Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has shut down the idea of a hologram Chester Bennington performance saying it would be ‘creepy’.
In recent years, with advances in technology, numerous artists have been turned into holograms and we’ve seen ‘on-stage’ performances from late music legends including Tupac Shakur and Amy Winehouse.
However, Linkin Park’s co-founder Shinoda has made it crystal clear that there won’t be any such a performance featuring his late bandmate and friend Bennington, who died by suicide in 2017.
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During an interview with radio show The Buzz, Shinoda was told by the host that she would pay ‘good money’ to see a holographic performance of Bennington, to which he replied: “Those are creepy. Even if we weren’t talking about [Linkin Park], if we weren’t talking about Chester, which is… that’s a very sensitive subject, and we would have our feelings about how we would represent that. For me, that’s a clear no. I’m not into that.”
Referencing a recent holographic tour by Swedish pop act ABBA, Shinoda went on: “They’re all still here, and yet they wanna do it this way because they wanna transport you back to that moment in time where those songs were new and it was whatever era it was.
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“I get that. I see that. I’m not positive, even under those circumstances, I’m not positive I personally would buy a ticket to the show.”
Although he acknowledged that fans may want such a show to happen, he was quick to shut down the idea saying ‘the problem with the internet now is that everybody thinks that everything is for everybody’.
“What I mean is everyone feels like they need to chime in, like, ‘Well, here’s my opinion. This is what I have to say. And if it’s not for me, like if I don’t like it, then nobody should like it’,” he said.
“That’s not the way the world works… if you like a thing and I don’t like the thing, then you go see the thing, you go buy the thing. So please go see your thing. The only problem with that is, we’re not going to do a hologram show.”
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Claire Reid