I didn't like Linkin Park after The Hybrid Theory. The Reanimation album was good too, but that was a remix sort of thing. If I'm not mistaken, Hybrid is still considered as their defining album because of its success as well as its content. I think that's what got people into their music 15+ years ago.
Aside from that, I don't know much about LP because I didn't keep up with them but it's sad, from what you said, that he was reaching out in his own way and people romanticized it by saying it made his music better by influencing it. I only know about mental health only from school and even then I know just the tip of the iceberg but the help is there but people don't seek it. It seems every person has a unique path to get to it and all you can do "advertise" it to let them know it's there. Never dealt with it, certainly not at the level of attempting it, and the people I know of that did it were not close to me at all. So it's all "theory" to me instead of experience.
Aside from that, I don't know much about LP because I didn't keep up with them but it's sad, from what you said, that he was reaching out in his own way and people romanticized it by saying it made his music better by influencing it. I only know about mental health only from school and even then I know just the tip of the iceberg but the help is there but people don't seek it. It seems every person has a unique path to get to it and all you can do "advertise" it to let them know it's there. Never dealt with it, certainly not at the level of attempting it, and the people I know of that did it were not close to me at all. So it's all "theory" to me instead of experience.
