A Thousand Suns è stato ufficialmente annunciato dai Linkin Park attraverso un comunicato pubblicato l'8 luglio 2010, nel quale è stato annunciato anche il singolo apripista dell'album, The Catalyst.[1] Per quest'ultimo, il gruppo ha lanciato attraverso Myspace il concorso "Linkin Park, Featuring You", durato dal 9 al 25 luglio e nel quale i fan hanno potuto scaricare e remixare parti del brano.[1] Il vincitore è stato il polacco Czeslaw "NoBraiN" Sakowski,[46] il cui remix è stato inserito come traccia multimediale in alcune edizioni dell'album,[47] oltreché come singolo digitale nell'iTunes Store giapponese.[48] Sakowski ha inoltre contribuito all'album con della programmazione aggiuntiva nel finale di When They Come for Me.[30] Gli altri venti remix selezionati dal gruppo sono stati inizialmente considerati per un futuro utilizzo come b-side o download online:[46] due di questi (ad opera di DIGITALOMAT e di ill Audio) sono stati pubblicati per il download gratuito sul sito dei Linkin Park,[49] altri due (realizzati da DJ Endorphin e Cale Pellick) sono stati inseriti nella seconda versione digitale di The Catalyst,[50] mentre il remix di Keaton Hashimoto è stato inserito in Download to Donate for Haiti V2.0. Per The Catalyst è stato inoltre realizzato un video musicale, diretto dal DJ del gruppo, Joe Hahn, e pubblicato il 26 agosto 2010.[51] Il 2 settembre è stato reso disponibile per il download digitale il brano Wretches and Kings a tutti coloro che hanno preordinato l'album attraverso il sto ufficiale del gruppo,[52] mentre sei giorni più tardi sono stati resi disponibili in streaming i brani Waiting for the End e Blackout attraverso Myspace.[53]
A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album from Linkin Park. It was released in the US September 14th, 2010 as a follow up to their highly successive third album, Minutes To Midnight released in 2007. The album is once again co-produced by Rick Rubin and Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda. The album breaks the mould of every other studio album from Linkin Park, by being the first to contain a total of 15 tracks, the highest yet on a studio effort, excluding remix album, Reanimation. The debut single from the album, The Catalyst was released August 2nd 2010 worldwide, and immediately brought ATS into the top 10 pre-order ranks on many countries iTunes lists. The Catalyst leads a change of direction for the band with this album, marking the first time the band have been making music "from a pure place" reciting "it doesn't matter what it sounds like, if we like it, then it's Linkin Park". The album has been tipped as an evolution for the band, taking more chances than ever. This was most noticeable in the albums promotion, in which the band used a series of puzzles they referred to as "messages" in which fans of the band had to take on a series of ambiguous tasks to reveal the single and album name amongst other things. The changes are also apparent within the artwork, opting for a series of unconventional promo shots and album art, which the band describe as a coexisting entity with the music which will take the listener on a "journey". The album cover was the biggest statement of all, as it is a deeply simplistic design that contains no name or text what so ever, provoking a reaction and numerous questions. The sound of the album has been touted as a progressive mix of electronic elements incorporated into their already established sound to create something fresh and exciting. The band wanted to go back to the mentality they had creating their debut effort, Hybrid Theory, in that they wanted to do something original, new and "genre-busting". This has already began to show with the unconventional 5:42 lead single, The Catalyst which incorporates synth work over a textured guitar which progressively builds throughout to a climactic end. A Thousand Suns is released 14 September as a standard CD, Special CD / DVD Limited Edition set which features "Meeting of A Thousand Suns" making-of feature, and also as Deluxe Edition Box Set on linkinpark.com, which includes the LP Vinyl version too. It is available as clean and explicit.
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LPTV episodes began to air on YouTube and on the Linkin Park Media Player on linkinpark.com featuring Chester Bennington recording vocals for "The Catalyst". A later LPTV episode showed Mike Shinoda informing NoBraiN as the winner of the "Linkin Park: Featuring You" contest. On linkinpark.com, as a ploy to add more people to their emailing list, two "Linkin Park: Featuring You" finalist entry remixes were offered in exchange for an email address. The two remixes were remixed by illAudio and Digitalomat.
"Wretches and Kings" was released to anyone who had pre-ordered A Thousand Suns via linkinpark.com on September 2, a month after the release of "The Catalyst". Additionally, the general public could stream the song on Noisecreep.
Keywords : semantics, connotative meaning, song lyrics, Linkin Park and A Thousand Suns album Language is a fundamental device used by people to communicate. A sentence or an utterance in which people use to express their feelings and thoughts is generally containing either literal meaning or non-literal meaning. One kind of non-literal meaning is connotative meaning which is subjective and not perceived the same way by the speakers of a language. This research focuses on analysing the connotative meaning contained in Linkin Park's song lyrics by using Leech's theory (1990). This research is aimed to show the interpretation of the connotations found in the song lyrics, the messages of the songs, and the contribution of the connotations to the messages. The problems of the study are (1) what are the expressions containing connotative meanings in the song lyrics of Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns album, (2) what are the messages of the songs in Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns album, and (3) how do the connotations contribute to the messages conveyed in the songs. This research used qualitative approach because the data are in the form of song lyrics. Documentary analysis was applied to find out the connotative meaning contained in the song lyrics, the messages, and the contribution of the connotations to the messages of the songs. The researcher collected the data by downloading the songs and the lyrics, reading the song lyrics, and making a list of the expressions that contain connotative meaning. Then the researcher analyzed the data by identifying the connotative meanings, figuring out the messages, and correlating the contribution of the connotations to the messages. The result of the research shows that there are 46 utterances containing connotative meanings in the song lyrics. The connotative meaning found is carried within words, phrases, and also sentences. The messages conveyed in the songs are mostly motivating and persuasive. The connotations used in the song lyrics are to portray images and build certain atmospheres. The connotations found in the song lyrics play an important role in creating particular senses and delivering the messages.The researcher suggests the next researchers conduct a research in semantics field by using different object of the study such as Indonesian songs. Also, different theory may be used as well in order to get more understanding about connotative meaning. 2ff7e9595c
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