Linkin Park - From Zero (November 15th, 2024) • Page 29

Not LP but Chester’s other project. He wrote this song for his marriage with Talinda. I read somewhere that she had asked him to write a song they could dance to

 

Don't think I've heard this, completely forgot he had another project that isn't Grey Daze

 

Dead by Sunrise had so much unrealized potential. Bringing in Howard Benson to "polish up" the album was a huge mistake IMO. The demo versions of those songs that leaked a couple years back rip

 

I got the Dead By Sunrise vinyl (with bonus tracks including Morning After!) for record store day and I’m still emo about it

 

The 2nd Brazil show sold out instantly. They sold just under 97k tickets between both shows

 

That's crazy!! Selling out 2 nights in Brazil and one night in France, I wonder how Texas is selling at the moment?

 

Under 50% sold

 

Yikes! I wonder what made them pick a stadium in Dallas while picking arenas in NYC and LA. Seems like the reverse would've worked better.

 

Stadium availability/Time of year and weather prolly had something to do with it.

the Mets where home the day of the nyc show. And citi field is the only baseball stadium in nyc that holds concerts on a regular basis. Don’t think the Yankees hold much of anything concert wise

playing outside at a baseball stadium in nyc in November is prolly a bit too cold

 

Could also be trying to gauge interest for stadiums outside their MAJOR markets

 

I feel like Dallas is a major market for them tho.


I do think Chicago, Boston and nyc will be baseball stadiums next year

 

Saw Linkin Park at a KROQ fest in like 2009? And mid set Chester brought out dead by sunrise to play a few songs and it was such a buzzkill lol

 

I would consider LA, NY, and Chicago their truly major markets in the US. Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa etc. are markets that they're big in, but not necessarily "for sure sell out a stadium" big IMO

 

That even sounds weird, that's like bringing a side chick to a family party.

 

I mean, bands tour with member side projects all the time without an issue, if they're mature, functioning adults.

 

It was 3 songs for one of two encores. Very reasonable way of handling it considering the album was coming out in the middle of LP promoting New Divide/working on ATS and DBS didn't have much of an opportunity to properly tour

 

if this is through ticketmaster/livenation, they (not the band) are tryin to reap the sweet sweet dollars.

 

Looks like we are getting one more single next week. Over each other.

 

Over each other is dropping on the 24th

 

not sure who still cares about this, but I’ve seen some recent stuff that suggests that Emily is no longer an active member of Scientology

her latest photoshoot posted to Instagram was taken by Brian Bowen Smith, who shot the cover of Leah Remini’s book Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. Brian’s partner, Shea, also posted a photo of her son and Emily this month with the caption “family time.” Emily and Mike also alluded to Shea being a mother figure to Emily/the relationship with her own mother might be complicated in their podcast this week

That is a relationship the “church” would not approve of, as Leah Remini is referred to as a “suppressive person”

I’ve also seen that Emily has only completed one Scientology course - and that was all the way back in 2007

a prominent YouTuber and ex Scientologist (Aaron Smith-Levin) also recently said that her involvement with the “church” was light, if at all. He also said that she could be a victim of growing up within Scientology, which adds up with her parents being high profile members and her childhood on the ranch (children of sea org members are separated from their families and doing child labor while they’re there)

I don’t know if she’s left quietly or isn’t an active member anymore, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she did leave after the Masterson trial - let’s not forget that Scientologists aren’t allowed access to anything that shows criticism of the cult, and she could’ve found a lot while that trial was going on. She could have been questioning/rebelling from much earlier as a queer woman who’s written about mental illness - both things that Scientology discriminates against

People who leave Scientology quietly aren’t targeted in the same way “suppressive people” who speak up about their experiences are. I understand that we’d all love a statement if she has left, but that would put her and everyone around her in danger, and cut off any relationship she still has with anyone in the “church”. That can be too much to sacrifice for many

https://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/e/emily-armstrong.html

 

It's certainly compelling. It just sucks that we can't have a clear, full-throated answer about this.

 

Honestly unless more negative stuff comes out, that’s probably enough for me to feel comfortable about listening to this. I’m not going out and buying merch, records, or probably even seeing them live, so that makes it easier, but I’m definitely going to give the album a fair shake.

 

maybe it's true, and if so, i'm glad she got out, but unless she's done it privately (and if we're to believe what Cedric and Chrissie have said), i'm curious if she's taken any steps/accountability to apologize to the victims of Masterson she allegedly helped harass. and iirc, wasn't she also seen still hanging out with Bijou Phillips shortly after the allegations dropped? is she still a Scientologist?

i don't wanna write-off the chance that she got out because some of this evidence is interesting for sure (assuming the website on course-taking statistics is accurate), but i just don't know if we have enough concrete information to suggest that she did.

i'm still planning to listen to the album, but my interest in this version of the band (which has all the potential to be exciting) has been very minimal after the initial news broke re: her and Masterson.