Linkin Park Band • Page 153

yeah Zane already has heard it from the interview this morning

 

It's also the first song on the album, so I think it's a nice heavy and familiar song right out of the gate to get the album going.

 

Yeah, and I suspect it starts with Mike to ease people into the new vocals.

 

She honestly kills her screaming chorus, her singing voice is good but I'm not as much into that as an LP song. If Mike did all the clean singing and she just did the screams this album may not even lack for me.

 

The Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala & His Wife Call Out Linkin Park Over Emily Armstrong's Ties To Scientology & Convicted Rapist Danny Masterson - Theprp.com

And here we go.

 

I heard the new song on the radio, it's okay. Really hope they clear up the controversy

 

Pretty sick tbh. Good choice guys

 

Now in Rolling Stone. They can't possibly ignore this now.

Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong Criticized: Danny Masterson, Scientology

 

Yep, not the best start. They will have to address it now.

 

feeling sick to my stomach right about now can't lie

 

Hmm....not the announcement I think people were looking for at this moment.

 

Damn.

 

Just let the girl sing.

 

She is quite literally, the singer.

 

From a music standpoint, it's impossible to hear Emily sing the old songs and not have them sound like covers. There just isn't a way to separate the volume of material they've released from the frontman who wrote and sang them. She could go out and sing them note for note perfect and it's not going to change that the vast majority of their live show is going to be at best karaoke.

From a "maybe she specifically was a bad choice", Linkin Park is a band that has long stood for mental health and lost their most recognizable member to suicide and now his songs are being sung by someone who was by all accounts raised in a belief system that thinks psychiatry is a scam and mental illness doesn't exist.

 

yep.

 

She does that already, how dare people want to hold them accountable for their actions

 

Yeah, my biggest beef with the tools on Reddit that are like "leave her alone" is they want to make it about not wanting Chester replaced when it's not wanting Chester replaced with someone whose belief system is the complete antithesis of what he represented.

 

I think the most batshit narrative I saw on Reddit is that the lyrics of the new song are Emily subliminally denouncing Scientology.

The mental gymnastics people do to accept shitty situations is wild.

 

I dunno about subliminal, but again, I actually don't think it's a huge stretch to interpret the lyrics to be denouncing her time in the cult. I mean, what doesn't make sense about that as a possibility?

 

Your blades are sharpened with precision
Flashing your favorite point of view
I know you're waiting in the distance
Just like you always do
Just like you always do

Already pulling me in
Already under my skin
And I know exactly how this ends, I

Let you cut me open
Just to watch me bleed
Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be
Don't know why I'm hoping
For what I won't receive
Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine
The emptiness machine

Going around like a revolver
It's been decided how we lose
'Cause there's a fire under the altar
I keep on lying to
I keep on lying to

Already pulling me in
Already under my skin
And I know exactly how this ends, I

Let you cut me open
Just to watch me bleed
Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be
Don't know why I'm hoping
For what I won't receive
Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine

I only wanted to be part of something
I only wanted to be part of, part of
I only wanted to be part of something
I only wanted to be part of, part of
I only wanted to be part of something
I only wanted to be part

I let you cut me open
Just to watch me bleed
Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be
Don't know why I'm hoping
So fucking naive
Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine
The emptiness machine
(I only wanted to be part of something)
The emptiness machine
(I only wanted to be part of)
The emptiness machine

 

Statement from Emily

 

Did the church of Scientology write that for her? Lol

 

lol