i recently read PluggedinOnline's review of Linkin Park's new single, The Catalyst and its music video, so i listened to the song and watched the video on youtube and here is my unsolicited commentary on both the song/video and pluggedin's review.
About the band's upcoming album and this song's music video, guitarist/vocalist Mike Shinoda said, "It kind of comes from the idea of, like, if you could imagine when nuclear fission was invented, or a moment in time when something can be used for positive or negative. Something can be beautiful or it can be destructive. Or even, you know, if you've ever seen a dangerous fire from far away, it's devastating up close, but from far away, it can be beautiful. Those are the kind of themes that run throughout the album, and they're also themes that you see in the video."
Pluggedin's reaction was: "You do? Where are the beautiful things? The contrast Shinoda mentions just isn't there. Instead, "The Catalyst" depicts only horrific judgment—and it's not even close to pretty."
i strongly disagree. the concept of apocalypse is hopeful in a twisted kind of way. it's hopeful because it's the self-destruction of all of the nonsense of our society's consumerism, twisted politics, and international jibber-jabbering that never seems to amount to anything. in the apocalypse, all that nonsense will be destroyed and those who survive--if anyone does--will have a fresh new start.
this probably explains the recent spate of post-apocalyptic things going on in popular culture, books and movies like The Road, The Book of Eli, all the zombie-apocalypse movies, and games like Fallout.
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