comes down to excitement from the band with their current sound. Whatever they are working on currently, they talk to the media about. They mess around with different sounds in the studio, create hundreds of ideas/demos and only use 12 on a record that may or may not be even remotely close to what they stated they were working on. LP is not the only culprit in this, as many bands jump the gun, especially this early in the new record process. I still get excited every piece of information that comes out, but I'm not going to bust until I hear samples of the record or finished songs before the album hits.

 

Totally. It's obvious everyone here hates the band and wishes they would catch swine flu or something.

 

I actually want them to PHYSICALLY get back to hybrid theory not MENTALLY. Last thing on my mind was to hear that thing coming from mike i didn't expect him to say that great thing at all. i thought about him saying same old boring things like "will be about new pure material that we didn't make before" or "more cutting-edge" or "we just needed to move on with a new style". hehe


Anyway i feel like the new album will be SO MUCH better than M2M. Don't ask how!

 

wow.. Ok look..how old are you? cuz it wouldnt suprise me if you were like 13 cuz of the way you respond to everything Linkin Park. I'm sure we were all at the same place with always agreeing with what LP does like you are right now. but alot of us have matured and realized that they arent a perfect band and they can always improve. If we hear something that's crap that comes from them we will say its crap. We wont automatically say its awesome strictly because it's Linkin Park. We are smarter then that

 

Lots of LPA members have been around since Hybrid Theory and have had a chance to both love LP and also to grow musically over the long years to listening to many talented bands, musicians and songwriters of all sorts of persuasions even ones that don't necessarily appeal to teenagers. I believe that, if LP were to heed any of the comments or criticisms given here, it would simply nudge them in a more sophisticated, progressive, adult direction than what they've done in the past while preserving the elements that made LP great to begin with. (At least that seems to me to be a somewhat accurate summary of dominant thought about here.)

Nothing wrong with having an opinions, and it's a reasonable one given the background of many posters here.

 

They can improve ......... Yes
Wasn't a perfect band ..... No

Nothing wrong at ALL with having opinions, even if they were negative. maclieberman was little bit right ...i mean c'mon guys even my friends tell me all the time the bad sound of my favourite band lp and i accept it!