Rolling Stone Talks to Linkin Park About Their New Album, Tour With My Chemical Romance

Linkin Park stopped by the Rolling Stone offices for lunch on Friday to talk about their new album, Minutes to Midnight, which drops tomorrow.

Linkin Park frontmen Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda also held a press conference last Monday at the Museum of Television and Radio to announce their Projekt Revolution tour line-up, which includes My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday and Placebo, among others. After the press conference we chatted with Shinoda, Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance and Matt Rubano from Taking Back Sunday about Projekt Revolution fans becoming one big happy family.

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Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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