Linkin Park's album title Minutes To Midnight was intended as a "tongue in cheek" reference to the music industry. Inadvertently (maybe not?), it's also a rather ironic reference to that of Linkin Park.
Let me explain. They claim that their nu-metal sounds are completely gone from this album. That's quite true. Someo their songs are quite different (other, only slightly) from those found in their previous album. Chester's screaming is not so dominant now. But I find it ironic that their most successful single so far (What I've Done) is probably the only one that sounds like that of their previous songs.
You can find a guitar solo of sorts in the first track ,Wake and also a rap track in Hands Held High. Both, I think, are slightly out of place (and the latter belongs more in The Rising Tied than Minutes to Midnight, really). What I've Done and, perhaps, Bleed It Out are the two tracks I liked. The rest were too broody, slow, melancholic (to the point of annoying) and lacked energy. It got tiring and repetitive.
And they've also dumped their no-profanity policy (which means we now have f**k mentioned in their songs periodically). They are, after all, trying to be different. But I think (and many others, in fact) they fail. Again, irony prevails again here: Perhaps they should have just stuck to formula.
Let me explain. They claim that their nu-metal sounds are completely gone from this album. That's quite true. Someo their songs are quite different (other, only slightly) from those found in their previous album. Chester's screaming is not so dominant now. But I find it ironic that their most successful single so far (What I've Done) is probably the only one that sounds like that of their previous songs.
You can find a guitar solo of sorts in the first track ,Wake and also a rap track in Hands Held High. Both, I think, are slightly out of place (and the latter belongs more in The Rising Tied than Minutes to Midnight, really). What I've Done and, perhaps, Bleed It Out are the two tracks I liked. The rest were too broody, slow, melancholic (to the point of annoying) and lacked energy. It got tiring and repetitive.
And they've also dumped their no-profanity policy (which means we now have f**k mentioned in their songs periodically). They are, after all, trying to be different. But I think (and many others, in fact) they fail. Again, irony prevails again here: Perhaps they should have just stuck to formula.
2 comments:
Er. I thought it was a reference to the Doomsday Clock.
Which in turn refers to the music industry. Think doomsday = music industry =). Of course that is Shinoda's allusion. Not mine.
See here:
http://www.mtv.co.uk/channel/mtvuk/04052007/linkin_park_exclusive
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