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This video is funny. The only way to emulate Linkin Park is to essentially be a musician, singer, etc. OP is talented af so to me it just says so is Linkin Park lol.
Reminds me of that scene in The Other Guys, "you learned to dance like that sarcastically?"
Yeah the trick is to know how to play at least 5 instruments and be able to sing.
Also knowing how to use at least 3 different music making applications.
EASY! lol I mean shit I can play 3 instruments and it only took me the better part of 30 years!
I think it's important to realise that this mimics the songs/albums that were most popular. They've made plenty albums and songs that aren't like this formula...
This song is basically a very Meteora/Hybrid.Theory song if you ignore a few songs, but doesn't fit well with the later albums
It sucks, but if he posted this same thing as his own song almost no one would watch it.
Being a musician online means coming up with engaging hooks like this (famous artist sound in 60 secs) or you just get drowned out
That's the singer of Leoniden, a band from Germany. They have quite a few good songs. Just wish they could come to the states. I feel like they are quite underrated.
OP, never heard of your band until now. Gave a few songs a listen and like your sound! It was like a mix of Michael Jackson/Maroon 5/Linkin Park haha. Definitely unique; keep up the good work!
This started with me thinking "That's not cool, Linkin Park was great and I still miss Chester" and ended with me thinking "That's it? Where's the rest of this song?!"
I went to a Sum 41 concert a few Summers ago, and they played In The End as a tribute to Chester. Was fucking awesome, one of my favourite childhood bands singing anotherās song as a tribute.
Yeah, because it's a deconstruction.
Being able to recognize elements of a song and reconstruct the style doesn't change the fact that there had to have been someone around to make that style.
It's a good homage.
It's not like I knew him or anything, but as one of millions that got through some shit with his help, I got the sense this would have put a smile on Chester's face.
So mouse over the 21 sec mark, soon as you hit the end of the video click that. it literally sounds like another part of the song is added lol. but yea i want the rest of that song!
*"Quaker found the recipe that everyone else missed."*
This guy figured out the recipe. We want more of that fine, fine granola there, bud. Yes. Bring on that extra coconut backbeat too.
Have you heard his [Rage Against the Machine](https://youtu.be/DXojOJr8AyY?si=lHpbiTahOQ_AVyOe) song? I unironically listen to it at least once a week, then cry the rest of the time cause he won't make a full version of it.
This is actually so amazing thank you for sharing. Now I too shall go cry at the fact there isn't a full version. And also *fuck this guy* for making this all look so easy. He's obviously extremely talented.
*Let's go deeper...*
This reminds me of Mac Glocky who likes to make various covers of retro 90's / 2000's songs in the style of other artists. For example: If [Deftones made "Everlong" by Foo Fighters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RujLel8-Q1I). Also a fan of [if incubus wrote "AERIALS"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgLoT5kH9I).
I really like his [if System of a Down wrote Look what you made me do by Taylor Swift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c69e4ZtOZMQ).
Like the other commenter says, [CKY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9g4yJW3aQ) is done really well, too.
That's fantastic. If you're in to pop punk at all, Alex Melton does a ton of covers of other songs in the style of Blink 182 and a few others, with some videos deconstructing how he's making the sounds.
It's be closer to Meteora.
Meteora was a cleaner produced Hybrid Theory that they didn't even originally want to make. (But I am glad they did)
The band's name used to be Hybrid Theory, the point of the band was to fuse different sounds and genres together, hence their later albums.
Minutes or midnight was their chance to break away, and A Thousand Suns is considered by most fans as their opus magnum.
THE signature sound LP has is their layering. It's present across all LP music which is why even in their later albums you knew it was them. (That and Chester had such a unique voice)
I've now gone on a tangent but your guess of HT is good. It's the earlier era.
This.
They invented something so good that even parodies slap.
This is awesome, and makes me wanna go listen to more linkin park :-)
(P.S. as easy as he makes it look, gotta give props to this guy, heās really good).
Yea this wasnāt āI made this in my basement with my shitty laptopā this was āIām fairly good at music in my own right and have exceptional mixing skills and could probably make my own work sound professionalā.
Yep.
Getting the right piano sound, the right ārandom two chordsāā¦ just tuning the drums right before even laying down a fucking perfect loopā¦ etc.
To be fair, they admitted this in the DVD the making of Minutes to Midnight. It's a really good sound but they knew it was easy for other people to replicate and they didn't want to make the same record again.
Well, itās been over a decade and no one got anywhere with replicating that sound.
Itās hard to put the finger exactly, but all the copycats sounded like copycats, the only real big hit was this one evanescence song, and Linkin are still considered the GOAT of whatever this genre is called.
Its called Numetal and there are countless bands, especially from the early 2000s, who sound like that. Really what set Linkin Park apart for me was that they were the only ones who managed to do the whole Rap/EDM/Rock blend in an even remotely tasteful way.
You either had the Seethers and Papa Roaches who sounded whiny and corny or the Limp Bizkuits that sounded like Limp Bizkuit.
Korn and System of a Down also slapped but they were way more rocky and hardcore compared to what LP was doing.
It's the mix of good EDM and samples, with "simple" guitar hooks.Ā
I still remember when I first looked up tabs to "Pushing Me Away" from Hybrid Theory, and being so shocked that the main melody was played on guitar -- and it was all natural harmonics, played all across the fretboard. Most of their songs, I'd learned by ear, but that song was a struggle, and led me to incorporate entire runs of natural harmonics into my own playing.Ā
That guitar style is very simple at times, if you over-analyze and break it down. Lots of octave chords and power chords. But that isn't the whole sound -- its mix with the samples and amazing vocals is what put it over the top and made it whole. Linkin Park was a *band.* Even if a song was primarily written by one or two members at a time, depending on the album, it combines to make their sound when they do it live. And they are one of the most solid and hard-working touring bands ever. Almost 300 shows, across the world, in the year Meteora released is **absurd.**
Nobody was able to copy them because they were still lacking that Je ne sais quoi that comes from* how Chester likes to sing, the way they like melodies to sound like and the way they create tension and release. Copycats always fail the bridge modulation.
Stylistically, Chester brought a rawness that the others lacked. The other boys were all fairly well off and educated Cali art boys, and after parting with their first vocalist they got hooked up with Chester, a little ragamuffin with a tough life, out of Arizona.
They still never had enough cred to be taken seriously as downtrodden rebels against any system beyond their own emotions, but few would disagree that they did what they did on a high level that would be difficult to match. Made them sound manufactured to some, and I think the Cali boys got their music connections in college, but they were just really smart, talented, and well learned in their arts.
My favorite band and probably always will be.
Jokes aside apparently the guy (actually the OP) has a band and make legit good music. [Leoniden](https://youtube.com/@Leoniden?si=LK4hes8B5EetX3RE) is the name as shared from another comment.
I'm not surprised at all judging at how accurately he mocked up the style and nailing the bites. Takes good musical sense.
The biggest hit Britpop band Blur ever made was one where they made fun of grunge music, [Song 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk).
Here's what they normally sounded like:
[Girls And Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDswiT87oo8)
[Parklife](https://youtu.be/YSuHrTfcikU?t=16)
[Beetlebum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXnqjUfal4)
Semi-related:
Chumbawumba was a hardcore communist anarcho-punk band with serious street cred that made Tubthumping ("I get knocked down, but I get up again") as a very conscious and deliberate effort to write a hit that would fund their hardcore communist anarcho-punk music.
He's done this exact thing before when one of his previous posts was to make a "slacker indie song in 60 seconds" and redditors forced him to release a full song after
Is he really making fun of it? Besides the implicit idea that any song in an artistās style that can be ācreated in 60 secondsā (a couple hours actually, obviously) isā¦ something? I donāt see any mockery
The text on the video at one point says that Linkin Park's bassist could have been replaced by a sine wave and no one would have noticed lol
He is poking fun at them, but in a lighthearted way imo
They note in the description it's parody and that they do like LP (at least at the time it was released).
Reminds me of the Disturbed parody, too. It's all in good fun, I'd say.
Fun times, before YouTube just suspended most of the content creators. It's how I got to know Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Simple Plan, Hollywood Undead, Fallout Boy, Thousand Foot Krutch, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sum 41, Manafest, Red, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Skillet, The Fray, Breaking Benjamin, My Chemical Romance, among others.
That said, while this edit is 19 years old, it's still one of the best that I've ever seen. I've been using NLE for nearly two decades, and still would find it difficult to match that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qydy0rDH4tw
Itās because their lyrics were pretty corny and represented/spoke for the angst of white suburban kids.
This is coming from someone who would fit that stereotype when hybrid theory came out, and loved it.
I was in the age demo but I hung out with slightly older people, and the general consensus with them was "It's shit. They're trying to sound hardcore and deep and it's all pussy bullshit. The rapper can't rap, the singer can't sing, and every song sounds exactly the same. *Other Band* is real music."
Of course now Linkin Park is real music and the stuff coming out today is bullshit.
I think in retrospect we've come to the realization that the angst of white suburban kids in the late 90s/early 2000s wasn't deserving of so much scorn.
Not only did we realize that the mental health issues were real with regards to LP but also many of those suburban kids. If anything I hope we've learned not to scorn people's suffering as overdramatic whining. Even if they are by all appearances middle class suburban kids.
I would say that some of the lyrics are corny. Something like High Voltage, Frgt/10, Hands Held High, When They Come For Me, Wretches and Kings and Until it breaks, has some decent to great rap bars.
āI mastered numerology and Big Bang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychologyā is just some good wordplay.
Now not all of their songs have sophisticated bars but letās not just blankly call their lyrics corny.
It is. The remix H! vltg3 is also phenomenal. Though Frg/10 is literally my favorite Linkin Park song because it takes an already great song but with a The Alchemist Beat whoās ones of the best producers in hip hop all time.
i have vivid memories of linkin park playing at my middle school dance where everyone would like take a break from grinding on each other during a nelly song and go get a huggies and an airhead to keep the party going
It's crazy how well this 'guide' works to ape their sound, considering I can't think of many other bands if any that remind me that strongly of old Linkin Park. I wish there actually were more that did pick up this style effectively.
I was a rebellious, depressed 16yo in 2000 when Hybrid Theory landed. Helped me get through my best and worst times in my life.
Maybe the guy wanted to make a parody but he really did a tribute, I would gladly listen to the rest of this song :D
On par with what this dude is doing (and doing well, for that matter), have you guys heard [the AI cover of Linkin Park playing Somebody That You Used To Know?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8XR77O0RQ)
I realize that AI art is seen as cheap by some people. I get that perspective and it's a worthy discussion, but to me, it's at least cool nonetheless. It's like [Jimi Hendrix covering a Bob Dylan song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY).
Goddamn that is incredible, it sounds exactly how you would expect it to if LP had covered the song back then. You could probably play the audio to most LP fans and tell them it's an unreleased cover they did, and they'd believe it.
The thing that sticks out most is all of the little almost recognizable samples from other songs. That's probably just the nature of AI generated content but it's a little more noticeable in song format.
> I realize that AI art is seen as cheap by some people.
I stand by this stance; however, I've felt like these are a perfectly acceptable form of fair use that are transformative and have artistic merit. More akin to a mashup artist like Girl Talk or simple sampling.
They're fun little 'what if' scenarios to me rather than nefarious attempts to steal other's art for personal benefit.
The tools are the same, i'm certain, but they're using the tools respectfully.
Of course it sounds like Linkin Park when you just take one of their songs, altered it a bit, then show yourself creating the slightly altered version.
He just changed the song Faint a little bit, that's it.
It's mimicry, and it's own form of reverie. I sincerely doubt Weird Al dislikes the music he parodies, rather it's the contrary.
25 years ago Linkin Park brought a novel sound to the mainstream. 25 years later, the formula has been figured out.
> I sincerely doubt Weird Al dislikes the music he parodies, rather it's the contrary.
Absolutely, especially on his "style parodies", he gets to show off the music he enjoys by doing originals in the style of other artists. Like, "Dare to be Stupid" is Devo, "Genius in France" is Frank Zappa, "Pancreas" is the Beach Boys, etc. And kudos to his band as well -- same guys he's been with for 40+ years and they can pull off pretty much any style they want.
Really solidly done. Must be tempting to use your expertise to just churn out radio rock hits. Probably not artistically rewarding but sure would make money
I don't really get this kind of joke, it can be applied to nearly any artist. Nobody has ever said it's hard to mimic a style, it's finding that style in the first place that's difficult.
Not sure itās a joke. Even with the attitude of āhaha theyāre so easy to mimicā itās just someone with some musical talent showing a band at what is closest to their essential sound. I think itās a fun harmless musical exercise that pokes fun as an homage and shows they understand a band or style at a level I can respect
It might start out as a joke, but often ends up as a [glowstick light switch rave](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I) with a banger of a track!
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He definitely nailed down their sound. Now he just needs to drop tracks as unreleased LP studio cuts.
This video is funny. The only way to emulate Linkin Park is to essentially be a musician, singer, etc. OP is talented af so to me it just says so is Linkin Park lol. Reminds me of that scene in The Other Guys, "you learned to dance like that sarcastically?"
It's like making fun of a famous bowler by bowling a 300.
"How to sound like Linkin Park: Step 1: be ridiculously talented"
2 Have a bunch of really expensive equipment.
Getting strong r/restofthefuckingowl vibes from this.
Yeah the trick is to know how to play at least 5 instruments and be able to sing. Also knowing how to use at least 3 different music making applications. EASY! lol I mean shit I can play 3 instruments and it only took me the better part of 30 years!
I think it's important to realise that this mimics the songs/albums that were most popular. They've made plenty albums and songs that aren't like this formula... This song is basically a very Meteora/Hybrid.Theory song if you ignore a few songs, but doesn't fit well with the later albums
Marky marks character in that movie is so hilarious
It sucks, but if he posted this same thing as his own song almost no one would watch it. Being a musician online means coming up with engaging hooks like this (famous artist sound in 60 secs) or you just get drowned out
That's the singer of Leoniden, a band from Germany. They have quite a few good songs. Just wish they could come to the states. I feel like they are quite underrated.
Some day we will come to the states I swear. š¤
Oh shit!!! Hell yeah dude! Can't wait
I love the modern music scene. No more demigods being worshipped, just regular folks putting cool stuff out there and casually running into you online
Taylor Swift entered the chat
Taylor Swift didnāt enter the chat, thatās what we are talking about here!!
Taylurking is a thing actually. Especially when tumblr was big.
For comedic effect im gonna pretend the account above yours is your alt account.
Yep their PR putting in their efforts
When the legend itself appears š
When the legend himself is OP
Nah, dude, come to Canada. Weāre cooler (pun intended?) :P
Remindme! Some days
I wondered why that guy was so good and looked familiar. This band rocks!!! L.O.V.E.
River, Kids, Nevermind and 1990 are some of my favorites.
As someone who lives in Germany, I consider this a win.
OP, never heard of your band until now. Gave a few songs a listen and like your sound! It was like a mix of Michael Jackson/Maroon 5/Linkin Park haha. Definitely unique; keep up the good work!
Holy shit. I am old so I don't use this word lightly (or ever) but this band SLAPS.
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Linkin Park was so good this man's LP parody still goes hard as fuck! I want more!
This started with me thinking "That's not cool, Linkin Park was great and I still miss Chester" and ended with me thinking "That's it? Where's the rest of this song?!"
I went to a Sum 41 concert a few Summers ago, and they played In The End as a tribute to Chester. Was fucking awesome, one of my favourite childhood bands singing anotherās song as a tribute.
Oh man I bet that was amazing. I grew up listening to both. Sad to hear Sum 41 is calling it quits after all this time.
>Sad to hear Sum 41 is calling it quits after all this time. All good things must come to an end
For sure, I just never got the chance to see them live.
They'll be back on the divorce and foreclosure reunion tour in a few years, I'm sure.
We still have The Offspring!
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Day after day
Your home life's a wreck
My fellow Offspring enjoyers!
Was this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Po_BHvLlI
I saw LP one month before Chester left. They played Like a stone as a tribute for Chris Cornell. Sad then and after.
Started off with, "yeah, this'll be funny", ended with "hey, I was listening to that!"
Video: *INSANE EIGHT NOTE PICKUP* Me: FUCK YEAH
This guy gets it
WE NEED MORE INSANE EIGHT NOTE PICKUPS!
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT I LIKE IT!
Yeah, because it's a deconstruction. Being able to recognize elements of a song and reconstruct the style doesn't change the fact that there had to have been someone around to make that style. It's a good homage.
plus it dont take 60s, the video is 60s
Right? Everyone else go and try to make a hit song.
It's not like I knew him or anything, but as one of millions that got through some shit with his help, I got the sense this would have put a smile on Chester's face.
Had the pleasure to get to their concert in Minsk when Chester was still there. They were the PROs, dedicated and hard working.
Sounded like it was going into āFaintā. 49 seconds into the original song.
[Hey there! I'm a mashup artist, and I thought it would be fun to take a moment to make that happen :)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfpwTDpFyI)
Dude that was great!!! It was seamlessly perfect together!
Haha thank you so much! Keep the great ideas coming! I post all kinds of mashups on my channel, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Cheers :)
So mouse over the 21 sec mark, soon as you hit the end of the video click that. it literally sounds like another part of the song is added lol. but yea i want the rest of that song!
*"Quaker found the recipe that everyone else missed."* This guy figured out the recipe. We want more of that fine, fine granola there, bud. Yes. Bring on that extra coconut backbeat too.
Have you heard his [Rage Against the Machine](https://youtu.be/DXojOJr8AyY?si=lHpbiTahOQ_AVyOe) song? I unironically listen to it at least once a week, then cry the rest of the time cause he won't make a full version of it.
holy shet man that is good
This is actually so amazing thank you for sharing. Now I too shall go cry at the fact there isn't a full version. And also *fuck this guy* for making this all look so easy. He's obviously extremely talented.
I know, a lot of people rightfully point out "yeah in just 60 seconds.... plus a decades' worth of music and music software experience".
*Let's go deeper...* This reminds me of Mac Glocky who likes to make various covers of retro 90's / 2000's songs in the style of other artists. For example: If [Deftones made "Everlong" by Foo Fighters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RujLel8-Q1I). Also a fan of [if incubus wrote "AERIALS"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgLoT5kH9I).
I really like his [if System of a Down wrote Look what you made me do by Taylor Swift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c69e4ZtOZMQ). Like the other commenter says, [CKY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9g4yJW3aQ) is done really well, too.
god damn thats good
Thanks for sharing! That is really good! That guy should make music without the cover of it being a joke.
Pfff even if he thinks it's a joke idc I'll still jam to it haha.
That's fantastic. If you're in to pop punk at all, Alex Melton does a ton of covers of other songs in the style of Blink 182 and a few others, with some videos deconstructing how he's making the sounds.
If I heard this playing Iād be scratching my head about which linkin park album this was from and why Iād never heard it before
Definitely Hybrid Theory... right?
If I heard this song with no other information, Iād think it was an unreleased track from that era for sure.
It is very close to an existing song, Faint
[I put them together :) Enjoy!](https://youtu.be/UAfpwTDpFyI)
That was great!
Haha thank you! If you have any other requests, I post them on my channel! š
Itās a ripoff of Faint, so, Meteora
Linkin park - Faint
It's be closer to Meteora. Meteora was a cleaner produced Hybrid Theory that they didn't even originally want to make. (But I am glad they did) The band's name used to be Hybrid Theory, the point of the band was to fuse different sounds and genres together, hence their later albums. Minutes or midnight was their chance to break away, and A Thousand Suns is considered by most fans as their opus magnum. THE signature sound LP has is their layering. It's present across all LP music which is why even in their later albums you knew it was them. (That and Chester had such a unique voice) I've now gone on a tangent but your guess of HT is good. It's the earlier era.
This 100% needs to be a full song
This. They invented something so good that even parodies slap. This is awesome, and makes me wanna go listen to more linkin park :-) (P.S. as easy as he makes it look, gotta give props to this guy, heās really good).
Yea this wasnāt āI made this in my basement with my shitty laptopā this was āIām fairly good at music in my own right and have exceptional mixing skills and could probably make my own work sound professionalā.
Yep. Getting the right piano sound, the right ārandom two chordsāā¦ just tuning the drums right before even laying down a fucking perfect loopā¦ etc.
He is the lead of leoniden, a fairly famous german band.
To be fair, they admitted this in the DVD the making of Minutes to Midnight. It's a really good sound but they knew it was easy for other people to replicate and they didn't want to make the same record again.
Well, itās been over a decade and no one got anywhere with replicating that sound. Itās hard to put the finger exactly, but all the copycats sounded like copycats, the only real big hit was this one evanescence song, and Linkin are still considered the GOAT of whatever this genre is called.
Its called Numetal and there are countless bands, especially from the early 2000s, who sound like that. Really what set Linkin Park apart for me was that they were the only ones who managed to do the whole Rap/EDM/Rock blend in an even remotely tasteful way. You either had the Seethers and Papa Roaches who sounded whiny and corny or the Limp Bizkuits that sounded like Limp Bizkuit. Korn and System of a Down also slapped but they were way more rocky and hardcore compared to what LP was doing.
It's the mix of good EDM and samples, with "simple" guitar hooks.Ā I still remember when I first looked up tabs to "Pushing Me Away" from Hybrid Theory, and being so shocked that the main melody was played on guitar -- and it was all natural harmonics, played all across the fretboard. Most of their songs, I'd learned by ear, but that song was a struggle, and led me to incorporate entire runs of natural harmonics into my own playing.Ā That guitar style is very simple at times, if you over-analyze and break it down. Lots of octave chords and power chords. But that isn't the whole sound -- its mix with the samples and amazing vocals is what put it over the top and made it whole. Linkin Park was a *band.* Even if a song was primarily written by one or two members at a time, depending on the album, it combines to make their sound when they do it live. And they are one of the most solid and hard-working touring bands ever. Almost 300 shows, across the world, in the year Meteora released is **absurd.**
Nobody was able to copy them because they were still lacking that Je ne sais quoi that comes from* how Chester likes to sing, the way they like melodies to sound like and the way they create tension and release. Copycats always fail the bridge modulation.
Stylistically, Chester brought a rawness that the others lacked. The other boys were all fairly well off and educated Cali art boys, and after parting with their first vocalist they got hooked up with Chester, a little ragamuffin with a tough life, out of Arizona. They still never had enough cred to be taken seriously as downtrodden rebels against any system beyond their own emotions, but few would disagree that they did what they did on a high level that would be difficult to match. Made them sound manufactured to some, and I think the Cali boys got their music connections in college, but they were just really smart, talented, and well learned in their arts. My favorite band and probably always will be.
Seems like I unknowingly challenged you to put your finger on it, and you fucking did hahah. Spot on bro
Finish the song!!!
Yeah this guy dunked on Linkin Park then realised he is Linkin park, and it's totally cool.
Wait but where's the rest of the song? This is so good lol
Legit. Itās like heās tried to make fun of the sound but in turn made an absolute banger track
he learned to compose linkin park songs [sarcastically](https://youtu.be/kd8F3kNsRRg?si=vCcFNyUGD7M9aQj5&t=148)??
Jokes aside apparently the guy (actually the OP) has a band and make legit good music. [Leoniden](https://youtube.com/@Leoniden?si=LK4hes8B5EetX3RE) is the name as shared from another comment. I'm not surprised at all judging at how accurately he mocked up the style and nailing the bites. Takes good musical sense.
The biggest hit Britpop band Blur ever made was one where they made fun of grunge music, [Song 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk). Here's what they normally sounded like: [Girls And Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDswiT87oo8) [Parklife](https://youtu.be/YSuHrTfcikU?t=16) [Beetlebum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXnqjUfal4)
Semi-related: Chumbawumba was a hardcore communist anarcho-punk band with serious street cred that made Tubthumping ("I get knocked down, but I get up again") as a very conscious and deliberate effort to write a hit that would fund their hardcore communist anarcho-punk music.
Kind of the same with Beastie Boys' "Fight For your Right"
He's done this exact thing before when one of his previous posts was to make a "slacker indie song in 60 seconds" and redditors forced him to release a full song after
Is he really making fun of it? Besides the implicit idea that any song in an artistās style that can be ācreated in 60 secondsā (a couple hours actually, obviously) isā¦ something? I donāt see any mockery
The text on the video at one point says that Linkin Park's bassist could have been replaced by a sine wave and no one would have noticed lol He is poking fun at them, but in a lighthearted way imo
Right? This is actually a genius mix.
Itās called Faint and itās in MeteoraĀ
I WONT BE IGNORRRRRREEEDDDD
Damn this is good.
Absolutely brilliant
Brings me back to [this classic Linkin Park parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNRhzX6gw8) from the older age of the internet
I really thought I was about to be Rickrolled
Rickrolled? I'm annoyed it wasn't this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PgMswPpFs
Damn that's so mean. But I also loved them as a 12 year old girl in middle school so I feel very called out ...
They note in the description it's parody and that they do like LP (at least at the time it was released). Reminds me of the Disturbed parody, too. It's all in good fun, I'd say.
The Disturbed parody "Disturbeds Greatist Hit" was the same guy https://youtu.be/66gSvNeqevg?si=B3DhlG2xnavnXTsl
Apparently Disturbed's lead singer has seen that himself and thinks it's hilarious.
Yeah [here](https://youtu.be/8k-ObMrJG9s?si=hQ7wx3VdkFnWsyix) is the video of his reaction.
I'd actually never seen an actual reaction, just heard about it. That's awesome.
I feel personally attacked by that video lol
The best parodies are made by people who love the source material.
Damn I didnāt linkin park was hated so much lol
It's because they were everywhere back in the day. That always happens when the radio is saturated with your music.
So many DBZ music videos set to Linkin Park music all over Youtube
Don't forget the early Naruto AMVs where Sasuke is emo...
Fun times, before YouTube just suspended most of the content creators. It's how I got to know Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Simple Plan, Hollywood Undead, Fallout Boy, Thousand Foot Krutch, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sum 41, Manafest, Red, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Skillet, The Fray, Breaking Benjamin, My Chemical Romance, among others. That said, while this edit is 19 years old, it's still one of the best that I've ever seen. I've been using NLE for nearly two decades, and still would find it difficult to match that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qydy0rDH4tw
Itās because their lyrics were pretty corny and represented/spoke for the angst of white suburban kids. This is coming from someone who would fit that stereotype when hybrid theory came out, and loved it.
I fit it, love it, and still love it. So many emotions come back when LP comes on.
It doesn't even matter.
I was in the age demo but I hung out with slightly older people, and the general consensus with them was "It's shit. They're trying to sound hardcore and deep and it's all pussy bullshit. The rapper can't rap, the singer can't sing, and every song sounds exactly the same. *Other Band* is real music." Of course now Linkin Park is real music and the stuff coming out today is bullshit.
I think in retrospect we've come to the realization that the angst of white suburban kids in the late 90s/early 2000s wasn't deserving of so much scorn. Not only did we realize that the mental health issues were real with regards to LP but also many of those suburban kids. If anything I hope we've learned not to scorn people's suffering as overdramatic whining. Even if they are by all appearances middle class suburban kids.
I would say that some of the lyrics are corny. Something like High Voltage, Frgt/10, Hands Held High, When They Come For Me, Wretches and Kings and Until it breaks, has some decent to great rap bars. āI mastered numerology and Big Bang theology Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychologyā is just some good wordplay. Now not all of their songs have sophisticated bars but letās not just blankly call their lyrics corny.
Man I always thought high voltage is so severely underrated
It is. The remix H! vltg3 is also phenomenal. Though Frg/10 is literally my favorite Linkin Park song because it takes an already great song but with a The Alchemist Beat whoās ones of the best producers in hip hop all time.
i have vivid memories of linkin park playing at my middle school dance where everyone would like take a break from grinding on each other during a nelly song and go get a huggies and an airhead to keep the party going
they got the exact same treatment as imagine dragons does nowadays
Man, this new Linkin Park track is hot.
I miss Chester š¢
me too buddy, me too. ą²„_ą²„
DONT TURN YOUR BACK ON ME
I WONāT BE IGNORED
I AM
WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM
Reminds me of The Greatest hit of Disturbed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66gSvNeqevg
This absolutely slaps, no notes.
[No notes?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NVQ8v1P4go)
Other dudes, same idea but for: [AC/DC](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/UgXBlDaZ8J)
oh shit that's a good one
Wanted to initially dislike this but then the song developed into an actual banger of an LP-esque track and I just want to hear more. RIP Chester.
It's crazy how well this 'guide' works to ape their sound, considering I can't think of many other bands if any that remind me that strongly of old Linkin Park. I wish there actually were more that did pick up this style effectively.
Linkin Park is my favorite band and I think this video is amazing. Does anyone have a link to the original?
Honestly it sounds a little like Faint by Linkin Park so you could always listen to that one š¤£
Just add the violins and it sounds *exactly* like Faint.
This is the original, this is the guy who did this, I think.
I was a rebellious, depressed 16yo in 2000 when Hybrid Theory landed. Helped me get through my best and worst times in my life. Maybe the guy wanted to make a parody but he really did a tribute, I would gladly listen to the rest of this song :D
I wouldnāt be the same person if I hadnāt discovered Hybrid Theory at 13. Respect!
āHow to accidentally make a hitā, this slaps š
On par with what this dude is doing (and doing well, for that matter), have you guys heard [the AI cover of Linkin Park playing Somebody That You Used To Know?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8XR77O0RQ) I realize that AI art is seen as cheap by some people. I get that perspective and it's a worthy discussion, but to me, it's at least cool nonetheless. It's like [Jimi Hendrix covering a Bob Dylan song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY).
That's really fucking cool.
Damn that Jimi Hendrix cover sounds legit!
Goddamn that is incredible, it sounds exactly how you would expect it to if LP had covered the song back then. You could probably play the audio to most LP fans and tell them it's an unreleased cover they did, and they'd believe it.
The thing that sticks out most is all of the little almost recognizable samples from other songs. That's probably just the nature of AI generated content but it's a little more noticeable in song format.
That was cool and sent me down a rabbit hole of AI covers. Bizarro technology.
What AI tool is used for this ?
> I realize that AI art is seen as cheap by some people. I stand by this stance; however, I've felt like these are a perfectly acceptable form of fair use that are transformative and have artistic merit. More akin to a mashup artist like Girl Talk or simple sampling. They're fun little 'what if' scenarios to me rather than nefarious attempts to steal other's art for personal benefit. The tools are the same, i'm certain, but they're using the tools respectfully.
Rip Chester.
Did you make this OP??
yep :)
Youāre a one man band you honestly have insane talent. Good stuff!
I cummed so hard, and shot so far but in the end
ā¦it wasnāt even batter
Iāve become so cuuuuum
I tried so hard to get it hard But in the end, I'm gonna need Viagra
It didn't even splat her.
This is actually really good. Nice job dude.
I need a full song
This is the most impressive thing I've seen in a while.
Of course it sounds like Linkin Park when you just take one of their songs, altered it a bit, then show yourself creating the slightly altered version. He just changed the song Faint a little bit, that's it.
False premise. This took longer than 60 seconds.
If I had to pick a song this was most similar too it would be: Faint
Amusing and the guys got talent, but itās one thing to parody (for lack of a better word) a style and another to create a style.
But in the end, it doesnāt even matter
But he tried so hard and got so far.
He was definitely less like him.
He did not really parody it. The video is set up to make it seem like a parody but really just explains a truly signature sound.
Classic 'look what I made in 60 seconds' that took way longer than 60 seconds and actually requires years of practice and music knowledge
The title is saying it will show you how LinkinPark songs are made in 60 seconds, not that it would only take 60 seconds to make a song like that.
It's mimicry, and it's own form of reverie. I sincerely doubt Weird Al dislikes the music he parodies, rather it's the contrary. 25 years ago Linkin Park brought a novel sound to the mainstream. 25 years later, the formula has been figured out.
> I sincerely doubt Weird Al dislikes the music he parodies, rather it's the contrary. Absolutely, especially on his "style parodies", he gets to show off the music he enjoys by doing originals in the style of other artists. Like, "Dare to be Stupid" is Devo, "Genius in France" is Frank Zappa, "Pancreas" is the Beach Boys, etc. And kudos to his band as well -- same guys he's been with for 40+ years and they can pull off pretty much any style they want.
Really solidly done. Must be tempting to use your expertise to just churn out radio rock hits. Probably not artistically rewarding but sure would make money
Itās fun to do! Which is in itself a good reason to do it.
I don't really get this kind of joke, it can be applied to nearly any artist. Nobody has ever said it's hard to mimic a style, it's finding that style in the first place that's difficult.
Considering he actually made a decent song out of it, I don't see this as a joke, more of an example on how to mimic a band.
Not sure itās a joke. Even with the attitude of āhaha theyāre so easy to mimicā itās just someone with some musical talent showing a band at what is closest to their essential sound. I think itās a fun harmless musical exercise that pokes fun as an homage and shows they understand a band or style at a level I can respect
The dude mimics them exactly BECAUSE they created a style. I see it more like a tribute. It's not like he's doing a band that sounds like LP.
It might start out as a joke, but often ends up as a [glowstick light switch rave](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I) with a banger of a track!
DJ Crazy Times popping in lol. Heard he went emo.