I will seriously hit the next person who says MTM is emo. If you really think so then I'm sorry you're a fucking idiot. When has emo ever been trendy in the mainstream? Anyone know?
Since before LP. LP just added more angst to the emoness. Hybrid Theory was only about half emo. Meteora was full blown.
Meteora, while wholeheartedly crappy, angsty, and the most overblown god-forsaken puke-inducing rehashed bullshit to ever walk the face of the earth that has not yet been burned for heresy (yet), is not emo.
A few things. 1. I love this album 2. I don't like Lil' Wayne. (sometimes I think that mainstream rap died a slow painful death over the last decade) 3. Drake is more R&B than rap. Not that that makes him any good. (and I get annoyed when people confuse R&B with rap) 4. The music and lyrics in ATS are more mature than in any of their last 3 albums. Recognizing that is hardly "settling". 5. The lyrics in "Iridescent" describe the aftermath of an atomic bomb more so than they describe the aftermath of a hurricane, much less hurricane Katrina. And I think Iridescent has some of the best lyrics on the album.
It's your freedom to like/dislike an album, but your opinion doesn't mean an album is bad or what. If I love Justin Bieber, it doesn't mean his album is full of epicness, it's the best, And if I hate Mozart, it doesn't mean his music is crap. No. (In fact I love his music..lol)
This x10 Especially #2 and 3. Hiphop and R&B is what first inspired me back in 94. Of course ive broaden my expansion of music listening but mainstream has turned into pop. Theres very few artist that I would even call true hiphop/rap artist.
This thread is just a debunking of someones hatred towards a good album. He didn't state real mature reasons, but he attacked the band, gave them the usual comparisons, and acted as if their old music if far more superior. Nothing new guys, just a long YouTube like comment. Let's move on.
You joined the ultimate Linkin Park fansite in September of this year JUST to say the new album sucks? Your freedom of opinion is entitled, but your timing is, well... This album is definitely far more mature than Hybrid Theory and Meteora (I just didn't like MTM in general, but it definitely wasn't "emo" -_-) - HT and Meteora had a lot of "I feel"-like lyrics, and ATS has a lot to do with end-of-the-world-what-now + FUCK YOU GUYS (When They Come For Me!) stuff, and that's just badass. Challenge: find another rock band that doesn't still use "I feel" lyrics and has Linkin Park's success because of it. Like I said, your entitled to your opinion, but the charts don't lie.
Here's a post from the same guy back when MTM came out: Damn. If I were him I would've quit at this point. I can't understand how some people expected another nü metal record three years after MTM.
To be honest, I was thinking about this when I was on my bike ride home. I noticed his join date being in 2007, so I have a feeling he just signed up just for the sake of bitching about Linkin Park changing.
One Step Closer is the only remote emo song LP has put out. "Emo" generally means people who have no hope and want to cut themselves. Angst is a whole different thing. Papercut talks about paranoia...that doesn't make you emo. With You/POA are about relationships. Emo people generally don't even have relationships...well at least I assume . And when you look at Meteora, SIB talks about WANTING to heal. Emos don't want to heal, they want to give up. I'm sorry but Linkin Park is not emo. I'm getting tired of people saying they are.
Emo = Emotional. Whining about your feelings, being aggressively mad, depressed. All of the above. LP was definitely emo. Just because some emo people have black hair and cut themselves doesn't mean they are all like that. Those are just the ones that get noticed by everyone.
Me too, but for the completely opposite reason lol. I actually heard the album in separate chunks at a time and I distinctly remember fast-forwarding through Hands Held High waiting for guitar, to give you an idea of how I was. It took me a full year to actually give the songs a second listen, separately again, until I finally realized I loved every song on the album.. except Given Up