And I remember Chester walked in and it was, “Hey, how are you doing today?” and he’s like, “OH, I’m fine,” and we were hanging out for a minutes and he was like, “Y’know what? I have to be honest. When we wrote this one it was me and Brad (Delson) and Chester (Bennington) from the band and Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels. So what was the discussion that led to “Heavy?” I know I’ve got a strong song, a strong foundation and then it’s just icing to put on top of it. And the soundmaking is actually one of the most fun parts for me, so then it’s like icing on the cake. It builds a wonderful foundation to put everything else on top of. In this case we actually flipped that around and the very first thing we’d do each day is we’d get into the studio and say, “What’s on my mind? What do I want to sing about and write about” and that defined a whole different kind of writing. Historically for us the (instrumental) track usually comes first, like we’ll make a body of music and the music will inspire the lyrics. The thing that really drove this album was we kind of flipped our writing process backwards. You mentioned collaborating with other writers this time around… So we wanted to go out with a song like that, where everybody can get a sense of the direction of this body of work. This wasn’t a scenario where the whole album sounds one way and the single sounds different. As well as it being fun, he also said it’s a bit of an outlier on the album and stands out a lot from the rest of the songs. He mentioned that it’s the most hip-hop track on the album and has a sense of humor to it. One of the reasons why we chose “Heavy” as the first single is because it is really the core sound of the album. Before they left, I spoke to Mike about Good Goodbye, the second track on One More Light featuring Stormzy and Pusha T. Almost a year and a half later, this is the first taste of what that sounds like. I don’t know that those are the words I’d use, but we did think what would it be like, first of all, to write with people outside the band, to approach things with our arms wide open, wrapped around a larger audience and still make it 100 percent Linkin Park and true to what we do. There’s a very mainstream, pop-friendly aspect to “Heavy” that might surprise some fans? Linkin Park fans know that with every album you never know what you’re going to get, and the style can change dramatically and different elements, different genres that we listen to might sit more in the forefront than others. We’ve always been about mixing styles I mean, Hybrid Theory was the name of our band before we changed it to Linkin Park. We want to explore new territory with the sounds and the songwriting. The band, with every album, every song we’re trying to challenge ourselves. “Heavy” is a different sound for Linkin Park.
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