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Today we are reviewing a song that Linkin Park released a music video for the same day that Chester Bennington died. While I’ve technically reviewed this song before when I covered the full album One More Light, there are obviously some things to talk about in light of Bennington’s suicide. I’ve seen a lot of fans say that One More Light in general is a suicide note and seen them point out specific sections in Heavy, Talking to Myself, No One Can Save Me and others that seem to confirm this; I disagree.
First of all, the allusions to depression have always been a part of Linkin Park’s music, Chester has never shied away from letting his demons out on the page. Secondly the song Talking to Myself is not about Chester’s depression but rather about him not being able to help someone else. The point of the song is that the narrator cannot get through to somebody else and help them with their struggle so the narrator feels like he’s simply talking to himself.
I can see why people now might try to tie this conversation to actually being about Chester since the title is Talking to Myself, but that isn’t how that phrase is used here. Just like other songs on the album were not suicidal but rather were Chester dealing with his issues. He has stated many times after the recording of the album that these songs helped him get to a better place and if you listen most of them have a hopeful thread throughout them. That’s why I don’t think One More Light was a stealth suicide note, I think it was an album about conquering depression.
As for this song specifically, it is the only real rock song on the album with Brad Delson having some pretty cool guitar licks in between verses and on the bridge. This would not feel out of place as a softer track on The Hunting Party, similar to Until It’s Gone. This is also one of the tracks that I liked because of Chester’s vocal delivery; love or hate One More Light but this album had some of my favorite vocal moments from Chester.
Overall this is one of the better songs to come off of One More Light, even though I find myself liking some of the poppier songs better. This one works well as a radio rock track and like everything off of one more light has some really interesting lyrics.
Album on Google Play
First of all, the allusions to depression have always been a part of Linkin Park’s music, Chester has never shied away from letting his demons out on the page. Secondly the song Talking to Myself is not about Chester’s depression but rather about him not being able to help someone else. The point of the song is that the narrator cannot get through to somebody else and help them with their struggle so the narrator feels like he’s simply talking to himself.
I can see why people now might try to tie this conversation to actually being about Chester since the title is Talking to Myself, but that isn’t how that phrase is used here. Just like other songs on the album were not suicidal but rather were Chester dealing with his issues. He has stated many times after the recording of the album that these songs helped him get to a better place and if you listen most of them have a hopeful thread throughout them. That’s why I don’t think One More Light was a stealth suicide note, I think it was an album about conquering depression.
As for this song specifically, it is the only real rock song on the album with Brad Delson having some pretty cool guitar licks in between verses and on the bridge. This would not feel out of place as a softer track on The Hunting Party, similar to Until It’s Gone. This is also one of the tracks that I liked because of Chester’s vocal delivery; love or hate One More Light but this album had some of my favorite vocal moments from Chester.
Overall this is one of the better songs to come off of One More Light, even though I find myself liking some of the poppier songs better. This one works well as a radio rock track and like everything off of one more light has some really interesting lyrics.
Album on Google Play
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