Chester Interview With Ultimate-Guitar

Nice. Good news about Linkin Park! The songs are probably a collision course of mind-shattering-f$$$ness.

I feel good that the guys are still doing so damn successful after all these years. It doesn't seem to be slowing down at all for them.

 

That's how an interview is supposed to be! Good one!

 

“As long as the lyrics are great..."


V_V

 

Nice! UG always delivers awesome interviews. Great insight with chaz on DBS & LP.

I'm pretty confident now that LP will deliver on the next album.

whether it will be a big crowd pleaser and get back some older stuborner fans remains to be see, but I loved MTM so I'm doubt i'll be disopointed

 

I agree with you, but I'm even worse than you, I'm a Linkin Park sheeple. I honestly love just about every song they've ever created , so no matter what they put out, I'll enjoy.

 

Great interview.

 

That was a great read.

Aww @ Chester's songs getting rejected within the band

 

Rejection is an opportunity and Chester capitalized on it. Chester is conveying a lot of confidence in LP's production of their latest work and I know they will release a great record. They can't please everyone, but that's something they accept, because they want to channel their creativity into every note of their music. I like Chester's approach to making music for both bands as it gives him a tremendous amount of creative freedom. I'm sure they've gathered and implemented what feedback they got from their fans from M2M, so I do believe they will continue to pour out some epic tracks.
To digress, something I notice is that a lot of LP, FM, or DBS songs may not sound appealing upon first listen, but they grow on you so fast. Obviously, as we grow as people we look back and listen to a lot of the lyrics in older tunes and we have a different perspective. I listened to Crawling the other day and I was like "man, these lyrics are dark but they were such a part of my life when i first started listening to it". I feel like I can't relate to the dark lyrics anymore.

 

quality interview

 

As long as Mike writes as many of them as possible it stands a chance

 

^ I thought WIC had pretty good lyrics...

Great interview though, I hope the album is as mind-blowing as it sounds.

 

Looking foward to it

 

I don't categorically dislike Chester's lyrics, Mike seems better in that respect on the whole though.

 

Linkin Park is Mike's dog. He waters and feeds it... Linkin Park are not a band but merely possessed souls tranced to follow Mike's every word, and Dead By Sunrise are actually a Mike Shinoda side-project not Chester Bennington. Heed this, Babali has spoken. The next LP record will haunt your dreams...


Being serious, though, I think that a lot of people misunderstand Linkin Park's style of writing. You know, they're like classic music where you actually think long and hard about the lyrics before you write them down. It isn't quite as stream-of-conscious as much of todays rock music is with long rambling verses about random $$$$. Linkin Park are a professional band and they choose their words very carefully.
In my opinion, they want their music to have a universally positive message that can reach all people in any country no matter what language, and that's why their lyrics may come across to some as 'too simple and cliche', even though I always find them to use their words in unique ways.

It's a lot more difficult to write simple songs with a powerful message than it is to write a song full of random cryptic things trying to freak you out and keep you guessing every time.

 

Spoiler;































Next Linkin Park album will disappoint exactly half the fanbase.

 

I don't think they will lose half their fanbase. MTM was totally different from the privious works, did they lose half of their fanbase? It seems to me they didn't. And look at New Divide, which proves their abilitiy to be successful without cloning something (it was a mixture of old and new). And since they stated that they won't forget their roots on the next album I'm pretty optimistic that all kinds of fans - at least the biggest part - will be satisfied.

 

Yes. As they did with Reanimation and Meteora after that. And a good chunk of people hated New Divide too.

Not breaking balls or anything, just saying. Stay a fan long enough you know what to expect.