Good Goodbye, Chester-Bennington.
"Good Goodbye", a song from Lincoln Park's latest album, is still flowing in the world, but the lead singer of the song is no longer there.
Foreign media reported that Chester Bennington hanged himself at home. His body, aged 41, was found in his home just before 9am local time on Thursday.
Michael Shinoda, one of the members of the group, confirmed the news in a Tweet, "Shocked, heartbroken, but really!" We will make a statement as soon as possible. ”
Many Chinese music fans said that this was the only foreign orchestra they knew of, and their songs were still played on their phones, but they saw the news of Chester Bennington's death online.
There are also many people who don't realize until the news is full of Chester Bennington's name: Who is Lincoln Park? 2 Grammy Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 4 MTV Music Video Awards, 10 MTV European Music Awards, 3 World Music Awards... Since the release of their debut album in 2000, the American heavy metal rock band has released a total of seven albums and has long been at the top of the world's pop music. If that doesn't remind you of them, then the sky-piercing treble of the Transformers 3 theme song is always ok!
Although it is likely to be the enlightenment metal band of countless teenagers, their songs are often criticized for not rocking enough, and among the metal rock band singers who depict death and other extreme styles, Lincoln Park is simply a small freshness. Chaste Bennington, who joined later, has gradually become the soul of the band.
Regarding the death of this genius, there are many disagreements, Chester was sexually abused by an adult man in his childhood, and there are also foreign media reports that the reason why Chester chose to commit suicide on July 20 may be related to his extremely good friend, Soundgarden band and Audioslave lead singer Chris Cornell, because July 20 is Chris Cornell's birthday.
But seriously, no one knows exactly why Chester left.
People often use sentences like this because of a person's departure: this person has left, and an era is over. This statement, though respectful, is often exaggerated, but this time we can say with certainty that after Chester-Bennington left, an era really followed him.
Chester's childhood hazes were not remembered by the world until he died
Five days ago, a fan uploaded two photos from the Chester-Bennington hit and wrote a message that read, "ChesterBe should bring back this hairstyle." Chester left a message saying I agree, this guy broke his word.
The reason for Chester's suicide is destined to become the Goldbach conjecture of the European and American music scenes. He didn't explain why he left, so people can only look for the reasons for his death from his experience.
In past interviews, Chester revealed that he was sexually assaulted by an adult man from the age of 7, but did not want to seek help because he did not want others to think that he was gay or lying, which led to such sexual abuse continuing until the age of 13. He later talked to his father about the matter and found that the perpetrator was also a victim himself, so he did not continue to pursue the matter. But because of this incident, he once confessed that he had been thinking about taking his life for many years.
Chester also has always had problems with drug and alcohol addiction. His parents divorced when he was 11 years old, and custody belonged to his father, but his father himself was a police officer, often absent from home, his older siblings were almost all away from home, he was ostracized at school, and he also said that in high school, he classified himself as a freak who was often bullied.
Sexual assault and school bullying leave the same scars in any country, especially sexual abuse of minors, which is even more unforgivable. But as a violated person, what he must face is not the fear of sexual assault itself, but the fear of being treated as a homosexual, which is the most desperate place behind this matter.
If Chaste chooses to point out against the strange eyes and bravely fight back against the injurer, maybe the damage can be compensated and life can go on, unlike now: But Chester chose to forgive, which is equivalent to beating himself into the eighteenth layer of hell, and the heart can never get peace, and he can never turn over.
But we all thought he could stand it. Who is he? He's Lincoln Park!
Unfortunately, we all confused the boundaries of art and life, and no matter what percentage of childhood nightmares accounted for in his decision to commit suicide, the result was this tough guy, he didn't hold on.
Positive rock, gentle stirring
It's hard to say exactly what Lincoln Park is singing. I mean, you can't classify the music of Lincoln Park at all, they sing heavy metal rock, but people have never seen heavy metal rock with such clean lyrics.
The music at Lincoln Park is a mix of rap, heavy metal, hip hop, and electronic dance music. Although they are all pointed to the bitterness, anger and confusion of the young people of this era, there is no insult or blasphemy, compared to the so-called heavy metal rock that puts anger on the lips, Lincoln Park buries the anger in the heart.
What they sang was a gentle stirring.
Compared with those who flaunt personality, in fact, it seems that the products in the heavy metal assembly line, the music of Lincoln Park, is the real personality. To this day, when it comes to the successor of Lincoln Park, I can't even think of anyone to take on.
They are unique. As soon as you are born, it is like a day in the sky.
In 2001, their debut album "Hybrid Theory" achieved the highest sales in the United States, occupying the top 5 positions in the album sales chart for 75 consecutive weeks, and still constantly breaking their sales records until today.
Then, meteora, Minutes To Midnight, A Thousand Suns, Living Things, The Hunting Party, until the last album — yes, we can almost say that without Chester, even if Lincoln Park had sung it, it wouldn't have been the past.
The last album was called One More Light — it sounded like one of Chester's worst jokes with the world.
But like all geniuses, Lincoln Park has always been misunderstood. They repeat, "The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band, and we think that our music is made up of a lot of genres of music, a synthesis that grows up with the six of us." ”
Yeah, it's such a superficial thing to summarize Lincoln Park in heavy metal and high pitches, but the most loved thing in this era is labeling. But whether the label makes Lincoln Park unique, or whether the label misunderstands the uniqueness of Lincoln Park, the question is probably lost forever.
When Lincoln Park stood on the stage and sang the blooming power of the despair of young people in an era, rock and roll, pop music, the so-called style, nothing more.
Lincoln Park's whispering without dirty words is the real rock's roll. It's real pop music.
The man said he loved Beijing, and Li Jian and Wang Sicong had come to his concerts
There's no need to repeat which summer night in Beijing is so fanatical, July 26, 2015.
Wang Sicong sat in the front row of the Workers' Stadium concert early, and Li Jian also quietly appeared on the scene in worship. Tickets for the concert sold out early in the morning, and the scalpers couldn't grab tickets. What appeared in front of the audience was the third time to come to China's Lincoln Park.
In addition to more than 30,000 fans on the scene, there are more than 1.9 million netizens watching online, and on the network bullet screen, Chen Grain, Qin Hao, and Zuo Xiaozu are playing with netizens.
On that day, Lincoln Park sang "In The End", "Burn It Down", "What I've Done", "Numb", "New Divide" and other hottest works in the past, and fans also turned into a sea of stars many times, spontaneously turned on the flash of their mobile phones, and shook their arms with Linkin Park.
When Chester saw this scene, he was also moved to shout: "I have never seen such a moving view!" ”
They honestly told the media at the time that I didn't know much about the culture of Chinese rock bands. But I know a lot of bands, and I always tell them that if you want to be a band, the most important thing is that you have to be able to write good songs. A song that moves you, even with the simplest piano melody, will impress people more than the so-called "professional" songs that use a lot of high-tech synthesis to make effect.
The reason for making such waves in the Chinese market, of course, is that they are Lincoln Park.
There is no more Lincoln Park
From now on, Chinese fans will never hear Chaste's piercing highs again.
But what is even more impossible to replicate is the deep affection behind the anger and power of Lincoln Park music, the quiet outburst, the calm boiling, these labels in the bones of Lincoln Park.
Only Chester's high voice, his sharpness, the desperate bitterness of his life that he sang to the end, can poke the tears in the heart of the person who have nowhere to escape. Only the courage of the rest of the life in the music, the warmth of the cold, and the residual warmth left by the wanton indulgence have created the truly touching part of Lincoln Park.
It was only when Chester died that people could better understand the pain behind the excitement, and what kind of painful struggle to go through to sing such a bland eternity.
Just because he loves music, he gave everything, but he didn't defend his departure until death, but only used the last album to issue his own roar for the last time before he died.
41 years, without music, I don't know if Chester can survive for so long in this sad human world in his eyes.
For this man, it seems to be enough.
But for us fans, although what he has done has been incredibly powerful, incomparably shocking, incomparably moving, but it is far from enough.
Go to heaven, but he is still the one, cold and arrogant on the outside, empty in everything, but gentle as the ocean in his heart, he likes to hide all his heart and pain in his heart, even if he has the most tenderness in the world, he only puts it into the song, and his song seems to be against this world, in fact, a gentle reconciliation with this world.
Some people say That Linkin Park has changed, that their songs are no longer what they used to be, no longer "rock", no longer angry. Chester's death seemed to prove their point.
That's weird! Chester, you are the bravest man in the world. We are all willing to forgive you for not being brave in the moment you left.
Back to the night Chester came to China. Toward the end of the show, Chester said in a straight voice in standard Mandarin: "Thank you Beijing!" Many music fans still shout "Linkin Park", people do not want to leave, but they did not expect that it was the final parting.
We thought it was just Chester-Bennington who said goodbye, but actually sent away an era of gentle rock and roll created by Lincoln Park.
Disgusted people, pointing to the late Lincoln Park depravity and boredom, lost the spirit of rock and roll. People who say this have not figured out the true definition of the rock 'n' roll spirit from the very beginning.
Rock 'n' roll isn't just anger, it's not just about rebellion, it's not just about never looking back like a bird, it's about presenting the richest understanding of this complex world. Persistence doesn't have to be angry, it can also be gentle boiling.
The man suddenly got up from the earth and left, and there was no more Lincoln Park in the world.
But heaven, since then, there is one more singer who sings rock, continues to sing the sadness of rock and roll.
ONE More Light？NO More Light！