“This is not really Mike. This is an AI duplicate. Mike is on vacation.” The voice at the end of the line is so authentically dispassionate that for a moment it seems we might have actually got through to a synthetic Shinoda. Thankfully, we have in fact reached the man himself, at home in his native Los Angeles, and he’s pulling K!’s leg. But who could blame the 46-year-old for employing a stand-in, given his workload? Just recently, Mike co-wrote and produced the preposterously catchy Demi Lovato track Still Alive for the soundtrack to Scream VI, the latest meta instalment in the horror franchise. The film also features new music from Mike himself, In My Head, a duet with Arizona-born singer-songwriter Kailee Morgue. The latter being a big step after a&n...
