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0:00[Music]
0:05you wouldn't know it but linkin park
0:07were actually one of the biggest bands
0:08in the world for the good part of a
0:10decade since their wildly successful new
0:12metal debut the band's discography has
0:14sold more than 100 million copies
0:15worldwide beginning as a rap metal group
0:17in the early 2000s the band would begin
0:19cycling through their own iterations of
0:21alternative rock electronica metal and
0:24more leaving old fans behind them with
0:27every new transition and sound the band
0:29now remain in a sort of limbo with the
0:31tragic loss of their lead vocalist but
0:33appear hopeful in returning to the
0:35project in the near future as someone
0:37who moved on from the band after their
0:38first couple of releases i decided to
0:40venture through the rest of their
0:41catalog to understand what happened to
0:44linkin park
0:45[Music]
0:50before linkin park would find success
0:51they would first meet failure high
0:53school friends mike shinoda and brad
0:55delson envisioned creating a band that
0:57would defy genre blending their favorite
0:59styles of hip-hop and rock in a way that
1:01hadn't been done before together with
1:03drummer rob borden they would form the
1:04band zero in 1996 in art college mike
1:07would meet dj joseph han and invite him
1:10to join xero adding a whole new
1:11dimension to their sound meanwhile at
1:13ucla brad was roommating with the band's
1:16eventual bassist dave farrell and by
1:181997 the band were recording demos with
1:20fellow high school alum mark wakefield
1:22on vocals
1:30playing small gigs would soon earn them
1:31enough attention to open four system of
1:33a down in la and scouters at that same
1:36show would help land them a development
1:37deal with zaba music the band knew they
1:39had something special here and decided
1:42to double down on their efforts but over
1:44the next three years zero would be
1:45rejected by every major and independent
1:48label in the business the band would
1:49make the difficult decision of dropping
1:51mark and begin the search for a new
1:53vocalist zomba's vp of anr jeff blue
1:56would help the band find chester
1:57bennington eventually sending him an
1:59instrumental track to record his vocals
2:01over a few days later chester was in
2:03hollywood at zero's rehearsal space
2:05riding with the group they soon
2:06rebranded themselves as hybrid theory
2:09and released their self-titled ep in
2:101999.
2:19the band began garnering some serious
2:20attention online after spamming their
2:22music and message boards but trying to
2:24capture the attention of record
2:25companies continually proved more
2:27difficult their demos were met with
2:29denial every single time from a label's
2:32perspective linkin park weren't creating
2:33anything too different from the rest of
2:35the new metal explosion of the early
2:372000s and signing another band in an
2:39already oversaturated genre was risky
2:42and redundant luckily the band still had
2:45someone who believed in them jeff blue
2:47who is now vp at warner bros records he
2:49helped sign the band as a developing
2:51artist and advised that they changed
2:53their name yet again this time to avoid
2:55confusion with the electronic group
2:56hybrid the newly named linkin park were
2:59finally signed to a major label in 2000
3:01leading to the release of their debut
3:03record later that year
3:11written and recorded in just four weeks
3:13many of the songs were simply rewritten
3:15and polished versions of the demos that
3:17saw them rejected by virtually every
3:19label on numerous occasions it was a
3:21risky move the genre fusion of metal and
3:23hip-hop was nearing its pinnacle and
3:25mainstream popularity but the genre
3:27would end up peaking with linkin park's
3:29hybrid theory the band were taking the
3:30basics of the rap metal fusion and
3:32getting rid of the corny personas and
3:34profanity that had become associated
3:36with the genre they expanded the sound
3:37to include atmospheric electronics
3:40[Music]
3:42while striking a great balance between
3:44angry and vulnerable lyricism
3:52the effortless interplay between
3:53chester's throat treading and mike's
3:55rhymes were also pretty refreshing
4:01[Music]
4:04simply put linkin park's new metal
4:06didn't feel like a gimmick they were
4:08truly passionate about their sound and
4:09created catchy and relatable anthems
4:11that quickly connected them to a legion
4:13of fans who saw emotional depth in their
4:15heavy music plus it carried no parental
4:17advisory sticker which moms and radio
4:19stations adored hybrid theory would be
4:21the year's best-selling album with
4:23nearly 5 million copies sold to date the
4:25album has been certified diamond and has
4:27sold over 30 million copies worldwide
4:30the group set out on an extensive
4:31american tour working on new material in
4:33their makeshift tour bus studio and
4:35putting together the remix album
4:37reanimation in their downtime
4:40[Music]
4:45writing would continue at mike's home
4:46studio following their tour and once
4:48production started the band were just
4:50going for it as their contemporaries
4:52scrambled to evolve and hang on to their
4:54fan base linkin park decided to craft
4:56more of what had garnered them
4:57international success
5:05despite the increasingly taboo rap metal
5:07formula linkin park fans were hooked and
5:10begging for more expanding on their
5:11debut meteor delivered a concise and
5:14more refined track list you have the
5:15hybrid like cuts don't stay and hit the
5:17floor
5:24but then complete diversions like
5:26nobody's listening
5:27[Music]
5:30[Applause]
5:32and everything left's a waste of time an
5:33almost entirely hip-hop track featuring
5:35japanese bamboo flutes and breaking the
5:38habit an atmospheric ballad featuring a
5:40string section and some of the group's
5:42best lyricism
5:50meteoro would go on to sell tens of
5:52millions of copies leading to a number
5:54of side projects including a mashup ep
5:56with jay-z
6:03but with how similar meteoro was to
6:05hybrid theory and sound it raised the
6:07questions of where linkin park would go
6:09next and if there even was a place for
6:12their sound to go at all it was now 2005
6:15and rap metal was dead after touring in
6:17support of meteora a following release
6:19would be temporarily shelved mike
6:21shinoda formed the hip-hop side project
6:23fort minor and chester bennington
6:24started the rock super group dead by
6:26sunrise
6:27for the sake of their artistic integrity
6:29linkin park couldn't do the same thing a
6:31third time so rick rubin the career
6:33rebooting producer began helping the
6:35band find a sound they could continue
6:37pursuing moving forward
6:39[Music]
6:45minutes to midnight would be their most
6:47diverse group of tracks thus far
6:49carrying a more stripped down punk sound
6:51some classic rock flair
6:55[Music]
6:59and fewer hip-hop stylings with mike
7:01only rapping on two songs here we go but
7:03a hundred times in every line throw em
7:06up and let some shine going out of my
7:08[ __ ] mind joe's turntable scratching
7:10virtually disappeared and even their
7:12guitarists seem to have taken a back
7:14seat on the project linkin park's third
7:16album failed to perform as well as their
7:18first two records i mean it still sold
7:2020 million copies and when it came to
7:23single power minutes to midnight had
7:25plenty of it
7:28[Music]
7:32what i've done would be their most
7:34commercially successful single in part
7:36because it was used as the main theme of
7:372007's transformers linkin park's
7:40reinvention would come with the obvious
7:42criticisms that they had sold out and
7:44went mainstream their audience was one
7:46where they either didn't want change or
7:49they'd outgrown the band regardless the
7:51group had set themselves up for
7:52continued relevance in the alternative
7:54rock category and had you held on linkin
7:57park was just about to get a hell of a
7:58lot more interesting the band would work
8:00with film composer han zimmer to score
8:02the second transformers film before
8:04heading back into the studio with rick
8:05rubin to wrap up their fourth record a
8:07thousand sons
8:10[Music]
8:15linkin park proclaimed that this new
8:16record wasn't going to be like any of
8:18their previous albums but rather a
8:20cutting-edge sound separate from
8:22anything they'd done before and to be
8:24honest they kind of pulled it off spoken
8:27word samples synth loops industrial and
8:29house elements a handful of interludes a
8:31thousand suns has been called linkin
8:33park's kid a or their dark side of the
8:35moon
8:43not in technicalities of course but in
8:45spirit it's an art rock album and it
8:47works best when it's experienced from
8:49start to finish it's also a concept
8:51record dealing with themes of nuclear
8:53war and the end of humanity regret fear
8:56anger sadness and even hope are emotions
8:59that litter the album and it all builds
9:00towards humanity's last moments before
9:03the bombs dropped
9:07[Music]
9:11a thousand suns was a good record just
9:13not the good record that die hards
9:15wanted from linkin park this was a
9:17complete departure from their guitar
9:18heavy work that weaved seamlessly
9:20through a number of genres thanks to a
9:22handful of interludes despite the new
9:24direction and sound the album still sold
9:26really well this was linkin park after
9:29all but this was not the old linkin park
9:31leaving a lot of early fans to move on
9:34[Music]
9:40the band would begin producing their
9:41fifth record living things while on tour
9:44eventually inviting rick rubin to
9:45co-produce with mike shinoda for a third
9:47time the band wanted to bring back the
9:49energy of their older material for a
9:51more overall comprehensive sound and
9:53that description is pretty spot on
9:55living things is an electronically
9:56charged reboot of hybrid theory it
9:58contains the aggressive and moody nature
10:00of their first two records
10:03[Music]
10:08some of the balladry from minutes to
10:10midnight
10:10[Music]
10:17while leaning further into the
10:18electronics of a thousand suns
10:21[Music]
10:26it does have a few fun experiments like
10:28the folk inspired castle of glass
10:37although it's not nearly as ambitious as
10:39their previous record adhering more to
10:41one genre and some fairly
10:42straightforward songwriting re-embracing
10:45the rap rock formula living things seems
10:47to have been an attempt at wooing back
10:49alienated fans but it's a formula that
10:51wears thin towards its second half as
10:53the band begins sounding like a complete
10:55parody of themselves the right energy
10:57had returned but their sound was far
10:59from their new metal origins they soon
11:01released a second remix lp in 2013.
11:06[Applause]
11:09then before heading out on the living
11:11things world tour mike would start on
11:13demos for a follow-up record sounds that
11:15were in line with that of their previous
11:16two records which the band and reuben
11:18felt pretty positive about but soon
11:20after their tour mike was appalled by
11:22those very same demos deciding to scrap
11:25them entirely and begin again from
11:27scratch
11:30[Music]
11:34for the first time since meteora rick
11:36rubin wouldn't return and after the
11:38producer's departure the band's
11:40electronic sound went along with it the
11:42hunting party was yet another reboot a
11:44full return to rock and the heaviest
11:46they've ever sounded
11:51[Applause]
11:54using hybrid theory as a template linkin
11:56park wanted to bring their debut into
11:582014 but this record is much more metal
12:01than new metal was guitarist brad delson
12:03and drummer rob borden sound like
12:05they're a part of the band again being
12:06given a chance to show off their talents
12:08with plenty of guitar solos and
12:09hammering drums
12:12[Music]
12:17system over down and rage against the
12:19machine members would join the album too
12:21but you would hardly notice they were
12:22even there had they not been credited
12:24and much of the record is like that
12:26unnoticeable and just not very
12:29interesting this would be the band's
12:30first record to not reach number one
12:32since hybrid theory debuting at number
12:34three on the billboard 200. it still
12:36sold a couple million copies it was
12:38linkin park but this was an album the
12:40band were meant to be making years ago
12:42and as a result it just sounds dated
12:45this record sounded more like the linkin
12:46park old heads would remember but most
12:49of those old heads had already forgotten
12:51about linkin park the hunting party was
12:53shinoda's response to feeling that the
12:54current modern rock landscape was weak
12:57and sounded like disney commercial music
12:59but then they'd go and release one more
13:01light
13:03[Music]
13:08in the strangest twist of fate linkin
13:10park decided to say goodbye to rock
13:12altogether one more light was a
13:14transition towards pop that divided fans
13:17more than ever before not because it was
13:20pop linkin park have arguably always had
13:22a pop element to them one more light
13:24just wasn't very good
13:33the band is nearly unrecognizable in
13:35just one record linkin park went from
13:38this
13:43to this
13:50on the bright side it continued the
13:52band's willingness to push the
13:53boundaries of their sound i guess but
13:56seriously who was linkin park making
13:58this record for the early new metal
14:00crowd had left some sometime after
14:01minutes to midnight the electro pop fans
14:03would stick around until maybe the
14:05hunting party and when they'd finally
14:06taken a step towards hard rock they went
14:09sugary pop the next who was going to
14:11stick around after this fans and just
14:13plain music listeners were straight up
14:15disappointed and the band had had it
14:17with fans continually asking for more
14:19like hybrid theory but just prior to
14:21this record they were using their debut
14:23as a blueprint this massive overhaul
14:25just didn't make sense and felt
14:27inauthentic to the band
14:31two months following the album's release
14:32the world lost chester bennington after
14:34he had committed suicide at his home in
14:36california with no note and having just
14:39gone on vacation with family it came as
14:41a shock to his loved ones the band and
14:44fans understandably the group would
14:46cancel their upcoming world tour and
14:48move into a hiatus following a tribute
14:50event in honor of chester the band has
14:52since struggled with the idea of how to
14:53move forward with linkin park without
14:55their lead singer and more recently
14:57they've revealed that they'd been
14:58writing just before the pandemic struck
15:00but that it had been put on hold since
15:02so for now we wait with patience and
15:05curiosity as to where linkin park will
15:07go next but chester will live on in the
15:10hearts of the millions of fans that
15:11still listen to linkin park today
15:14for a period of time linkin park were
15:16one of the biggest bands in the world
15:18their first two albums saw them empower
15:20a generation and it appears their
15:21following records would continue to do
15:23so for some time some of us just didn't
15:26need them anymore they're a band that
15:27continually evolved their sound either
15:30in an attempt to keep their heads above
15:31water or in trying to recapture the
15:34glory that came with their debut a
15:36thousand suns is definitely a gem i
15:38hadn't yet discovered and i can
15:40definitely share in every fan's
15:41disappointment after finally listening
15:43to one more light in the end it doesn't
15:46even matter linkin park have more than
15:48solidified themselves in popular culture
15:50with a number of stylistic releases that
15:52are sure to please or simply remind you
15:55of your childhood angst
15:58[Music]
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