Excellent review.

Album Rating: 1.7

there's no way the Train album is any better than this

Album Rating: 2.0

Train is just a bit more painful than this

Album Rating: 3.0

This was a great review, but I think the album is pretty solid. Still Linkin Park's weakest album imo, but one of them has to be.

Album Rating: 1.0

Oh god Heavy's lyrics are embarrassing

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

"but label manipulation will always remain a theory"



I can't think of a single music or marketing exec who would ever suggesting doing what they ended up doing. If anything I can envision a dozen or so people trying to casually steer them away from such an attempt.

Album Rating: 1.0

Chesters verse on Sorry for Now is soooo cringyyy

Album Rating: 2.0

"One More Light is an album too safe and vanilla to be considered offensive, yet simultaneously too limp and effortless to be forgivable."

Love this line, true af

Album Rating: 1.0

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Album Rating: 2.0

warner definitely held their hand in this album, doubt Shinoda really had the idea to bring Kiiara on board

Album Rating: 3.0

I disagree with your rating, but I appreciate that you seemed to be trying to be fair minded and didn't give the album a rock bottom "1" like the other reviews have done so far. It's not my favorite album by Linkin Park, but I like it more than much of their other recent material. Some of the songs have issues, but I like the general direction that they've gone in and am enjoying Sorry for Now, Invisible, Heavy, and Nobody Can Save Me.

Album Rating: 1.7

"I can't think of a single music or marketing exec who would ever suggesting doing what they ended up doing"

Album Rating: 1.5

"warner definitely held their hand in this album, doubt Shinoda really had the idea to bring Kiiara on board"



Actually, in one of the several videos leading up to Heavy, it was Joe Hahn who suggested to bring in a female singer although obviously it wouldn't be revealed till later that the singer the band chose was Kiiara

Album Rating: 1.7

Joe Hahn was probably told to do it by the label

Album Rating: 2.0

very very good view, hard pos. honestly can't tell to what extent this was label manipulation or their honest to god genuine attempt to make a pop record. obviously the label would be more than pleased with the direction, and it certainly makes sense given the sales of THP that there could be some coercion here, but idk LP have always seemed to do whatever they wanted, no matter how bad, because they wanted to

Album Rating: 3.7

Sup

Typical

Album Rating: 3.7

I'd honestly prefer more of this from LP than them trying in vein to recreate Hybrid Theory for the nth time. It's shallow and not very technical, but I enjoyed just about every song here on a superficial, surface level. It's a good pop record.

Album Rating: 3.7

I actually agree with you more than you'd probably expect given the rating disparity. I would say there's never been anything indie about LP so I'd call it plain old pop - by which standards this still surpasses a lot of what is out there. I concur it is not very creative, and that they've crafted much better standalone pop songs and ballads in the past (most of the ones you mentioned, plus 'Valentine's Day'), too. I think the avicii remixes stuff is taking it a bit too far though; to me this is just an album entirely consisting of the aforementioned poppier tracks - each track is kind of on par with 'Leave Out All The Rest.' It's not as inspired or as technically good, but that doesn't mean it's inherently the worst thing they've ever done. I'd take another record like this before I'd ever hear 'Victimized' or a similarly fake-tough/desperate throwback track like that ever again.

Album Rating: 2.0

It really isn't. Also, I really don't see how you can give that rating to this album, but 2 the last Coldplay, which is the exact same case of a once decent rock band with a massive pop appeal gone total mainstream pop (and it pains me to say it, but it was actually slightly better...).