Word: shinoda
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...Food & Liquor” is marred by some notable flaws. There’s “The Instrumental,” which a) is not, b) features breathy white-dude singing over the hook, and c) is inexplicably produced by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. Add that to the bloated shout-outro and you’ve got 15 full minutes of lame. Plus, Fiasco’s got some growing to do. His rhythms are varied but bland; his rhymes cling to the beat’s skirts, rarely venturing into dangerous territory. Most worryingly...
...winter-woods imagery might even remind you of sledding at night in the woods in Duluth, Minnesota that time during spring break of my senior year of high school. Or of some lame memory of your own. —Henry M. CowlesBelieveFort MinorLinkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would love for you to know that he is tremendously clever. Clever enough, according to his website, to give his new group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured...
...film to close the series and the last film that Ozu made before his death in 1987, An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...
...Down.” Featuring the inexplicably popular Linkin Park, the track was perhaps meant as an inroad to broader audiences. Instead, it undermines the X-ecutioners’ roots by diluting the urban elements with a quintessentially suburban and pathetic attempt at being edgy. Not only does Mike Shinoda sound like he’s reading lyrics from a scrap of paper, but the musically rigid “nu-metal” shoves the DJs to the side, as if they were guests on their own album...
...despair to his father. None of the group members like talking about Santee, in part because, really, what can they say other than that the incident makes them sad? "Yes that kid connected with the lyrics, but so did a million other people, totally different kinds of people," says Shinoda, who feels that Linkin Park was vilified by a mainstream press that never got acquainted with the band's broader philosophy. The problem is that Linkin Park is a band, not a cosmology, and if the group wants to be genuinely uplifting, its members can't just declare themselves positive...