Linkin Park recruited new singer Emily Armstrong last year, and while there was always going to be some resistance from longtime fans in her replacing the late Chester Bennington, her arrival has been largely praised.
In an interview with Chicago’s Q101, Armstrong talked about the creative process in Linkin Park now, and when things began to click between herself and her new bandmates.
“It’s interesting because I think we’ve talked about it a lot where it’s just kind of, we didn’t run in the same circles,” she said. “It was so far and few between. But when we started writing again for the second time in the studio, things started to really click in a way where we found so many similarities that didn’t quite click before. I don’t know if this makes any sense, but there was so many things of being, like, ‘Wait, you worked with this guy? We did that with our first album.’ Literally so many things started to like come together where it’s just the synergy that is a kismet. Everything was just aligning in a way where it was so surreal to me, because I’m, like, how have I never met any of these people before, and then all of a sudden at this point where everything starts to really make sense and where we are in our lives as them as people in their band and me as an artist and in my band, how it really came together at a time where we both were looking for this. We found so many similarities that it just started bringing us closer and closer together. It was, like, ‘Okay, this is it.'”
Armstrong took some flak upon her arrival more having to do with her previous association to Scientology and her disgraced former friend, actor Danny Masterson. She made a statement at the time, however, that she no longer had anything to do with the ex-“That ‘70s Show” star.
Armstrong’s full interview can be viewed below.
