Linkin Park

It has come to my attention that Linkin Park has been getting a lot of bad press from people.
Now this is not a "I'm defending Linkin Park as a fanboy and all you have to say is false if it's bad about them!" post.
This is a post about my own personal views and opinions on Linkin Park, for I have been listening to them ever since Meteora and Hybrid Theory.

Now I don't know how many people out there listened to Linkin Park's first few albums, but they are fantastic as far as Rock goes.
Chester Bennington has one of the best voices I have ever listened to, and his screaming is phenomenal.
Mike Shinoda is one of the greatest rapper/singer types out there (...and is he chinese? Japanese? What the crap is he?)
Everyone in the band has this amazing talent to them ever since the first album, and who honestly doesn't know all of the lyrics to "In The End", that was a strong radio song, but hey, still great to this day.
So with Meteora, they busted that one out, and a lot more people bought those songs, including myself.
Great songs on the album as well as Hybrid Theory, and again, as far as Rock goes, they are fantastic.

However, the thing is, once Minutes to Midnight came out, people were horribly disgusted with what they produced.
I liked Minutes to Midnight, no matter how "Emo" people called it.
Yes it had some depressing-like songs, but all in all, it was great.
The way the music was coordinated and the lyrics were beautiful in my opinion.

Jump when they tell you that they wanna see Jumpin'

Fuck that I wanna see some fist pumpin'

Risk somethin, take back whats yours

Say somethin that you know they might attack you for. 

Thats just me though, love the lyrics.
So people see this album as "Linkin Parks downfall" just because it's a little bit less rock than their last ablum?
I may be exaggerating with the downfall part, but again, just opinions.

Fast forward a bit now to this year, in comes  A Thousand Suns, newest album, and great sound.
However, yet again, people are saying that this album is "shit" compared to other albums.
Why compare the seperate albums? I mean yeah, it's different then the last albums...but it is supposed to be.

I guess you can't ever win when your in a band producing albums.
You'll have one "amazing first platinum album" and then maybe a second one.
But here is the real kicker, on your next albums, people could say things like, "Oh this doesn't sound anything like their first album."
So you go back to the same sound as your first album and people start saying, "They are so not being original, this is just the same crap from the first album!"
So then you try one final attempt, change your sound again, and then the people start with yelling, "SELLOUTS!"
There is pretty much the only solution, and either way you lose, you will never have anything as good as the first albums because people don't like hearing new things or old things, they pretty much wont be satisfied at all with your work, no matter how much heart you put into it.
God damn internet jading everyone.

Well thats it for right now, so until then, listen, love, and FOR SCIENCE!!