Andrew Elmore Works For You! 💽

@andrewelmore

game dev: designer/composer

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visual (+ui/ux) designer
& composer of video games
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Andrew Elmore Works For You! 💽@andrewelmore8/22/2022, 10:36 AM

I don't mean to be rude, but what's with the cultural rehabilitation of Linkin Park

It seems crass and callous to pin it on the recent tragedy, so I don't want to jump to that conclusion, but I don't know what else to point to?

Mike Shinoda pre-NFTs was all right? His score for THE RAID was pretty sick. But it's hard to separate him from the endless legions of 30-40yo white guys in Fort Minor beanies trying to rap just like him.

Maybe it's a generational thing? I'm knocking on the door of 30, but my memory of the 2000s was a world where that band was unilaterally derided as weapons-grade secondhand embarrassment.

I'm sorry, this is the least important thing in the world but it's been eating up so many of my brain's precious few CPU cycles and it's not like I can bring this up on the bird website.

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mattcolewilson 🎃@mattcolewilson8/22/2022, 1:17 PM

I'm a little older than you, so our experiences may differ. But back in the day (especially during the first album), it seemed like everyone loved Linkin Park. We didn't collectively start turning our noses up until the wave of numetal crashed. But even then, it seemed that LP still had more respect than many of their contemporaries.

I haven't seen the latest resurgence specifically, but I think all of that stuff has been getting reappraised over the last few years, as the nostalgia cycle churns. What with your Oliver Trees and other newer acts evoking the vibes of the 2000s. But maybe there's more to it, I dunno!

I'm not a huge Linkin Park fan, but I still think that first album rocks. lol

Andrew Elmore Works For You! 💽@andrewelmore8/23/2022, 9:34 AM

Yeah, I mean it definitely tracks with the 00s nostalgia peaking, the post-ironic-meme-ification of Adult Swim, and everyone collectively realizing that the only way there is left to be truly happy in what remains of this burning earth is to get high and watch Aqua Teen.

A Low Poly Robot @LowPolyRobot8/22/2022, 8:15 PM

I'm in that boat of 'I loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora always' but when I hit middle school everyone seemed to collectively decide they were always bad which, caught me off guard. Same with MCR by the time I hit high school, which I also always liked. The resurgence in talking about both bands for me is just being more sincere about what I like instead of keeping it hidden.

Andrew Elmore Works For You! 💽@andrewelmore8/23/2022, 9:32 AM

I never even heard MCR until I was already engaged to my now-wife who was always a massive fan of theirs. I was aware of them obviously, but it just never drifted into my apparently-weirdly-specific goth circles. We were on a long road trip in like 2013 and she popped in their first CD and I was like, "Oh! This is just Slayer filtered through the lens of melodramatic burnout theater kids that make surprisingly good comic books and zines in their spare time while the education system fails them completely. I knew kids like that. Oh hey they're doing the dual-guitars counterpoint thing from Kill 'Em All. Sure, yeah, I can get behind this." In short, it might not be the kind of thing that I sought out myself, but I'm generally in favor. Good stuff, imo.