{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Linkin Park Changed the Sound of Male Angst - The Atlantic", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/175702919688/", "html": "<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/linkin-park-chester-bennington/561713/\">Linkin Park Changed the Sound of Male Angst - The Atlantic</a>\n<p>Man, of <em>course</em> someone would eventually try to reevaluate n\u00fc-metal positively, and of <em>course</em> in 2018 they wouldn\u2019t even bother to claim that the music was any good, just this therapeutic crap that the audience was <em>suffering</em> and thus whatever bs they go for is valid</p><p>\nAah, I\u2019m sure someone was projecting serious problems onto these aggressively vague sludge-dirges, but I remember it was more \u201cmy stepdad just doesn\u2019t understand that I\u2019m not cut out for community college\u201d. Meanwhile \u201880s rockers put out fun, memorable party songs about like \u201c<a href=\"denied:%E2%80%9Chttp://ultimateclassicrock.com/guns-n-roses-sweet-child-o-mine/%E2%80%9C\" target=\"_blank\">the only respite from my self-destructive addictions is the single human connection I finally made now that I\u2019ve met someone else who is also escaping an abusive childhood</a>\u201d </p>"}