yea i agree with alot of what you said.....i was 16 when i started listening to them.... im like 20yrsold now, moved out of home........so i can see through what they do.......
your right, it is a business.... and thats the problem........ believe it or not REanimation is what linkin park ORIGNALLY sounded like, hybrid theory isnt... i actually think now that reanimation is their best album......
just listen to the guitars on meteora..... its the same 3chord riffs, there songs are so identical, somewhere i belong-in the end......
....i believe that CC was selling out based on the fact it was organised by MTV for starters... in the fact there just using up another album to get out of their 10 album contract........ i mean jayz is one of the best rappers in hiphop, between two groups they came out with 6song EP that isnt even close to what it should have been... milking the dedicated fans (my opinion).... and there fighting with warner for more money?? ...if any band sold as much as they did they would be jumping for joy....
right now you can even tell linkin park as a band DONT like where there going..... i mean look at mike... his parts of the songs (crawling demo) and lyrics were cut out and dumbed down so much....... chesters least favorite song is OSC, i actaully think he hates SCREAMING.... coz in his previous band grey daze he did none of that.......
look in the meteora booklet.... dont stay ORIGNALLY had a reggae vibe.... and there record company changed it into OSC part 2...... i rekon they had to re-write most of the songs on meteora.....
the problem is that hybrid theory looses part of its "greatness" if they cloned it with meteora (besides bth & nobody's listening) and in turn meteora looses its status as a good record if its so similar to HT...... people cannt say, "oh linkin park, there first album is great and so is there second" beocz there so similar they lose and idenitiy..... reanimation and CC and the only albums with identity.... know wat i mean?
im not tryin to hate on em.... it just somthing i realised as i grew older....