If Chester had killed himself after this album his death would've been bigger than Kurt Cobain's

If Chester had killed himself after this album his death would've been bigger than Kurt Cobain's

No

I can't argue against it

It would be even less relevant.
When Meteora came out, most grown ups were making fun of Linkin Park and its tween fans.
Now that the LP fans are actually older, and the guys who used to make fun of them don't even care anymore because too busy with adult life, people took Chester's death more seriously and emotional.
It would have been simply a joke if it happened back then.

it would have been a mess especially with the scene kids around then

His band at that point in time was bigger than Nirvana at the time of Cobain's death, but Cobain was also a big name in trashy gossip magazines, and Chester himself didn't really have a celebrity name so it's difficult to say.

yeah kurt was definitely tabloid big...

i remember seeing "KURT AND COURTNY'S ALIEN BABY EXPOSED!" tier shit at the checkout lines

if he had done it after Hybrid Theory, maybe.

If you remember, Meteora was a period when the band was already being accused to being an industry plant and that they had producers writing songs, to the point where they started doing "making of" documentaries because they were tired of the accusations.

Whether that was true or not (from what I've seen, their producer deserves as much credit for their sound and especially the lyrics which forced them to write over and over because they were subpar), Linkin Park was already a meme by the time Meteora released.

To be honest, I never thought of Linkin Park as edgy at all. The only reason why I believe they were hated was because they were associated with the nu metal scene, predominantly listened to by suburban mallcore teenagers. Linkin Park actually had the potential to make music beyond that silly genre, and delve into more experimental, avant-garde rock or metal, or even just indie rock itself. They unfortunately wasted that, and unwillingly got placed into that genre, along with Deftones.

However, their lyrics foreshadowed his untimely demise much earlier than we could fathom. We merely brushed aside them, seeing it as mere teenage angst (for whatever reason), and never took them seriously enough.

Now, we live in a world where sentient thoughts/genuine emotions have become extinct, replaced with ironic "dank" memes and jejune comedy as mere facades. Don't misinterpret me; I enjoy those types of humor as much as the next Sup Forums/Redditor out here, but not if it means throwing out everything that made us humans in the first place.

hybrid theory - 8/10
reanimation - 10/10
meteora - 7/10
minutes to midnight - 5/10
a thousand suns - 7.5
living things - 9/10
the hunting party - 6.5/10
one more light - 5/10