As an awkward teen desperately trying to figure out who I was in a scary and confusing world, Linkin Park made being weird cool.
When Linkin Park's first full length album Hybrid Theory dropped in October of 2000, I just entered the seventh grade in a new junior high school. I was 13-years-old, and desperately trying to distance myself from the jocks and preps, while simultaneously trying to gain the approval of the skaters and weirdos.
Entering this new school, it became clear that things were different. Everyone hung out in segregated groups. There were clicks, and kids called each other preppy as a diss. Lines were drawn in the sand, and a full-blown social war was ignited, fueled by raging hormones and awkward social interactions. Read more...
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