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From nu metal to pop? Fans of Linkin Park clearly aren’t happy.
The incident took place at French festival Hellfest at the weekend
Linkin Park recently played at French festival Hellfest, a firmly rock event that was headlined this year by Deep Purple and Aerosmith. Although Linkin Park used to be a nu-metal band back in the early 2000’s, their latest work, however, lean more towards on pop. When the band played Heavy, their poppiest song yet, someone threw a plastic jug at them, narrowly missing singer Chester Bennington. You can watch the incident caught on camera below.
Bennington has since taken to Twitter to say that playing at the festival was “fun” and that he had a “blast watching people mosh to ‘In The End’ and then flip me off when we played ‘Heavy'”. The frontman also said that he “blew [the crowd] kisses” by way of reply and that the individuals who threw the jug at them “smiled and gave me heart hands back”.
“They’ll be moshing to Heavy in 15 years too,” the singer added.
Hell fest was fun. Had a blast watching people mosh to In the End and then flip me off when we played Heavy. I blew them kisses?
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
However, a fan pointed out that the crowd “kinda booed at you guys and were disrespectful”. Bennington responded: “I didn’t notice. I was having too much fun playing music with my friends.”
Does anyone else find it funny that the same people calling us sellouts are suggesting that we change our set to conform to HELLFEST ?
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
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