And what Lil Peep rapped and sang about, in almost every song, was drugs or suicide. His lyrics sometimes shouted out Cobain , who killed himself at 27 in , and in one music video he glowered in front of a portrait of Amy Winehouse , who died at 27 in Dystopian though the thought is, Lil Peep exemplified the arrival of self-annihilation as a trending topic for a new generation of performers who borrow from nu metal, grunge, emo, and punk. Yet dark emotion is not all that distinguishes this scene.
Once again in pop-music history, when hard anger meets soft vulnerability, the commingling almost always comes with a dose of beauty and a jolt of sonic possibility. It also, once again, comes with troubling and inexplicable real-life associations. Meanwhile, the morbid preoccupations of Lil Peep and his peers track all too closely with urgent social realities like the prescription-drug epidemic and the rising rate of suicide among young people.
In the face of these dark facts, who can avoid pondering some sort of grim transference of inner torment across generations?
But it is safer to simply recognize that music responds to the real world in any era because music is created by real people. At least their music, finding new boundaries to cross and break, escapes that fate. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest.
All this usage of "we" seems to imply you think you're speaking on behalf of a lot of people within this fanbase. You are not. Hybrid , Alexrednex , brady and 11 others like this. Joined: May 22, Messages: 5, Likes Received: 1, Sasuke , May 19, I hate them harsh but this is my opinion. Joined: Feb 25, Messages: 2, Likes Received: Blackee Dammet , May 19, Speaking of energy and creativity, a user-submitted review of the album makes an interesting point about this'.
Joined: Jan 25, Messages: 1, Likes Received: Deliveranze , May 19, Corniest thread of Modern Guitar God and Sasuke like this. Joined: Jul 19, Messages: Likes Received: Avo , May 19, Read the first line and skipped the rest. Based on the following posts, it appears as though I made the right decision. Joined: Jun 3, Messages: Likes Received: Chris loves LP , May 19, Joined: Sep 26, Messages: Likes Received: Ben , May 19, If they were selling out, I highly doubt they would include deeply personal and loving lyrics about their families and friends.
I didn't mean a word of it!!! Why question their integrity? So many people are right now. Bradley , brady , Evan and 2 others like this. Joined: Jun 26, Messages: 2, Likes Received: Brandon , May 19, Joined: Jul 13, Messages: 41, Likes Received: 2, Derek , May 20, Nah, ignorance is claiming everyone on LPA thinks the same way.
Because that's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays: labeling LPA when they honestly don't know shit about this website.
I am not a 'Linkin Park loyalist' or apologist. Many never knew about the awful abuse Chester endured as a child or his own fight for sobriety as an adult as those songs permeated airwaves and MTV in the early s.
Still, the band pushed forward relentlessly. As they settled in to their cozy corporate-rock environs with arenas full of fans around the world, Linkin Park became, to some, the antithesis of cool. Were Linkin Park Ever Good? By Hilary Saunders July 24, pm. From their explosive entry into — and reinvention of — the nu-metal scene via mainstream-straddling crossover success, to their unabashed willingness to experiment and reinvent themselves, they were both the gateway act that brought so many bands and fans into the current scene and trailblazers in bulldozing the boundaries of what rock could be.
They missed not only the burning spirit within these songs, but the sheer brilliance of that machine-tooled consistency and accessibility, too. Although the tragic passing of Chester Bennington has — perhaps permanently — stemmed their output, the years since have allowed us to revisit that existing legacy and re consider the deeper meaning and value of these songs with greater perspective.
In , it felt like Linkin Park had entered something of a holding pattern. Living Things felt like a patent effort to recapture the slick bombast of their trademark sound without altogether jettisoning the electronic experimentation they had been riding the years previously. There are standout tracks here — the bombastically angsty Lost In The Echo, shimmering alt. Listening back, you get the sense that these songs were written with a deliberately low-key approach.
After the all-conquering success of their first two releases, Minutes To Midnight felt like Linkin Park hitting some sort of cruise control.
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