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If you like being punched in the mouth, just start saying that Linkin Park have sold out
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 May 2017
Linkin Park are not a band who it’s ever been very easy to call ‘credible’. But of those who have tried in the past, a sizable portion have officially given up because of the band’s new album, the more pop ‘One More Light’. But singer Chester Bennington doesn’t want any talk of ‘selling out’. And he will pop you in the mouth if you say it.
“Either you like the song or you don’t. And if you don’t like the song because you hear it and – on a kneejerk reaction – it’s like ‘oh it doesn’t have metal in it, so I don’t like it’, that’s fine, like whatever”, says Bennington in an interview with Kerrang Radio. “But if you’re gonna be the person who says, like, ‘they made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money’, you can fucking meet me outside and I will punch you in your fucking mouth because that is the wrong fucking answer”.
Why is that the wrong fucking answer, Chester? “Because guess what, calling us a ‘sell out’ for that purpose is… selling out on your fucking excuse as to why you don’t like it. You’re a fucking pussy”.
Well that’s all clear then. Still, this issue did occur to the band even as they started to pull together the songs that ultimately made up the new album, realising that they were “going down a route that a lot of our hardcore rock fans are going to be, like, put off by it maybe”.
“My response was ‘cool, fuck them, we don’t want them as fans anyways’. By now, if people don’t know that we can throw a curveball, then fuck them! If you’re a guy who only likes ‘War’ off ‘The Hunting Party’ – that’s your favourite Linkin Park track and that’s what you want, you’ve got that one song. It’s the only song that we’ve ever written like it, that’s it. I don’t know if we’ll ever write another one … It’s like, sorry dude, if you’re going to hate on us for it, then fuck you, I don’t care”.
Basically, Chester Bennington doesn’t care what you think about his new album, but he will punch you if you do voice your opinion on it. Stop having opinions on Linkin Park. He’s right, it really isn’t worth it.
