Jaime Bennington, son of the late Chester Bennington, slams Mike Shinoda and Linkin Park

[varioussaints]

Jaime Bennington, the son of former Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington, has criticized the band’s decision to bring in Emily Armstrong as their new vocalist.

Jaime wrote that Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda had “quietly erased my father’s life and legacy in real… pic.twitter.com/jRsef6UDfO
- Variety (@Variety) September 9, 2024
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[nigelwitthebrie]

Good🔥🔥🔥🔥

i hope this means Linkin Park will feel the heat and kick her out.

[howthedaysounds]

I think the damage is done at this point. Whether they kick her out or not, Mike/the band/their management/whoever else have shown that they don't actually care about doing the right thing or they wouldn't have hired her from the start.

[for_serious13]

Oh they’re digging in their heels, in a new lp post on instagram mike commented about showing Emily love

They’re gonna try to ride it out

[belintuchiha]

No one is taking this seriously cause Jamie has been outcasted(? From his family. Chester’s wife and other children support Emily.

[skyler_white_yo]

Good for him. This is a complete disregard for his father’s career and legacy.

Why didn’t Mike just start a new band with a different name.

[sentinelsoul]

Because no one would care about it then. He'd rather shit on LP and Chester's legacy to get some attention.

[for_serious13]

He tried that already with fort minor and it didn’t do as well as he wanted

[anolinde]

TIL that Fort Minor was an LP project... I loved that one song!

[genbu_no_miko24]

What's that part about "no acknowledgment on he grooms his fanbase".

It wasn't till the last post that I heard that Chester had been csa survivor which is somewhat clueless on my part cause I always did notice lyrics reflected but I had heard concrete statements but I didn't follow the band outside of their singles.

I wonder if they'll replace or stick their heels in the mud for her?

I feel for Jamie and having to go through this but good on him.

[nalaa1906]

He's been slamming Mike, Linkin Park and Talinda (Chester's wife) since Chester died, saying some really wild things (Mike and Talinda had an affair, Chester was murdered etc etc). Talinda has a restraining order against him. But grief is horrible and complicated so there's that.
My feelings are the last thing that matter here but this whole thing just makes me sad. Linkin Park was such a huge part of my life. I hate this.

[senshi_forever]

Hearing he's been spreading conspiracies is disheartening. I guess that explains why Mike and his wife Anna seemed to have blocked him.

[nalaa1906]

Yeah his instagram bio is "My father Chester Bennington did not die the way they said he did" :/
When Chester died there were a lot of conspiracy theories (same thing happened with Avicii and tWitch, and it's still going around) and it's sad because I feel like this just encourages people to keep spreading them.

[kebedes]

Yeah, I don't pay attention to their kids (I'm not interested in their personal lives) but I came across some wild accusation he made a while back and ended up going to his IG where I saw that he had like a 3-hour video ranting about Talinda, his inheritance and who knows what else. I didn't watch all of it obvs but that was my exposure to his, uh, state of mind.

[choukoumei]

I loved Linkin Park but the band doesn’t exist to me now. Chester gave us some great music and his memory should always be respected.