Nandi Bushell shreds on new cover of Linkin Park’s “Numb”–watch
The ridiculously talented multi-instrumentalist Nandi Bushell has added a performance of Linkin Park’s “Numb” to her catalog of badass covers. The Twitter video features the 11-year-old shredding the drums with the same characteristic gusto that has made her an internet sensation. The young drummer was highly appreciative of the band but especially gave praise to […]
The ridiculously talented multi-instrumentalist Nandi Bushell has added a performance of Linkin Park’s“Numb” to her catalog of badass covers. The Twitter video features the 11-year-old shredding the drums with the same characteristic gusto that has made her an internet sensation.
The young drummer was highly appreciative of the band but especially gave praise to the power behind the late Chester Bennington’s voice. Bushell says she only just discovered Linkin Park and subsequently nü metal. If she’s like the rest of us, it was probably a rather transformative experience.
“I discovered @linkinpark [last] week!,” Bushell wrote in a June 12 tweet. “So many great songs! So this is #numetal! I like the keyboards and DJ scratching. #chesterbennington had such an incredible voice. He sang with real #power.”
Like the rest of us, Linkin Park realized the video kicked ass. “Wow, this is awesome,” the band responded in a Tweet.
The extraordinarily uplifting exchange ended with Bushell responding the way anyone would after receiving praise from one of the most formative nü-metal groups of all time.
“Yes! Wow!” Bushell responded in a tweet. “This is amazing!!! Thank you so much! Your music is so so so good!”
Plenty of attention has been on Linkin Park lately. Bushell’s “Numb” cover was released on Record Store Day, the same day the group issued a repress of their 2004 genre-defining album Meteora. They hit another milestone in early June when “In The End” became the first song in the genre to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify, according to Chart Data.
In case her deep affinity for all forms of rock isn’t enough, Bushell also plays other genres with confidence. She released a cover of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” in May 2021. For the cover, the artist played every instrument on the song, including the saxophone. According to Bushell, she had only been playing the saxophone for three weeks at the time the video was released.
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