LINKIN PARK UNSHATTERED MOVIE!!!!! (WOOO!!!)

I saw the movie. The LINKIN PARK movie!

At the beginning you have people talking about some great concert somewhere I felt like I've seen before. And then they gave us a video of a Linkin Park performance there. Ohhh it's the Sao Paulo stadion every artist dreams of making it to, where I've last seen BMTH Live Immersive Virtual Experiment in the cinema, L.I.V.E. in São Paulo. Oh right, it's gonna be like Bring Me The Horizon, a concert! Nope, it was a documentary about the band.

If you came there looking for Chester, I mean... This is the wrong movie to choose then. In fact, Gorillaz had more screentime than him in the movie because Mike Shinoda just so happened to have their figures in his kitchen where Linkin Park talked about their music. Chester Bennington was there for a few minutes in the intro, but to only put you into the situation Linkin Park was facing, which is what this movie is about. They lost their greatest member, but the documentary explains what they did next. 

(So cuute)

When Linkin Park was founded two decades ago, they were quite literally starting from Xero. They had the original lineup and they were trying to make it somewhere. By 2017 they were this simply unimaginably massive band, but that's when they lost Chester, and with the main piece of the puzzle gone, they really thought this would end. If they went back together, they would have to start From Zero (new album name foreshadowed). Tribute concerts were held, some featuring very popular artists (here's my favourite example, Oli Sykes from Bring Me The Horizon), but they couldn't keep up just concerting with ultra celebrities, and so in 2017, all musical activities of the band Linkin Park came to a halt.

In 2023 though, the band tried to reunite with what remained of it, which was everybody but Chester. However their guitarist said that he didn't feel like making much music or concerting after a while. He did contribute some creative bits to the band, which he said is the most fun, but he's no longer apart of the linup. The door's always open, though. They managed to find a new one, who Mike Shinoda said he really liked. Watching the part of the documentary where they separately talk about eachother is kind of funny, because one is like "Oh I can't believe I'm in THE Linkin Park with THE Mike Shinoda and I get along with THE greatest idol of my life and work with him" while the other is like "I can't believe we managed to gain somebody so incredibly talented and creative, it's like a blessing, he's one in a million"

And so was the new singer they managed to get, Emily Armstrong. So when the new fellas felt something was off, they could just talk 2gether about it cuz there's 2 of em. When I first heard about her, I didn't think much of her, but I didn't have a particular dislike towards her either. This document however made me see her in a better light. 

I've heard it said before, and I'll say it again, the "We chose Emily Armstrong because she does not sound like Chester, but because she puts in her own unique vocal abilities and emotions, like Chester." to me that felt bland, because there's a lot of people that can do that, so why is Emily the "One in a million"? They did say something about her energy being happier and more upbeat than the rest of the band. But then I figured out by just looking at the footage of recording with her, how at ease the band was with her. Then I figured out that she's a really good fit for Linkin Park. My friend's mom said that when she saw Emily Armstrong debut, she noticed that Mike Shinoda looked very happy, so she knew Emily was the good choice.

We'll that's about it. There was a lot of recordings of the Sao Paulo stadion concert and I've seen a whole row of people headbang more to those snippets than on a cinema projection on the same place by Bring Me The Horizon where it was focused on the concert. That's the Spirit for Linkin Park fans here I guess, even tho BMTH is heavier.

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