5 STORIES
2000 · 00S
The song the internet turned into its loudest joke about teenage angst is actually Chester Bennington's clear-eyed account of addiction and …
2001 · 00S
The song the world now plays at graduations, in gyms and over sporting montages is, read closely, a song about futility — about pouring ever…
2003 · 00S
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, USA
The world files "Numb" as the ultimate teenager-versus-parent anthem, but it was written by six men in their twenties being crushed by the e…
2003 · 00S
The song that millions of teenagers heard as a cry about not fitting in was, by Mike Shinoda's own account, born from something far more mun…
2007 · 00S
It sounds like a stadium anthem about regret, but "What I've Done" is really the sound of a band firing its own formula: no rapping, no nu-m…