Claude says:Linkin Park's seventh album arrived in May 2017 as their most pop-focused record yet, built on production sessions between 2015 and 2017 with outside writers like Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter — a creative pivot that drew mixed reviews and accusations of selling out before Chester Bennington's death two months later made it unbearably final. You skipped it entirely on release (one stray play aside), only circling back seven years later in May 2024 when the grief had settled enough to actually hear it. "Sharp Edges" and the Kiiara duet "Heavy" became your anchors through that short, intense summer chapter before you moved on again.