![]() Mike Shinoda- Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard, Samples The album is the top-selling debut album by a band in the 21st century, going Diamond (or 10 times platinum). Their breakout LP, Hybrid Theory, skyrocketed off the charts, winning the hearts of preteen rockers nationwide. The band blurred the lines of rap and rock, taking guitars and mixing them with a DJ and electronic drum beats. Linkin Park decided to come just at the perfect time. Grunge, rap, and boy band pop dominated the airwaves of the 90s and the time had come for something new. While mathematically, the year 2000 was not the new millennium, many considered it to be anyway. ![]() Due to the band’s incredible “originality”, the mainstream greets them with unprecedented success and acclaim. Whether the band is truly that original or not depends, but for the most part there were other bands that never made the mainstream that produced the same exact ideas, if not better, than said groundbreaking band. Every once in a while, that band comes along that changes all perceptions of a genre to the mainstream. ![]()
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