Chester Bennington Born in Phoenix, Arizona, to working class parents, Bennington’s life was marked by early childhood trauma, abuse and subsequent battles with serious drug and alcohol abuse. Still, as his career as Linkin Park’s frontman launched to incredible heights, his love for the Hispanic community he called home never faded.
For a particular sort of Latinx emo kid coming of age in the early naughts, Linkin Park was a refuge.
Older siblings had Morrissey, a beloved emo-ballad-slinging favorite of depressed Mexican-Americans. A younger generation had Linkin Park and, to a greater extent, Chester Bennington. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where this relationship comes from, but it’s probably best to begin at the beginning.
While by today's standards that sentiment may not seem particularly woke, at the time, this sort of acknowledgement coming from a hotbed of racism like Arizona felt genuine. And Mexican-Americans hold a good spot for him, too. Where Latin metal bands like Sepultura, Soulfly and even Pantera paved a path for metal to cross the cultural divide in the 1990s, Linkin Park’s entry onto the scene in the pop-heavy MTV era of the early 2000s was a direct path to the genre for a hungry generation of culturally conflicted Latinx Millennials.
It’s a unique position to be in as a adolescent, at an often painful intersection of cultures, neither here nor there, constructing a complex racial and social identity in America, all while growing into adulthood. Linkin Park provided a space for exploration of those tensions, and in many ways mirrored the experience.
The nü-metal group blended metal roots and pop-rock references to provide an outlet for raw anger and sadness, while their collaborational albums with rappers of notoriety made it “acceptable” for emo-hood-kid consumption. Linkin Park's 2003 effort Reanimation was their first remix album and featured many underground hip hop artists, giving them a wider audience, while their 2004 collaboration with Jay Z, Collision Course, was met with praise. At the time, K.B. Tindal of HipHopDX said, “This is a project that will open a passageway for artists who want to dare to be different as well as those who want to work hard to maintain that difference."
Mexican/Asian-American esports writer Josh Calixto's introduction to the group wasn’t even in this country. “The first Linkin Park song I ever heard was 'Crawling,' and it was in Mexico that I first heard it," he said. "It was one of like, 20 music videos that they played on repeat.”
In light of news breaking on Thursday of Bennington’s death by suicide, many took to Twitter to express these sorts of memories, bringing to light the strange dichotomy that their fandom represented.
Older siblings had Morrissey, a beloved emo-ballad-slinging favorite of depressed Mexican-Americans. A younger generation had Linkin Park and, to a greater extent, Chester Bennington. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where this relationship comes from, but it’s probably best to begin at the beginning.
While by today's standards that sentiment may not seem particularly woke, at the time, this sort of acknowledgement coming from a hotbed of racism like Arizona felt genuine. And Mexican-Americans hold a good spot for him, too. Where Latin metal bands like Sepultura, Soulfly and even Pantera paved a path for metal to cross the cultural divide in the 1990s, Linkin Park’s entry onto the scene in the pop-heavy MTV era of the early 2000s was a direct path to the genre for a hungry generation of culturally conflicted Latinx Millennials.
It’s a unique position to be in as a adolescent, at an often painful intersection of cultures, neither here nor there, constructing a complex racial and social identity in America, all while growing into adulthood. Linkin Park provided a space for exploration of those tensions, and in many ways mirrored the experience.
The nü-metal group blended metal roots and pop-rock references to provide an outlet for raw anger and sadness, while their collaborational albums with rappers of notoriety made it “acceptable” for emo-hood-kid consumption. Linkin Park's 2003 effort Reanimation was their first remix album and featured many underground hip hop artists, giving them a wider audience, while their 2004 collaboration with Jay Z, Collision Course, was met with praise. At the time, K.B. Tindal of HipHopDX said, “This is a project that will open a passageway for artists who want to dare to be different as well as those who want to work hard to maintain that difference."
Mexican/Asian-American esports writer Josh Calixto's introduction to the group wasn’t even in this country. “The first Linkin Park song I ever heard was 'Crawling,' and it was in Mexico that I first heard it," he said. "It was one of like, 20 music videos that they played on repeat.”
In light of news breaking on Thursday of Bennington’s death by suicide, many took to Twitter to express these sorts of memories, bringing to light the strange dichotomy that their fandom represented.
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