by FirestormXIII » Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:58 pm
Arghh, I promised myself I wouldn't post in this thread, but I have to get something off my chest.
I've heard 'Somewhere I Belong' a couple of times on the radio in the past few days and I can honestly say that if the rest of the album isn't substantially better than that song, then Linkin Park will have fallen in the crapper. The first 20 seconds or so of the song isn't bad, in fact it sounds better than most of the stuff from their first album, but after that little buildup and the hope that perhaps LP actually got better...the rest of the song let's you down. Hard.
It sounds more cookie cutter and wooden than anything from their first album, and that's saying a lot, especially to people that don't like LP. I can honestly say for the first time that I have heard a song that sounded like it had no feeling behind it whatsoever.
As a person that doesn't hate Linkin Park's guts, and would actually like to see them develop into a good band, I can really only hope that the rest of their new album will be better than this. The only thing that would be sadder than watching LP fall prey to 'Sophmore Suicide' rather than a Sophmore Slump would be watching people buy the album and tout it as greater than the first (and worse, greater than any other music/band out there).
Just my thoughts.
Everyone is not the same as you.
Get over it.
And lighten up.