User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/Well Hello./@comment-4833053-20130704010738/@comment-1824274-20130726164405

Yeah, I agree. When Linkin Park came out, their audience was pretty much consisting of angry teens who were in the "I hate my parents!" and "Life sucks!" phase, but now that all those teens are in their 20's, I'm guessing that Linkin Park is trying to appeal to their old audience by showing them that they grew up too. Too bad that it's not working so great.

It's sorta like the grunge phenomenon in the 90's. Bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains appealed to an entire generation of angry, depressed teens through their angsty, depressing, and thoughtful lyrics, and flannel shirts lol. Next thing ya know, every teen turned grunge and it took over the fucking world, then it was like that for a few years. Then Kurt shot himself and Soundgarden broke up, so that was the end of that. That's like Linkin Park, how they appealed to a whole generation of teens but when they tried to grow up, everyone hated them in the process for it. It was like they were dead to all those disaffected teens, just like how grunge died, except grunge was pretty much always great and left a bigger impact on the world at the time, whereas Linkin Park's only affected teens.

That explanation was horrid, but that's the only comparison I can think of haha.