“But if you’re gonna be the person who says like ‘they made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money’ you can fucking meet me outside and I will punch you in your fucking mouth because that is the wrong fucking answer.
“Either you like the song or you don’t and if you don’t like the song because you hear it and on a kneejerk reaction it’s like ‘oh it doesn’t have metal in it so I don’t like it’, that’s fine, like whatever. But that hasn’t stopped Bennington from stooping to social media’s level: last week, he advised fans who think Linkin Park have sold out to “stab yourself in the face.” This week, in an interview with Kerrang!, Bennington helpfully offered to inflict pain on fans who won’t do it themselves: First week sales for the album aren’t in yet, so it remains to be seen if the shift in sound impacts the band’s sales, or if the detractors are just a very loud minority. In case your life has sufficient meaning and you weren’t already aware, some fans are pissed that the record sounds more like light pop than it does the (relatively) aggressive nu-metal for which the band is known. One of those people is Chester Bennington, who’s been vocally retaliating against the backlash received on Linkin Park’s new album, One More Light. In the oh-so-wise words of Sensei Misha Mansoor, “You can’t fight the Internet.” Of course, that will never stop some people from trying, even when it’s against their best interests.
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