The First Reaction To Linkin Park’s New Track, She Couldn’t

Alongside the 20th anniversary anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory, which Linkin Park revealed earlier today, the band have also unveiled the 1999 demo of their track She Couldn’t for the very first time. But has it been worth the wait and how does it stack up against some of those gargantuan anthems it was written alongside? K!’s Nick Ruskell takes a look… It’s very Hybrid Theory, isn’t it? Well, obviously, given that She Couldn’t is a song taken from the recording sessions from that album. But despite its softness and lack of the heavy guitars of One Step Closer or Crawling, despite its length and willingness to run at its own pace, rather than the no-second-wasted efficiency of the rest of that album, you could slot this anywhere in the album’s second half and it...