Linkin Park recently released their new album “One More Light” and a lot of fans are put off by the overly poppy sound. Quite a few people have called the band “sell outs” and Chester Bennington doesn’t appreciate it.
Chester recently said that fans need to “move the f*** on” from Hybrid Theory, and during a recent interview with Kerrang he expressed more anger toward fans who accuse the band of selling out.
“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 f—ing meet me outside and I will punch you in your f—ing mouth because that is the wrong f—king answer.
“Because guess what, calling us a sell out for that purpose is… selling out on your f—king excuse as to why you don’t like it. You’re a f—king pussy. For any band to take musical risks because you like what you’re doing in spite of what you know some people will say they don’t like, it doesn’t matter if they like it or not – what matters is that you took the chance to do something that you felt was important to you and that’s what being an artist is all about.”
“When we did Minutes To Midnight (their third studio album, which saw them abandon nu-metal), this was a conversation we literally had, ‘this could end our career’. We all had that real honest conversation like ‘look I know we’re doing this because this is what we love and we really really… this is important to us. This could honestly be like the worst decision we’ve ever made professionally. Creatively probably the best thing, professionally it might be the worst.’ We were like ‘we’re good with that. We can live with that.’
