Originally Posted by
Dryalex12
It really has been 3 years huh? It's been really weird since my feelings about One More Light have drastically changed as the years went on. When it first came out, I was very in different about it, but compared to how you all completely roasted it, it seemed like i was the only one who liked it. Honestly, i think some of you guys took it too far since it got to the point where you insulting Mike and the others and yeah, I know at the time, It looked like Chester was going down the rabbit hole with his attitude, but, as we learned in hindsight, it looked like he was venting and loosing his battle with Depression. Looking at some of the comments way back when the OML came out, almost all of them didn't sit well with me, not because you all didn't like the album, that's fine, but some of the criticisms didn't make any sense at all. I think one of you guys said the lyrics were completely meaningless, which is 100% false. The album is a lot darker than you'd think, mostly with the songs that Chester wrote. In fact, i'll even show what Chester said about one of the songs he wrote, Halfway Right
“I was strung out on some really fucking heavy drugs and I was really young and I was driving my car and I blacked out. I woke up driving in a field, down a dirt road, in the middle of a farm. I didn’t know how I got there. It was crazy. I was remembering this constant fucking battle I have with myself, this constant cycle I couldn’t see at that time where these choices and these behaviours and where this journey would take me in my life. But when I was a guy in my 20s getting out of it, I didn’t realise I’d have these problems for my whole life. I didn’t think I’d be in one of the biggest bands in the world with a beautiful family at 41 going ‘Fuck, I could have easily have blacked out driving my car again two months ago’. It’s a dark song, it’s a reality check for me. The chorus is the insanity of my situation — ‘I scream at myself when there’s nobody else to fight”. It’s fucking crazy"
But yeah its weird, i learned that all the stems for this album had leaked, and i was very curious about how everything sounded when it wasn't over compressed since I am an audiophile. I ended up finding a HELL of a lot more guitar parts then the album actually had or you could hear, as well as some vocal harmonizes that are mixed so low it was like, what was the damn point of even adding them? I think there was like 12 guitar parts on some of the songs.
So when i was making my mix of the album, i dunno but, i started to like it more and more. I don't know what it was, but after a while, i started randomly singing some of the songs while i was doing the dishes. Compared to The Hunting Party where NONE of the songs stuck in my head and was a very hookless album imo and its still my least fave album. But yeah OML, i dunno what happen, but i ended up loving a lot of the songs....(except for Sorry for Now, FUCK THAT SONG) and, i don't know if you saw this in the controversial music opinions but, I had posted my Linkin Park tier list and OML was in the same place that Hybrid Theory was...a B and i still feel that way right now.
I wish Chester was still here with us and i still miss him to this day.
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