LP Concept album v/s TS concept album Videos

This is just like sort of something random, but i feel strongly about.

The LP MVs from A Thousand Suns were kind of like abstract, where as Taylor Swift's Mine video was more of like a story and even though it is typical of Taylor Swift to have a storyline in her songs and videos. But still. Speak Now is a concept album and I think as much as a video should represent the idea of the song, it should also be in accordance with the rest of the album. And if its a concept album , the music videos should depict the story of the album.

So, inside my head, Taylor Swift Videos from Speak Now win from LP's videos from A Thousand Suns.

But as far as the songs go, the two are still competing, also considering the Speak Now hasn't released yet.

-mystic

LP's new MV

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So, the new LP MV came out and it's like a sequel to the Catalyst MV. The Catalyst was smoky grey-green and this is starry blue. I just couldn't see the greatness or difference from, well, other MVs. But then, I guess, we all know how quickly my opnion might turn positive.

-mystic

LP's Suns' Concept

All right, so five minutes after the previous post, I find this article on MTV. So apparently, there is no definite story in the album.

This is what Mike Shinoda is saying (after reading which I think that the whole concept-less concept album doesn't bug me so much):

"People asked us if it's a concept record, and in the middle of the process, we were contemplating whether or not that was what we wanted to do. And I think, as we finished it, it became clear that, usually the problem with concept records is, like, [the] term usually refers to things like [the Who's] Tommy or ... rock operas and stuff like than that has a narrative. And this doesn't have a narrative; it's more abstract that that. "

A Thousand Suns II

All right, so I am not a musical genius, but i did realise that Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns is a concept album. I have heard like two-three times by now, and frankly, where is the story?

I mean, out of the 15 tracks, I hav even started liking some more that I did the first time, but I can't figure out the concept of the album.

Its just this thing they are singing and A thousand Suns, I think, failed achieve the depth it could have. Just a bit of modifications, and this album could really have done well for me.

Anyways, I still think 'Wretches and Kings' is the best track so far.

-mystic

A Thousand Suns

Linkin Park's new album A Thousand Suns was released on September 14 and I was in high hopes that day about how great it was going to be and everything but now there is just one thing that keeps coming to mind.

I finally heard the album today and it completely stripped of Linkin park-ness. Hybrid Theory and Meteora but both amazing, Minutes to Midnights was still entertaining, but this album really did it.

It has like 15 songs out of which I think 3 are just famous-people-quotes, the opening song (The Requiem) Was Something like what Green Day did to 21st Century Breakdown's Song of the Century, but they (Green Day) did it much better. Even the lyrical style was different. Linkin Park was all about life and human perception (that's how i see it), but this album has just a hint of it with political and social opinions being more prominent. Frankly, I don't mind it one bit, if they would have done it in the same style.

Most of the songs simply didn't make it to the bar I had set. I think Wretches and Kings was the one song i actually liked, but the rest kinda hung between nu metal and rock. That Linkin Park thing was missing.

All in all, it was a big disappointment. Though the cover really got me. One word for it: Beau.ti.ful. Love the way its done and and the title interpreted.

Rating - 2.5/5

-mystic