I couldn't fit a short clever title so I made it one word. As you all know hip-hop is at a high point this summer with two huge releases. Yeezus which came out June 18th, and Magna Carta Holy Grail which comes out in like 2 hours (whoa that "like" took my professionalism in this thought away). Yeezus was an album that was based mainly off of electronic instrumentals, odd structures, and only had a few glimpses into what you were already used to by the artist "Bound 2". Doesn't this sound a little like "A Thousand Suns" and "Wretches And Kings"? On top of that, it is easily the most polarizing album in his discography, thus creating a see-saw of "this is a classic" and "this is awful". MCHG's campaign, while having it's own perks, reminds me of the Living Things campaign. Scavenger hunt? Come on. Although it's not definite that Linkin Park's ways of promotion and writing music as whole has reflected upon works of music that we are hearing today, but doesn't this all sound just too familiar? Seriously, look at Yeezus. Half of the fans are like "you can't accept change, this is art". I remember this back in 2010 with this community.
I think this is just something high profile artists go through if they're serious about music as a passion. People who are inspired don't want to feel complacent, they want something new and daring. Anyone who has the stones to do something out of left field usually gets a very vocal reaction positively or negatively, especially when their fanbases are huge like Linkin Park and Kanye. It's happened before Linkin Park and will continue happening.
Exactly. And to try and imply that these artists copied Linkin Park because there are slight "similarities" is ridiculous.
I don't think any artists try to intentionally ''rip-off'' Linkin Park, like stated previously. However, some bands do try to copy the ''old'' sound of LP IMO, but it doesn't copy LP because everything they have made from MTM onwards is extremely unique and no other band could ever sound like LP anymore because they don't limit themselves to being one thing and making only one kind of music. Partially, this is why I love LP so much. It may seem like I contradicted myself there, but what I mean is that LP is so unique and limitless now that no other band/artist could ever ''rip them off''. Maybe with the sound they had on HT and Meteora, but they have released more material to outweigh that whole sound now.
Nah, Yeezus was the product of Kanye binging on Death Grips over a couple of weekends. I imagine that ATS and Living Things didn't do much of anything outside of the band's core fanbase.
Do people really think that Linkin Park has made anything totally new? The only 'new' thing LP did was having the balls to get away from an overplayed sound. The rest is just already invented.
Sorry, but I totally disagree with this entire statement. Obviously, other music than nu-metal has been invented already. Wtf? Judging by that logic, no music is unique then. About half of MTM wasn't as experimental, but that was because it was intended to bridge the gap between the old LP music and the new LP music. A lot of MTM was super unique. ATS was definitely unique as a whole. I have never heard another band make an album that sounds exactly like ATS at all. LT once again bridged the gap between the old LP style and the new LP style on some songs, but a lot of the songs were unique too. Honestly, the greatest thing the band ever has done is basically say ''fuck what the fans think and what they think we should make. We're going to make music for US and make what we enjoy listening to''. I would hate to be a fan of the band that strictly listens to what their fans want and make music strictly to benefit them.
I would argue that Controlling Crowds by Archive had a similar vibe to ATS while coming out a year before while Faith No More's Angel Dust and King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime beat MTM at the genre-hopping schtick by a full decade and received much more critical acclaim. I really don't think Linkin Park has had as much of an impact on the music world as you think. Let's compare them and, say, Deftones. What did Linkin Park imitators do? They either languished in contemporary Christian music circles (Red, 38th Parallel, Thousand Foot Krutch) or fell off so hard that no one even remembers their names (Trik Turner, Crazy Town, Hollywood Undead in a year or two). Contrast that with Deftones and every goddamn alt-metal band from the past decade claiming them as an influence.