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The hard-rocking band Limp Bizkit have managed to piss off just about everyone on their road to stardom and the top of the music ladder. Off all marquee bands currently “ruling" the musical world, perhaps none defy the traditional path more than the headline-grabbing band. From a chaotic live show to explicit lyrics to well-placed controversial comments in the press, Limp Bizkit have created a unique brand of music that has touched a nerve with the mainstream and attracted hordes of young fans in the process.
What differentiates Limp Bizkit from the dozens of other angst-ridden guitar-pounding alt/rock/metal bands is that their music is actually good. Critics may decry their lyrics as childless, pointless and unduly rough, but their music offers a head-thrashing hypnotic quality that many other similar bands lack. Case in point: the first song of the band’s latest release, 2000’s chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water. The song, besides the fact that it references the word f**k fifty-plus times, is actually undeniably catchy. “Hotdog", is one of the better heavy songs of recent years, to be bold, a suggestion that many in the mainstream media would only laugh at. It precedes other gems such as the melodic “The One", the fist-shaking “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)" and the monster hit “My Generation".
“My Generation" sums of the rage of the album and of the young counter-culture which has been not-so-quietly brewing over the past ten years. Parents, take heed - this is not the music of your childhood – and this is actually the point Limp Bizkit is trying todrive home. The chorus of “My Generation" screams “…so go ahead and talk shit about me go ahead and talk shit about my generation cause we don’t, don’t give a fuck and we won’t ever give a fuck until you, you give a fuck about me and my generation".
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This chorus, as harsh as it, represents much of the frustration youth feel about the governing generation. Limp Bizkit provides a voice to the multitude of the masses who are, for the most part, preached to and generally talked down to.
Every generation has a voice. Sixtie’s kids defied the establishment by listening to the free-loving grooves of the Beatles and the Stones. The Seventies saw kids rock out to a new wave of harder artists such as Lep Zepplin and The Who. The Eighties, as musically depressed as they were, saw the rise of Guns & Roses and hair-defying Heavy Metal. The Nineties were defined by angst, initially by a slew of grunge bands (Pearl Jam, Nirvana), and later by punk-metal bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit. Many adults fail to realize that the current voice will pass to a new one, and so will the torch that Limp Bizkit currently holds, which the band freely admits. At a recent press conference lead singer Fred Durst stated that his band was merely part of a fad, one which would eventually fade away. He realizes, which many others fail to do, that as much as he enjoys the current success and stardom that he holds, it will not last forever. Parents, take this as a note, and don’t lose yourselves in the paranoia that your child is “corrupt" by listening to Limp Bizkit. It’s just music folks, and it's not going to corrupt your children anymore, or less for that matter, than your own parenting skills...
By Erin Boyle, CanEHdian.com 2000
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