I was influenced by everyone from Jay-Z to Timbaland - Timbo a lot. It starts off with this really bouncy hip-hop beat. I knew that the other ones were better singles for all the reasons that they worked, but I always felt like вЂњPapercutвЂќ was so much of the band in one song. If there was going to be a calling card, thatвЂ™s it. IвЂ™ve always said that вЂњPapercutвЂќ was the track that defined Hybrid Theory for me. Hybrid Theory song you wish was a bigger hit They got to get out all these negative and difficult thoughts and emotions. The songs were like, If you feel this way, come together. So people would come to the shows because they connected with these negative emotions, and we gave them something positive to rally around. But in the big picture, thatвЂ™s not who I am. The songs were an invitation to the show, whether you listened to вЂњOne Step CloserвЂќ and said вЂњThatвЂ™s so dope - itвЂ™s so angry,вЂќ or if you listened to вЂњIn the EndвЂќ and there was something about that pessimism and that negativity that you related to, you could come to our show. So to write those words and then have that be the biggest song off the album, it forced me to have a different perspective on what that song is for, and what the meaning of that song in the world is.Д«asically, the songs were like an outreach. Actually, my friends often accuse me of finding the silver lining in things too often. If you listen to the lyrics, itвЂ™s so pessimistic, and IвЂ™m not really that pessimistic. The way the chorus came to me was in almost unabashed pessimism. Hybrid Theory track whose meaning has changed the most over the years I look at them and I feel like IвЂ™m looking at two roommates out of college. They had just come out of UCLA, having lived with one another for I donвЂ™t know how many years. Dave and Brad, in particular, you could tell they were college roommates. ThereвЂ™s a new DVD named Projekt Revolution 2002, and itвЂ™s all material that we shot at the time and never released - we were really young. Theoretically, I know we were about 20, 21 years old. In fact, critic Steven Hyden, in his great new book on Kid A, RadioheadвЂ™s seminal album that came out the same month as Hybrid Theory, makes the case that while Radiohead became obsessed with вЂњevolvingвЂќ rock music and bringing it to the future, Linkin Park were the future.Д«elow, Shinoda goes over all the highs and lows of 20 years of Linkin Park.Д«iggest revelation from revisiting Hybrid Theory (Any legacy rock band would kill to have a YouTube video with billions of views - Linkin Park has two.) And in a post-emo rap world, Hybrid Theory sounds even more ahead of its time. The Hybrid Theory boxed set, out this month, includes the bandвЂ™s original 2000 debut LP with the 2002 Reanimation remix album, the 1999 Hybrid Theory EP (from when the band still went by Hybrid Theory), and loads of B-sides, rarities, and demos, including the elusive вЂњ She CouldnвЂ™tвЂќ and вЂњPictureboard.вЂќ Even if you werenвЂ™t a fan then (or never became one), itвЂ™s fascinating to relisten to Hybrid Theory and realize that alternative and rock radio still lives and dies by the template perfected by Linkin Park. Shinoda remembers much of the process well, revisiting the work 20 years later. Shinoda is also one of Linkin ParkвЂ™s main songwriters much of the Grammy-winning Hybrid Theory was born from him and his collaboration with his longtime bandmates, including late vocalist Chester Bennington. Initially viewed as one of the many вЂњthis too shall passвЂќ nu-metal releases of its era, Hybrid Theory, released on October 24, 2000, became the best-selling album of 2001 in the U.S., achieved rare diamond status by 2005 (10 million albums sold), and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide since. вЂњI know that there are younger fans who are just getting into the album now,вЂќ f ounding Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda nonchalantly says of one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.

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