How Linkin Park Changed My Life

I don't have a story like Derek's or Pidgeon's, but funny enough, Linkin Park have significantly changed my life.

When I first got an interest to make music, Linkin Park's sound and structure was something I always paid attention to and would try my best to mimic. I would always try to copy Mike's style in terms writing and everything. But really, I went through a lot of emotional abuse and depression in high school, and if it weren't for listening to LP I would have never have thought to turn my feelings into songs. Indirectly, Fort Minor came out and there were so many beat-makers, musicians, singers, and all on the FMMB that liked my music and encouraged me to go pro, and BAM, because of all of the people that I had met, my once LP-obsessed gf heard about me and we just celebrated 3yrs as of yesterday.

So if Linkin Park didn't exist, I would have never decided a career in music and would have never met my girlfriend

 

Just reading these has reminded me of another way they have changed my life. Us, their fans, are the nicest people I've ever met. All of Lp's fans appear to be just really lovely people who I connect with in a lot of ways. Be it the love of the band or personal experiences. Everybody I feel, has a great respect for one another and I love that so much. I don't think I could get this from any other band or their fans

 

I never told anyone this, when i was in 8th. grade middle school, i was on the berge [almost] of flunking science. this was in 1999-2000. I remember, i was in science class on the computer. I looked up Linkin Park. I also looked them up on my birthday [apr. 17] that year in the library at middle school. Now remember, In the end was the song that was out at that time. I really think that song was out for a while, before linkin park grew trendenly. [with very much trend-popular]. it was out for like a year or months. then in 2000, they had it out again...2000 is that millinium year where rock stars bloomed to popularity.

back in the late 90's and early 2000's, the tv program, not mtv or mtv2, was The Box. it was a tv program showed on regular tv like nbc, abc... 2000, the millinium, was the year when they were also first started to play a whole bunch of alt.rock music mostly and they showed those music videos in groups [the alt rock music videos] it'll come on on Saturdays early afternoon. It showed music videos of all genres: hip hop, alt. rock, pop... Do you remember The Box? They cut that tv program. mtv2 was the new thing. I think mtv was already out at that time??


I needed a C% or higher to pass 8th grade. If there was one failing grade, i would of had to repeat 8th. grade. well i was making a 69% D or a little bit lower in that class of science. some how some way i tend to think, there must be some connection somewhere. just notice, the music video in the end was all about science and animation with lots of computer work. idk though. as a result, i passed science with a C% and was able to go to 9th grade hs. There must of had been some kind of umph [motivation], to get me to pass science. Nowadays, i dont have to take anymore science classes. The fun science class was the one learning about the periodic table. I rocked out on that one. That was first introduced in high school. On those quizes with all of its stuff added to the periodic table, i Aced them once i knew what i was doing. it was like 12-15 where i got all A%'s. along with the periodic tables, there is the neutrons, protons, and electrons... That was the easy part of science. The hard stuff was biology in college and stuff like that. I liked chemistry that was okay. i did well in that class too for college. I never took chemistry in high school.

when i was younger, i looked up to Linkin Park, and still do. i'm glad i "met" them in such ways "Happy tears"

 

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Amazing story, Hybrid! I really enjoyed it.

 

we know its tough and its appreciated your story is great

 

Yeah, it's hard looking back but sometimes when you look back at the past and see what you have in the present.... It only gives you hope for the future.

 

There's a lot of good stories here. There's so much, and they're really inspiring. I can't really comment on it all.

 

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hybrid theory and meteora made me survive through high school
MTM: if i have a feeling or a thought that needs to change MTM changes it to a positive feeling and there this guy i know that suffers from deppresion and that album helps him alot better than any treatment.
ATS: full of fantasies makes me imagine some of the most coolest things that i would never think about before.

overall linkin park changed alot of things for me and it has had a positive effect over me

 

so many amazing stories! thank you derek and each one of you for sharing em
although I don't have a 'great' story like you fellas to tell about, but ironically I too was a similar victim of bullying, health problems and inferiority complex where Linkin Park played a extremely big role in my life, without whom I imagine what how would I be today, each one of them being ordinary human beings were always examples for me how they are great by just being ordinary. And yes, even I met the love of my life, another one of many things I owe them

edit: since I live in india and they have never come here (nor I never got a chance to fly elsewhere) being a die-hard fan for over eight years, I still didn't have the privilege to see them perform live or meet them, a promise I made to myself that one day when I do, the first thing I'll do is say a big 'THANK YOU (for everything)'

 

Oh god. I honestly hate bullying but you know, the most awesome people known on this world were bullied. Everyone who has ever got bullied, remember that.

For my own story, I wish it wouldn't be like this but it is. I wish I could have listened to LP as young, you know I wish I could say WOW I have been listening to them since I was that young or you know what I mean? Well it's simply impossible. You see, when I was a kid, at the age of.. almost 8, school was soon starting. Summer break. My mom had something to say. At the time I had the radio on. The news were horrible, my best friend, that I was mostly waiting to see, had been shot, killed by her own mother. At the time in the end played on the radio and... ever since that I couldn't listen to LP. I grew over the fact she was dead, but whenever I heard LP those same feelings were awoken, over and over again.

At around 2008 I gave them a shot, and it was the most amazing thing I have ever chosen to do. It wasn't until The Catalyst when my love for them suddenly became an unhealthy obsession. I swear, money is spent, my free time is circulating around them, everything is linkin park in my head. And for many reasons. Instead of telling you guys over and over again why I love this guys more than my own life, I can tell you one thing. I relate to them. Many people are mean in my life and it just feels like Linkin park is there listening to me instead of me listening to them, they seem to understand me, because not many people, even my best friends sometimes choose to listen to me. It's like they are trying to soothe me, they are my consolation, and to be honest my best friend. Sure, I have lots of friends, some that I love more than myself, but linkin parks music is something that will never annoy me, never yell at me and never leave my side. And it just feels like someone believes in me.

I like to think myself that it's my dead friend who made me listen to linkin park. I can't explain why. It just feels like it's her will. And nowadays I just feel so much better with them. I met so many people thanks to them.