Emily Armstrong on Singing Linkin Park's Biggest Hits (CRAWLING)

Emily when Mike first tells you you guys are going to do live shows like where do you start like do you just dive into the catalog or ask Mike for a set list like how do you where do you begin um it's a good question he definitely had like a this is what we usually do live you know these are the ones that go very well and it's like a very long list so I didn't really have to have something exact you know I was just like well it got to get started you know like

this is going to be a lot like Colin and I were you know practicing months before you know like in his studio and just going over going over and like just trying to get these songs to feel like mine you know and some of them were a lot harder to do because like the older ones were harder even though I knew the L like when the song starts like I know how to sing it it was harder because there's layers to it where it's like years I don't know why mental mental yeah and it's like

there's so much more to uncover with the song to like really get to like okay it's meant so much to me and it's meant so much it's like solidified in like we're talking about the universe it's like it's solidified in the universe so now I have to somehow crack that and make that something that's relatable to me and to you as a listener was that like so it's a lot more layers like numb for example is probably one of them right in the end in the end yeah you know and you can't even think about

it crawling yeah well crawling was funny cuz crawling was one of the okay but she says that but like we were playing around with these like just what ifs and we and we played an AC it was acoustic guitar and Emily singing crawling in my studio that just sat down like what about this and she like what key do we find do we sing it in she sat there and just like belted it out one time I was like yep that's the song like that sounds awesome and what was great about it is you know

for some people the fact that it sounds different they don't like that they're not they're not comfortable with that I I say yet because I think the more they get like a little bit of exposure to it some of them are going to come around and be like oh actually I get it now right but but for me I was already I already am like accustomed to her voice and I was ready to hear that and when she Sayang it I went what I love about this is it sounds like the song it doesn't it

doesn't sound like Chester singing the song it just sounds like the song it sounds great so I was so like it's the emotion in it it's the emotion that's the part she needed to connect I had to with that's what anybody's going to connect to because when they hear that song it is the emotion obviously his voice is incredible and you know it does other things but like it's the emotion side of it that I had to and it was easier for me for the emotion side because that album like we talked about was help

huge for me the way you sing yes and how I wanted to emote as a singer you know and so just like what he was saying it's it's getting that like the layers you know like everybody's so used to hearing it a certain way as well that's like one of the layers you know and so having all that time with Colin and you know cuz he's a great producer so he was able to help me in ways that I didn't even realize you see what I mean so it's like so many of these Great Moments

where we just like oh my God we needed each other you know and how it just like really came together like with the band like it's like one of those things again like where it's just all fell into place so beautifully it's really wild yeah