I like the lyrical part, but the drop is really lame and I think the song could be better without it. But it sounds plausible that the performance is a mash-up, which features only this little singing part of the original song and the rest is taken from other songs. So not all hope is lost!
I thought it sounded nice altogether. I'll reserve judgement until we hear the real track. I was surprised to hear Mike sing and not rap. Is this the first time he's sung in a collaboration, outside of All for Nothing? (which doesn't really count, I feel like that was entirely an LP track with Paige guitar and vocals on top, vs. other collabs where both artists are designing the song) But yeah, the lyrics are ok. Still better than Mike's raps on ALTNC.
Those drops do seem very out of place on the song and don't really fit the darker tone of the song. So it is plausible that we might get a whole different drop on the official version of the song.
I am not really hearing that. To me it sounds like: "Darker than the blood" And "You are/were not the animal" (this is probably wrong) I could be totally off through.(which is most likely). I like the vocals, the beat was just... meeh.
It's: Darker than the night Higher than the sun This is not the end I'm not sure what the last line is. There are definitely more syllables than just "you are not the end" I'm thinking it's "you are not the end of us"
for whatever reason you can't hear the beginning of the song in that video you can hear the whole thing here https://soundcloud.com/omgfilip/steve-aoki-ft-linkin-park-horizons-live-in-chicago-28022015
I don't like EDM at all... But I quite liked Recharged and "A Light That Never Comes"... And I like the live version of "Horizons" pretty much.