This summer marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Linkin Park legend Chester Bennington, and while the tragic loss of such a vital and influential figurehead in the modern rock scene hasn't gotten any easier to comprehend, this does not mean the world cannot look back and just enjoy what he was able to do with his bandmates, while still alive.
This is what exactly Louder Sound did, reminding fans that the group has a 2017 carpool video that showed Chester and the rest just having a good time, which is too cute to watch, and a tad heartbreaking.
Chester and two of his Linkin Park bandmates - vocalist Mike Shinoda and DJ Joe Hahn - appeared on the Apple TV series Carpool Karaoke in 2017 for one of the most emotional final pieces of footage shot of Chester before his passing. Recorded in July of that year, just weeks before Chester's death, it featured the band plus comedian and actor Ken Jeong in a standard Carpool Karaoke setup, with Chester behind the wheel as the group belts out Linkin Park hits.
Highlights include Jeong mucking up the lyrics to "In The End" and Chester bravely ignoring more of the comedian's rubbish to offer an all-out singalong to "Numb," but the show's best moments are undoubtedly when the trio covers classics by other artists.
Shinoda and Jeong's lovably awkward duet of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing." which takes place on a fully-fledged karaoke bus they board later in the show, deserves an honorable mention.
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But it is when all four men belt out Outkast's Hey Ya!, carefree, near the beginning that already showed to fans that they were in for a ride on that particular episode.
Recently, Mike Shinoda, a rapper and composer for Linkin Park, has joined the growing number of musicians who oppose commercial pressure on artists to produce 'interesting' social media content. In a way, he was defending Halsey and her right to have a new song launched, which was being prohibited allegedly by their own label.
Halsey, who collaborated with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails on last year's critically acclaimed If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power album, made headlines over the weekend when she claimed she was barred from releasing new music until she created a "viral" moment on TikTok.
"Basically, I have a song that I love that I want to release ASAP, but my record label won't let me," they wrote over a 29-second TikTok clip. "I've been in this industry for eight years and I've sold over 165 million records and my record company is saying I can't release [the song] unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok."
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