re: Linkin Park New Album November 15th

Kinda listen to a couple of songs from the live stream on the drive home. I know absolutely nothing about vocals, but she wasn’t that good. Although, she was probably very nervous for the first performance. It’s hard to replace Chester, and she was trying a little too hard to replicate his vocals, and it failed. She definitely needs to practice more and train her vocals or lungs or something (maybe a little less raspy vocals?)Her voice was giving out, crackling and didn’t sound on key at parts.

But, I did think she sounded really good on bleed it out and her vocals fit pretty well for that song.


I’m not against a female vocalist, just hope she can get the vocals a little tighter.
I was very much pleased and enjoyed Bonnie Fraser performance with Mike shinoda earlier this year.

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Rob Bourdon left the band.

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Someone else left too, I know they are down 2 post Chester.


Saw rumbles on the interwebs criticizing her as the lead singer and that was the reason that they left... That Mike basically hand picked her to the dismay of others in the band.

Band has been average at best since Minutes to Midnight. Not sure why anyone thought it might be any different.

Brad delson (guitarist) is still with the band according to the billboard article and interviews. So I’m not sure if he had a family emergency or something like that on why he wasn’t there. If he had some scheduled a long time ago, I would have thought they could have done the live stream on a different date.

Maybe he’s only in studio and not touring? Maybe he’s recovering from an injury or surgery, guess we will find out later

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She kinda rocks in her old band

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Saw them open for QOTSA in 2018 and they were really damn good.

No matter what trends they were following to stay relevant, the music was still average at best

But good on them for trying I guess.

Brads still in the band, just not at tonight's show.

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f you read some interviews with the band, they never wanted to make the same album twice. A lot of their albums are very different sounding.

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Chasing what was popular didn’t help them. They aren’t the Beatles, and those two fanbases were not even close to compatible to be accepting of it. What they built with the first two albums was lost, and by the end of it they had a completely different and divided fan base.

On the new lineup, I watched the whole livestream this morning, and I liked it. I think Emily will get more comfortable signing the legacy music and will improve. The new song is good and she’s definitely more comfortable singing it. It’s new LP and not trendy LP, so I’m excited.

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Seeing a lot of backlash online about how Emily is in Scientology and wrote letters to the judge defending Danny Masterson on his rape trial.

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Haven't seen that, just tons of negativity around her performance and they should have renamed the band, that it isn't LP without Chester.

Still listen to the first two albums. Don’t care for much after that. Hard to imagine this band without Chester. Wish they would have just made a new band.