In a recent interview with The Guardian, Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda discussed how the band eventually reunited. Despite it taking a while to materialize, Linkin Park has been riding high ever since with critically-acclaimed new music and stadium capacity concerts.
“I have a lot of respect for all those artists that do it and do it so well,” Shinoda said of bands who reunite. “For us, coming back this past year – a few years ago, we found ourselves starting to talk again for the first time. And like you said, it was a very organic thing. It just started with getting breakfast, getting lunch, having a coffee, you know, talking about ‘what if’ this, or ‘what if’ that. And eventually we met Colin and Emily, and they just felt like one of us. They just felt like they clicked with the band.”
Shinoda also spoke up when it comes to the band’s detractors. “I think that, for us, there have been since the beginning…everything we put out, there’s always people that love it and people that don’t like it. That’s just part of being an artist. Since the beginning, it’s kind of like we’ve realized that the most important thing, first and foremost, is that we love it and that we’re proud of what we’ve made.”
Shinoda continued: “And that we push ourselves the best we can, to do a great job and to make something that challenges us as writers and creators, and then do our best to communicate that in the live setting when we go on tour. It sounds simple, but the details and the actual execution of that couldn’t be more complicated or more difficult.”
