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Your story on the band Linkin Park says its songs are about "alienation, frustration and loneliness" [MUSIC, Jan. 28]. I don't think a band can just go around singing about happy things. That is unrealistic. Teens can't relate to that, and neither can the artists. I think Linkin Park communicates its message very well. The band lets its fans know they are not alone in having been through tough stuff. Just because some people don't get the message or take it wrong doesn't mean that the message is not there. JODY POETTKER Flat Rock...
...Issue ? Topics include divorce, Andrea Yates, the 1980s and Linkin Park...
...Issue - Topics include divorce, Andrea Yates, the 1980s and Linkin Park...
...everyone is able to distill the positive message. Last March Charles Andrew Williams, 15, walked into his Santee, Calif., high school and killed two fellow students. That morning he wrote out the lyrics from Linkin Park's song In the End--"I tried so hard and got so far/ but in the end, it doesn't even matter"--pinned the note to the speakers in his room and signed it to explain his feelings of despair to his father. None of the group members like talking about Santee, in part because, really, what can they say other than that...
...good news is that Linkin Park likes to work. The group spent 325 days on tour in 2001, and it's already planning to release a remix album this spring and record new material as soon as the band's members can tear themselves away from the road. They were also an exceedingly young band when they wrote Hybrid Theory. They wrote what they knew. Now their lives are much more interesting. "Our next record could sound like anything," says Bennington. With a little more discipline, it could even sound like what they intend...