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REVIEW OF LINKIN PARK’S ‘MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT’

            ‘Minutes to Midnight’ is the third album of a rock band from California, Linkin Park. This album contains twelve songs written by themselves with Rick Rubin and the band’s former, Mike Shinoda as the producers.

            ‘Minutes to Midnight’ starts with an instrumental song called ‘Wake’ which seems to be an introduction to the album. Next is ‘Given Up’, a song about losing hope, but also represents anger. The mood changes with ‘Leave out All the Rest’, about weakness of someone’s life, and ‘Shadow of the Day’, a deeply meaningful song. Anger returns, in ‘Bleed It Out’, ‘No More Sorrow’ (an attack on a liar), and ‘In Pieces’ (about leaving a hypocrite), before the first single of this album, ‘What I’ve done’, a song about freedom and chaos. Like in ‘Bleed It Out’, Mike Shinoda also contributes his rap in ‘Hands Held High’, which is the representation of war’s situation. Even, in ‘In Between’, for the first time, he puts his singing vocal (without any rap) in a full song. Then, this album ends with mellow songs, ‘Valentine’s Day’ and ‘The Little Thing Give You Away’, a song for charity of Hurricane Katrina.

            Although ‘Minutes to Midnight’ has sold millions of copies around the world and has got some awards for the songs, I am quite disappointed with the album. It is because the songs are different than their style of music in their latest two albums, ‘Hybrid Theory’ and ‘Meteora’. They reduce the intensity of screaming of the vocalist, Chester Bennington, which always represents their real style of rock. The intensity of Mike Shinoda’s rap is also reduced. Both of these factors make the album to be dominated by mellow songs. It makes Linkin Park to be more a pop band than a rock one, in those songs.

            However, they have still highly qualified songs, which show the style of ‘real’ Linkin Park. By looking wholly at the album, I think ‘Minutes to Midnight’ is only a transformation of their musical personality to a deeper boundary.