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Linkin Park is one of, if not, the most impacting influences on me as an artist. From the influences of Chester Bennington as a vocalist and Mike Shinoda as a composer and a producer, to having a unique genre-less sound as did many prominent "nu-metal" bands.

Being a 2000's kid, I was raised wholly under their influence first becoming a major fan of their works with their song "What I've Done" from their third album Minutes to Midnight which featured in the 2007 Transformers feature film directed by Michael Bay.

During my teen years, their cds played on repeat whether it was me hijacking the radio in the car on the way to school to blasting them through my little stereo player in bedroom whenever I was a home.

Linkin Park is the beginning of my path as an artist across every mean that I am capable. Every aspect of them as band has one way or another influenced me in my creative style, which all started with the end scene of the Transformers film when "What I've Done" played during Optimus Prime's closing monologue (Bay, 2007, 2.14.00).

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George Miller has been a massive creative inspiration to me as an artist across all means, from his earlier works as Filthy Frank and Pink Guy to his current works as himself under the banner of Joji.

His creative processes have been very influential in how I work on any piece of art, whether it be film, canvas or music. In an interview with BAZAAR.com (2019), Joji talks about how when he composes or hears an instrumental, the visual concept "has to already pop in or it's not really worth exploring as a track for me."

Over the years, whenever I have approached a creative project, my planning phases have worked in a similar way, where if I cannot visualise what I am trying to convey, the current iteration of a work would get scrapped and I would start over again.

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In the interview with BAZAAR.com (2019), Joji talked about how he got his start in music production in middle school by working with GarageBand and recreating Lil Wayne's "A Milli" beat and how this was experience as a child helped motivate him into the production side of music.

From this experience, Joji has gone on to produce most of his own works.

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Joji said in his BAZAAR.com (2019) interview that when he was younger he listened to a heap of nu-metal which included the band Korn.

In this same interview, Miller went on to say how that the melodies and the feelings he had listening to them stuck with him even once he stopped listening to that genre of music and how that when he was writing his album Ballads 1, he came at everything he did with that hint of nu-metal.

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While he isnt a big Celine Dion fan, Joji does reference her in both his Forbes (2018) and his BAZAAR.com (2019) interviews with regards to how and why he writes ballads in this day and age.

He talks about how creatively it is easier for audiences to relate to ballads since they are typically about love and that is the one thing that everyone can relate to. He does also state that ballads don't just have to be about love and has written ballads around other topics as

well.

Joji also says it is important for our current generation to know that we can still make ballads in our current day and age and that is didn't die out with the likes of older artist such as Celine Dion.

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In an interview with Kerrang! (2023), Mike Shinoda talked about the process of comparing musical influences with Chester Bennington.

One of the bands that appeared in the overlap of the venn diagram as Shinoda discribes was Depreche Mode who he credits as teaching them about breaking away from traditional song structure.

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While much isn't directly said about the influence Limp Bizkit had on Linkin Park as artists. This is much that can be said Limp Bizkit's impact of the tragectory of Linkin Park's rise to prominence in the industry.

In an interview with SPIN magazine (2017), Fred Durst, vocalist of Limp Bizkit, reminisced about his relationship with Chester Bennington prior to his passing aswell as the last conversation the two of them had.

Durst states that Chester had thanked him and his band for paving the way for bands like Linkin Park in which Fred in turn told Chester that the genre would never had reached as many people as it did if it wasn't for him.

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During an MTV News interview (2017) rereleased after his passing, Chester Bennington, the lead vocalist for Linkin Park, spoke about the influence on his overall view of music that Nirvana had on him, from style to taste, with them being crucial in the peak of his musical inspiration, rating them within his top 10 influences on him as an artist to wanting to be in band.

Chester goes on to speak about the production level of the album Nevermind by Nirvana and its influence on him, stating that one of the shows that Nirvana was touring this album with Pearl Jam and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers was the greatest show he had ever seen.

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Hickie, J. (2023, April 5). Linkin Park: “We were out to prove this was our band and our style… That’s what Meteora became”. Kerrang!.

https://www.kerrang.com/linkin-park-meteora-mike-shinoda-brad-delson-dave-farrell-nu-metal-numb-lost-interview-cover-story

Gonzales, E. (2019, June 17). Joji Is Ready for Liftoff. Harper's Bazaar.

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a27391747/joji-interview/

Herman, T. (2018, October 26). Joji Talks 'Ballads 1' And How His Music Is Just The Start. Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarherman/2018/10/26/joji-talks-ballads-1-how-his-music-is-just-the-start/?sh=65d59b039021

MTV News. (2017, July 27). Chester Bennington on Nirvana's Influence on Him | MTV News [Video]. Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrvAYAVLZs

Gaca, A. (2017, July 25). Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Remembers Chester Bennington: “He Had a Way of Making Anyone He Spoke to Feel Heard”. SPIN.

https://www.spin.com/2017/07/limp-bizkit-fred-durst-chester-bennington-linkin-park-remembrance/

Bay, M. (Director). (2007). Transformers [Film]. Paramount Pictures.