Line #9 YMMV/LinkinPark


1	Opinions on the band range from "original, creative, and awesome enough to be their own genre" to "insufferably emo."
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3	* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail:
4	** Many fans' reactions to ''Reanimation'', due to the fact that it was a huge risk to have a remix album after only the first studio album. However, to this day it is popular with the fanbase.
5	** "Nobody's Listening" is a TakeThat to people who thought this of the band in general.
6	* {{Anvilicious}}: While some may argue a few songs fits the trope, the closest contender is "Heavy", which isn't the slightest bit subtle with describing what it's like to have depression. Considering that the person who wrote it killed himself not long after it was released, [[TropesAreTools it's important that it be heard]].
7	* AudienceAlienatingEra: For a certain part of the fanbase, it started the moment ''Music/MinutesToMidnight'' hit the shelves and the band officially decided to move away from the very distinct style they made a name for themselves with. Whether or not they ever got out of it depends entirely on who you ask.
8	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: While every Linkin Park album not named ''Hybrid Theory'' or ''Meteora'' has generally received eye-rolls and groans from finicky fans, the reaction to ''One More Light'' being a straight up contemporary pop album with virtually no rock instrumentation or rapping, the farthest-removed from anything they'd ever done prior, was '''''volatile'''''. Both fans and detractors called it the only Linkin Park album that sounded as if it was by anyone other than Linkin Park. After Chester Bennington's death, it also feels uncomfortably like you're listening to a long, drawn-out suicide note.
9	* BrokenBase:
10	** It would be easier to list the stylistic phases that the band went through that ''didn't'' divide fans. Are only their first two albums worthwhile? Is everything after worthwhile? Were they always good? Was their weaker stuff really that bad, or was it just not as good as their better stuff? And the mother of them all: '''should they have stuck with NuMetal or not?'''
11	** More controversially, there's some debate about whether ''One More Light'' is better with the knowledge that it was more personal than the "generic pop" label it was slapped with upon release, or if it's still not good and is only getting more positive feedback because people [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead don't want to speak ill of Chester now that he's dead]].
12	* CatharsisFactor: A big appeal to the band's music. What better way to deal with repressed anger than with loud guitars, angsty lyrics and {{metal scream}}ing?
13	* CommonKnowledge: One popular misconception is that "Breaking the Habit" was written by Chester Bennington about his struggles with addiction. In reality, it was written by Mike Shinoda about a friend's substance abuse problems before he even ''met'' Bennington.
14	* DeadHorseGenre: Why the band decided to move on from NuMetal after their first two albums, for better or worse. Ironically, ''Minutes To Midnight'' was criticized for capitalizing on {{alternative rock}} and {{emo\|music}} just as those genres were losing steam (and for [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks not being nu metal]]).
15	* DiscreditedMeme: Chester Bennington's suicide brought a giant sledgehammer to the criticisms of his music being "whiny", as it proved once and for all that the perceived {{wangst}} was ''not'' a put-on or an [[FirstWorldProblems exaggeration]]. Now, if you look back on their songs, you'll find endless comments of fans mourning his death and getting angry at the once-common jokes that are now considered very unacceptable.
16	* EpicRiff: "One Step Closer", "Faint", and the distinctive piano notes of "In the End".
17	* FandomRivalry:
18	** Many Music/{{Deftones}} fans are resentful towards Linkin Park for allegedly copying the band's sound. Deftones are indeed a major influence on the band, although many Linkin Park fans enjoy Deftones, and the two bands have gone on tour together many times.
19	*** Also, there's the fact that two members of Deftones contributed to ''Reanimation'', with Stephen Carpenter playing guitar on "By_Myslf" and Chino Moreno's Team Sleep remixing "My December", [[WhatCouldHaveBeen which was deemed too dark for the album and has never been released]]. There's also the fact that Chino contributed to one of the songs on Mike's solo album ''Post Traumatic''.
20	** There's also one between LP and Music/LimpBizkit fans, arguments over which band is better are common, though LP have admitted to being fans of LB.
21	* FriendlyFandoms: With fellow angsty 2000s band Music/Sum41, especially after fans of both bands noted how well Deryck Whibley performed some LP songs with the remaining members of the band after Chester's death, leading to a VocalMinority who believe he would be the perfect new singer for them.
22	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Their appearance in ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'''s soundtrack. Chester basically brings his A-game, MetalScream and all...[[MundaneMadeAwesome and he's singing about the stuff in someone's Jeep]].
23	* GatewaySeries:
24	** Let's just say more than a few metalheads were introduced to hard rock/metal through this band. Whether or not they admit it is [[GuiltyPleasures another story]]. And if you're young enough and have not heard any of the Music/BeastieBoys, Linkin Park could have also been a gateway to the "eccentric" AlternativeRock scene with bands like Music/{{U2}} and Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}, due to their experimenting with electronic and HipHop elements.
25	** An [[http://afropunk.com/2017/07/linkin-park-black-kids-hard-rock/ AfroPunk article]] released shortly after Chester Bennington's death mentioned how the band was especially integral in getting black kids into hard rock. Not only was their music heavily influenced by hip-hop (their mashup album with Music/JayZ was a huge help), but it offered kids of color the opportunity to express the kind of cathartic anger they otherwise never got to.
26	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: To say that the band has a '''massive''' fan following in Asia would be an {{understatement}}. Many kids of TheNineties and the early 2000s would unanimously agree that Linkin Park was the first American band they ever listened to.
27	* GrowingTheBeard: ''A Thousand Suns'' was ''supposed'' to be this. Whether or not it succeeded [[BrokenBase depends on who you ask]].
28	* HarsherInHindsight: [[HarsherInHindsight/LinkinPark Enough to warrant its own page.]]
29	* HilariousInHindsight:
30	** "One Step Closer" and "Numb", two of Linkin Park's most well-known songs, share the same names with two lesser-known Music/{{U2}} songs. Now, what was one of the complaints about [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong "Shadow of the Day"]]? The fact that U2's "One Step Closer" came out four years after [=LP=]'s song doesn't make this any less funny.
31	*** Not to mention, during the tribute concert to Chester Bennington, the band with Music/{{Yellowcard}}'s Ryan Key segues from "Shadow of the Day" to "With or Without You."
32	** Mike's side project is most known for "Remember the Name", though most people couldn't tell who performs it if they heard it. Also hilarious is that Fort Minor's actual big hit was "Where'd You Go?", which has gone out of people's memories whereas "Remember the Name" is the song that is "remembered" today.
33	*** Doubly hilarious considering that in "Step Up", from their 1999 ''Hybrid Theory'' EP, Mike Shinoda dissed Top 40 hip-hop when calling out all the "phony rappers" on the market. Come ''The Rising Tied'', his solo hip-hop project, and his single "Where'd You Go" topped the very charts he was dissing years back.
34	** After Creator/IdinaMenzel's "Let It Go" in ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' made a much bigger impression on pop culture than "Iridescent", the repetition of the lyrics "Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?" and "Let it go" are hilarious to listen to. Doubly funny, considering that "Iridescent" was [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon also used as a theme song for a movie.]]
35	*** [[https://www.chideo.com/chideo/linkin-park-mike-shinoda-keys-to-the-kingdom According to Mike]], the band actually tried to drop a reference to ''Frozen'' in the outro of "Keys to the Kingdom", saying "The cold never bothered me anyway" at the end, but nixed the idea after Disney's legal team got involved. They changed it to a kid saying [[{{Meta}} "I'm not allowed to say certain things! AAAAUGH!"]]
36	** Not to mention that there had been two cases when the band performed their live ballad medley (consisting of "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent"), Mike would swap the normal outro of "Iridescent" with bits of "Let It Go".
37	** One from the band's tribute concert: Music/AvengedSevenfold's frontman M. Shadows singing "Burn It Down"
38	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Many of the responses from fans towards ''Meteora'', as well as ''Reanimation'' due the mere nature of a remix album (especially one so early in the band's career).
39	* JustHereForGodzilla: Had the ''One More Light'' arena tour gone as planned, it's safe to assume that most of the concertgoers would have been there for their old material ([[FirstInstallmentWins noticing a]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks pattern here?]]).
40	* MemeticMutation:
41	** The choruses of both "Crawling" and "In the End" basically became the theme songs for mocking the band and/or the {{wangst}}y {{Emo Teen}}s associated with them, as well as other LP appearances such as Chester's cameo in ''Film/Saw3D'', [[spoiler:where he's in a trap that involves him ripping off his ''skin'', and ultimately fails the trap and is killed -- so in the end, it didn't even matter]]. However, as mentioned above, Chester's death seems to have taken these jokes with it.
42	*** The fan-edit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYDQIfoE1w "Crawling in My Crawl,"]] in which all the key words in the lyrics are replaced with "crawl," is either a mockery of this meme or the greatest example of it.
43	*** The funny thing is when somebody tried putting the lines from "In the End" on a Website/{{Facebook}} comment, Facebook ''refused to let it be posted because of "suicidal themes"''. Of course, considering what happened to Chester, they most likely ''[[HarsherInHindsight were]]''.
44	** We have a rapist in Linkin Park.[[labelnote:Explanation]]This particular line came from the same infamous news interview from Antoine Dodson that spawned [[WebVideo/AutoTuneTheNews the "Bed Intruder" song]]. Obviously, the fact that Lincoln also sounds like "Linkin" did not go unnoticed.[[/labelnote]]
45	** Where is the old LP?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Began circulation among the [[BrokenBase divided fanbase]] upon release of ''Minutes to Midnight''.[[/labelnote]]
46	** "Try the ketchup, motherfucker!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A mishearing of a line from the chorus of "When They Come for Me" ("''Try to catch up'', motherfucker!") that the Internet ran with. There was even a [[http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33320 fan shirt]] of the misheard line, with Mike wearing a tuxedo. Funnily enough, the shirt [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzWXFE_gpYA definitely got Mike's attention]].[[/labelnote]]
47	** Is this Carousel?[[labelnote:Explanation]]In 2020, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ''Music/HybridTheory'', three of the members (Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell) got back together during a video call to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3mk142cZjI react to one of their old concerts from 2001]]. When they came across "And One," a song from their lesser known ''Hybrid Theory'' EP (released a year before the album) that they hadn't played since 2002, they struggled to remember its name. Phoenix initially thought that it was "Carousel", the opening track of the EP, and his confused guess was later perpetuated as a meme.[[/labelnote]]
48	** "I ordered a frappuccino. Where's my fuckin' frappuccino?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A bit of StudioChatter from Chester at the beginning of ''Collision Course.''[[/labelnote]]
49	** "I will not dance even if the beat's funky."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from "When They Come for Me" that got some mileage online, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220820123229/https://pics.me.me/meatbicyclevevo-when-you-refuse-to-dance-even-if-the-beat-31421493.png by itself]] or in combination with the preceding line ("I'm not a robot, I'm not a monkey").[[/labelnote]]
50	** X but if it came out in 2007[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Website/{{Twitter}} meme based on the ending of the first ''Film/{{Transformers\|2007}}'' film (a 2007 release), which plays "What I've Done" underneath an Optimus Prime speech and times it so that the chorus hits just as the film cuts to black and rolls credits. It likely began with [[https://twitter.com/blurayangel/status/1562511750355767301 this viral tweet]], which praised the use of LP as "one of the greatest creative decisions in cinematic history", after which tweets began cropping up of other films and TV show endings being re-edited to include "What I've Done" in a similar fashion and presented with the title "[Film/TV show] but if it came out in 2007". Films and shows that have gotten the 2007 treatment includes ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]'' (see [[https://twitter.com/BakiKayaArt/status/1562877305126780928 here]]), ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' (see [[https://twitter.com/PhaseZeroCB/status/1562548409726533634 here]]), ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (see [[https://twitter.com/HeroesFanProd/status/1562855268803018752 here]]), ''Film/BatmanBegins'' (see [[https://twitter.com/HeroesFanProd/status/1562358024404013056 here]]), ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' (see [[https://twitter.com/bluboy43/status/1561030914620243968 here]]), and ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'' (see [[https://twitter.com/Mahvlson/status/1563211312288903169 here]]). It eventually spread so much that the Twitter account of Creator/{{Paramount}}, the distributors of the live-action film series, got in on the fun and gave ''Transformers'' [[ShapedLikeItself itself]] the 2007 treatment by [[https://twitter.com/ParamountPics/status/1563299335898480641 just posting the original ending]].[[/labelnote]]
51	** In The Virtual End[[labelnote:Explanation]]A ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''-themed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9J6DKJXoKk version of "In The End"]] which became a popular meme in 2022.[[/labelnote]]
52	** "X To The Tune Of Linkin Park"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A popular meme on the Brazilian internet that started with a viral edit of the Rock Lee vs. Gaara fight from Naruto with [[https://youtu.be/VgDgWzBL7s4 "In The End" as the sondtrack]]. Several other videos were made in this style, from other popular battles in fiction to [[https://youtu.be/VRpjNMweZbw funny videos of people and/or animals fighting]] and even [[https://youtu.be/yH92brlYPj8 white blood cells fighting off bacteria!]][[/labelnote]]
53	* MisaimedFandom:
54	** Chester wrote "Crawling" about his struggles with abuse as a child, and "Papercut" about his struggling with meth addiction. Both quickly became anthems for suburban teenagers bitching about FirstWorldProblems. This was a major catalyst for the band wanting to move away from the nu-metal genre.
55	** Similar to the above, "One Step Closer" is seen as an angst anthem when it's really just about the band getting mad at their producer for making them do endless retakes of "Runaway."
56	** "Bleed It Out" ''sounds'' like it's a song about {{self harm}}, but it's just as meta as "One Step Closer"—it's about WritersBlock, hence the first lyric being "Yeah, here we go for the hundredth time".
57	** "Valentine's Day" is often labeled as an emo teen break-up. It's actually about a funeral.
58	---> And the ground below grew colder
59	--->'''As they put you down inside…'''
60	* MisattributedSong:
61	** Can't find info on a certain song? Make sure it's not by Fort Minor, Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, or Tribal Ink (or Kansas of all things).
62	** "I Just Want Your Company" is not by Linkin Park but by Music/HedPE.
63	** Also, that's not Shinoda rapping on Music/{{Evanescence}}'s "Bring Me to Life". That's Paul [=McCoy=] of 12 Stones.
64	* {{Narm}}:
65	** "''I [[TitleDrop bleed it out]], digging deeper just to throw it away''…" Uh, is Chester talking about [[SelfHarm self-mutilation]] or tampons? (Neither, it turns out -- he's talking about WritersBlock.)
66	** The interactive video for "Lost in the Echo" pulled basically randomly from photos of your Facebook friends, meaning it either worked really well or it didn't. Mike Shinoda himself confessed that the version he got had someone crying over a ham sandwich.
67	** The music video for "Lost" uses AI animation, something that has become a very controversial topic in the 2020s, making it feel unfitting for such a song.
68	* NarmCharm: Chester's MetalScream. So [[CarefulWithThatAxe over the top]], and that's exactly what makes it so ''awesome''!
69	* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/LinkinPark Now has its own page.]]
70	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The band's signature combination of NuMetal, AlternativeRock, HipHop, various ElectronicMusic subgenres and {{Pop}} sensibility was fairly original for its time; nowadays, [[FollowTheLeader thanks to all the imitators]], they're often accused of having copied their signature sound from some other band. They caught onto this pretty quickly and wanted to do a stylistic overhaul right after ''Hybrid Theory'', but ExecutiveMeddling kept them from doing so until ''Minutes to Midnight''.
71	* OlderThanTheyThink:
72	** The 2010s-era electropop sound that ''One More Light'' was famously blasted for was not the first time the band recorded music like that. Their first attempt at that style was, of all things, a collaboration with Music/TheLonelyIsland two years earlier called "Things In My Jeep," off of the soundtrack to ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping''.
73	** While ''One More Light'' was their most significant deviation, the band was experimenting with different styles and genres all the way back to ''Meteora'', and even some unreleased music from the ''Hybrid Theory'' era (such as "She Couldn't") deviated quite a lot from their nu-metal niche.
74	* PeripheryDemographic:
75	** As mentioned above, the band has had a dedicated African American audience from the beginning, mostly due to their hip-hop influence. Music/LupeFiasco himself has said that ''Hybrid Theory'' is one of his favorite albums of all time.
76	** Thanks to the band's use of anime imagery in their early work (especially the iconic HumongousMecha on the cover of ''Reanimation''), they're very popular with anime fans. There are an ungodly amount of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' [=AMVs=] set to Linkin Park songs.
77	** ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fans, too, thanks to their music being featured in the first three live-action films.
78	** Thanks to their frequent collaborations and experimentation with hip-hop, they had a [[https://power1051.iheart.com/content/2017-07-20-hip-hop-remembers-becoming-linkin-park-fans-after-jay-z-collaboration/ large following]] with hip-hop fans too. After Chester's death, many folks in the community [[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7873829/linkin-park-hip-hop-collaborations-jay-z paid tribute]] to him and [[http://uproxx.com/realtalk/chester-bennington-linkin-park-jay-z-hip-hop-benefactor/ how the band]] [[http://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.3833/title.how-linkin-park-shredded-rap-rock-stigmas-for-hip-hop-purists# was a close]] [[http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/07/hip-hop-reacts-death-linkin-park-chester-bennington/ friend]] of the genre.
79	* PosthumousPopularityPotential: While the band was active, they attracted a ton of mockery due to their lyrics often being seen as pure {{Wangst}}. After Chester's death, many music publications began re-evaluating the band's music more positively. ''Stereogum'' praised them as the last big rock band to make a huge debut, concluding that the constant {{Genre Shift}}ing is what helped them maintain their relevance before the major changes in the music industry made it next to impossible for a rock band to ever reach those kinds of heights. Others put a more positive spin on their unflattering "emo" label by saying that the unambiguous angst of their music was hugely cathartic for people with depression, with droves of millennials coming out on social media to back this claim up.
80	* QuestionableCasting:
81	** Anybody else think it's a little strange to hear Chester [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I9ucQXkVOU on the same song as G-Unit's Young Buck]]?
82	** This is how many people felt about Music/{{Stormzy}}'s verse on "Good Goodbye", with the main criticism being that it was too cringe-inducing and self-indulgent.
83	* SignatureSong:
84	** "In The End","Numb", and "Crawling" are some of their most iconic songs, in part thanks to MemeticMutation. "One Step Closer", "Breaking the Habit", and "Somewhere I Belong" are also contenders. After changing styles, "What I've Done", "New Divide", "Iredescent" (all three mostly thanks to Film/TransformersFilmSeries) and "Burn It Down" fit this.
85	** Tragically, "One More Light", which fans (and even critics) connected to Chester after his death.
86	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
87	** "Session" is this to the hidden track featured at the end of "Part of Me" on the Hybrid Theory EP, to the point that fans often assumed that it was a reworking. Mike has stated that he never made the correlation between the songs at the time, and their similarity is unintentional.
88	** "Shadow of the Day" sounds quite similar to [[Music/{{U2}} "With or Without You"]], and various remixes combining the songs can be found online. In the October 2017 tribute to Chester Bennington at the Hollywood Bowl, the band segues from this song to "With or Without You" while performing with guest singer [[Music/YellowCard Ryan Key]].
89	** Likewise, the intro to "What I've Done" and the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' theme.
90	** "Heavy" sounds almost exactly like "[[Music/TheChainsmokers Closer]]", complete with having a female guest singer getting a verse and singing in a duet.
91	** The main chorus of "Heavy" also sounds similar to the Creator/PaulWalker tribute song "See You Again". To this end, several remixes combining the songs can be found online.
92	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While far from the only ones, Linkin Park are easily one of the most notorious examples of a band whose decision to depart from their SignatureStyle was met with nothing but contempt, if only because theirs was so distinct. Critical reception from ''Minutes To Midnight'' on has been generally middling or negative, often referring to their newer styles as "bland." More notoriously, the reception from fans of their NuMetal material has ranged from [[SoOkayItsAverage indifferent and frustrated]] to entitled and volatile, some even outright ''demanding'' that they record more songs that sound like their older ones, or getting offended that they weren't "warned" about these changes. The band has made it quite clear that they hate this reputation and that they don't want to be forced into not evolving as artists.
93	* ToughActToFollow:
94	** Indirectly, their collaboration album with Music/JayZ, ''Collision Course'', served as this for the MTV Mashup series, seeing as the album itself (particularly "[=Numb/Encore=]") garnered critical acclaim and recognition from the UsefulNotes/{{Grammy\|Award}}s.
95	** Their first two albums are hugely popular. How popular? The sales of these two albums are more than the rest of their albums combined. In fact, LP became the best selling artists of the 21st century based on their first two albums alone. However, they never hit those commercial peaks again.
96	* UncertainAudience: "One More Light" album struggled to find an audience. The new metal and electropop fans had largely abandoned the band, and due to band's reputation of being nu-metal band among wider crowd, the pop-oriented listeners were not very keen to listening the album.
97	* VindicatedByHistory: Each NewSoundAlbum tends to get this once the hoopla over the different musical style dies down (or, in worse cases, [[DamnedByFaintPraise isn't thought to suck as much as the new album]]).
98	** ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' was seen by some as a cheap rehash of ''Hybrid Theory'' when it came out, but is now considered an improvement on the groundwork it laid, especially since it's their only other album to feature their SignatureStyle. Those who like their later stuff also appreciate that it showed the early signs of the more experimental music they'd eventually do.
99	** ''Music/AThousandSuns'', once considered by some as one of their worst albums, is now acknowledged as the most ambitious project in their discography with some of their best songs. Many now even consider it their best album, citing the band's handling of the album's concept, the seamless transitions that make a complete front-to-back experience, them showing a willingness to experiment with song structure that wasn't present in the previous albums, and the increased lyrical and sonic depth of the songs.
100	** ''Music/{{The Hunting Party\|2014}}'' brought back some of the band's older fans, but still drew the ire of some detractors who didn't think that they had quite recaptured their old sound. Fans of their newer works also passed it over as the band's attempt to appease their picky fanbase. The album is still divisive nowadays, but has a lot to offer critical fans. Supporters of the album praise the band, Brad and Rob in particular, for seriously improving their skill on their instruments to record the album, and view it not necessarily as an attempt to reproduce their nu-metal sound, but as a tribute to 2000s rock as a whole. Songs like "Mark the Graves" and "A Line in the Sand" are often favorites among this crowd due to them being Linkin Park's first ventures into progressive rock.
101	** While still seen as their weakest album, ''Music/OneMoreLight'' has seen a bit more acceptance in the wake of [[PosthumousPopularityPotential Chester's suicide]], especially since, once you get past the pop sound, it's lyrically his most personal album. At the very least, people generally seem to be a bit more willing to accept that his negative attitude towards the album's reception was less of him being a prima donna and more of a sign that he was ''not'' in a good place, and are willing to acknowledge that the album does have genuinely good songs on it, namely the haunting title track.
102	** The band as a whole saw a re-evaluation in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Since their very start, Linkin Park's reputation for angsty lyrics and performing the oft-mocked genre of nu-metal led to them being labeled as "whiny" music for angry white boys, a title they could never disassociate themselves from no matter how hard they tried. After Bennington's death, these same critics began to re-evaluate their music with the knowledge that the supposed {{wangst}} was really a depressed man purging his demons, giving them a better appreciation for their angry music and their later experimentation.
103	* {{Wangst}}: "Crawling" is a pretty good example to some, even though it's about genuine pain. Ditto with "Numb". Though as previously mentioned, Chester's suicide has made people see that there's more to these songs.
104	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The band has always had a following amongst tweens and young teens despite not being aimed at them. Their first few albums were favorable amongst parents because, though the songs were gloomy and dark, there wasn't much violence, sexuality, or cursing. Their album "Minutes to Midnight" caused controversy because it featured profanity.
105	* WinBackTheCrowd: ''The Hunting Party'' was the band's lone attempt to appease fans who desperately wanted to hear them play rock music again. While generally well-received, it was praised more in theory than in execution and didn't leave much of an impression. And then ''[[BrokenBase One More Light]]'' happened…

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