In today’s “Rap-Pop” dominated culture, rock music is not as big in the music industry like it was back in 70s and 80s. Personally, I cannot stand turning on the radio and hearing the same Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Drake, or any of the big pop stars’/rappers’ songs over and over and over.

It’s all the same. In the case of pop music, it’s synthetic (very electronic and in other words, not actual instruments like guitars, drums, bass.) beats with lyrics that would appeal to a teenage girl who is “heart-broken” over the fact her boyfriend broke up with her.

Rap isn’t much different either except Rap, a majority of the time, tries to make it seem like the ultimate goal in life is getting money, shooting up drugs, and having sex with a lot of woman. Great example, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines.

How it managed to become the hit song of 2013 is beyond me.

So on the less explored side of today’s music, my favorite band, Linkin Park, recently released a new song with Steve Aoki, a electronic house music DJ, entitled “A Light That Never Comes” (Which contains mainly dubstep-electronic elements.) is the lead single to their upcoming album ‘Recharged,” a remix album of their last record release.

Linkin Park has been making this odd transition from their old “Hard Rock” style to something a bit more, new age. Same goes for their music videos. I have really only been disappointed with a total of four of their songs and surprisingly, despite how their new sound is more around the boundaries of house music, I actually have taken a liking into the new single.

The song, like a lot of Linkin Park songs, has lyrics that are centered around anger which are accompanied the usual “wub wub” of dubstep beats. I will say, out of all of the electro artist I’ve heard, Aoki does a rather fine job of making the vocals and beats blend in together.

Mike Shinoda, the secondary singer to Linkin Park, sings about him feeling betrayed and used (or at least, that’s what I got from it.) while Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park, has a strong, upbeat chorus.

The music video follows the direction of their last videos, excessive usage of CGI. Unlike one of their last music videos containing this tool, it has amazing graphics such as a holographic recreation of a sprawling city with what appears to be riots in the street with many Japanese statues decorating the holographics, while the band encircles the city doing their parts in the music, particularly Shinoda and Bennington singing their lines.

While the song would definitely fall under the category or electro house or dubstep, I like it. It’s upbeat, almost dance like sound could make it a good player in modern day radio. Linkin Park is shifting to a new sound that may appeal to the new audience, I can’t quite say I’ve ever hated a song, just not like it.