Thread:Thunder the Coyote/@comment-26381576-20180901232238/@comment-5688420-20180907102056

Loconator3000 wrote: Now, as I asked regarding cliches yesterday... To be honest with you... I honestly think EW has more cliches than original tropes (hell, the title istelf is cliche), but I do admit that it pulls of these cliches really well most of the time. Besides, some works have made their mark in pop culture despite being largely cliche. It all depends on how they pull of those cliches.

Take Linkin Park, for instance. Their style of nu metal is far from original (it's mostly a 50-50 split of Korn's angsty lyrics and Limp Bizkit's hip-hop flavored rap metal style) but what made them so big and popular was how well they pulled off those cliches. Chester's lyrics speak right through you soul, it's almost eerie. And the 50-50 balance between rock/metal and hip-hop in their sound makes for a sound that appeals to both rockers and hip-hop heads.