In a new interview with Mythical Kitchen, Mike Shinoda explains their decision to keep the name Linkin Park when returning with new single Emily Armstrong “The simple answer to that is because the music sounds like Linkin Park, like the DNA is all still in there. It’s obvious to anybody who listens to it and gives it a chance” “The second thing though, that like as we were navigating the decisions we were making about like what is the band like what do we want to, who's in the band who's playing what, all that…we could have chosen a male singer, we could have chosen somebody that sounded very different, we could have chosen somebody that sounded very similar. We could have had the singer of one of our cover bands who covers Linkin Park and is like a doppelganger like so close to Chester, yeah could have had them.” “So what we did end up doing, which just naturally felt better, not like it was a strategy, when Emily came in, it's like she sings so well she's a ton of fun to hang out with. We end up just sitting around for like two hours just talking yeah like that's the thing at the end of the day that made it obvious what direction we should go”
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