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FRED DURST, SENSITIVE ARTISTE

 Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 12:00pm by

Mann Village

You know what? I owe Fred Durst an apology. No, seriously. I just read his latest interview with Rolling Stone, and now I know the truth: Freddy isn’t a total douche chill. His music has just been misinterpreted all these years, co-opted by “bullies and assholes.” All he ever wanted was to make sensitive, romantic music for sensitive, romantic people. Like his heroes in The Cure.

How did it ever come to this? Let’s investigate. After the jump, check out some choice quotes from the interview, contrasted with some of Mr. Durst’s lyrics in bold.

“I got abused a lot growing up. Everything is fucked, everybody sucks. For years I looked into the crowd and saw a bunch of bullies and assholes who tortured me and ruined my life. You wanna justify rippin’ someone’s head off. They were using my music as fuel to torture other people, even dressing like me. You just lucked up, next in line to get fucked up. The music was being misinterpreted and the irony effected me and we stepped away. Shut the fuck up and back the fuck up.”

“I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. I’d eat you alive. The people in my town weren’t privy to that kind of music Where the fuck you at punk? and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst. I’ll skin your ass raw.”

“I realized after years and years that I can’t take all of that on my shoulders. So you can take that cookie and stick it up your yeah. I can just hope for the best and hope that my music finds its way to the people that I’m trying to connect with. I just might break your fucking face tonight. There’s some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. I did it all for the nookie. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it? Give me something to break, how ’bout your fucking face?”

“I don’t even listen to any type of music that’s like Limp Bizkit at all. I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. Hey you Mrs. I don’t know what the fuck your name is. I’m a romantic guy. Damn, you’re so hot.”

Gee. He’s totally right. I have no idea how anyone ever misinterpreted the meaning of Limp Bizkit’s music.

-AR

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  • ROBO CORE

    This has opened my EYES!!! ALL HAIL THE GLORY THAT IS CHOCOLATE STARFISH AND THE HOTDOG FLAVORED WATER!!!!!!!!!!

    • Uglymicrowave

      I’m glad AXL knows all the lyrics to biscuit songs

      • Sammy

        Let’s all hope Axl had to look those lyrics up.

        • o0Stacey0o

          HA, c’mon you knew some of those songs too. Let’s be honest with ourselves.

          • Sammy

            Well, Stacey, no. I *heard* those songs because I own a car with a radio and the station I listen to played too many of their songs. But then I would push the AUX button and engage the iPod. In all honesty (as opposed to partial honesty) I detested Limp Bizkit from the first song I ever laid ears upon to the last.

          • Taephit

            Hmmm, engaged the ipod eh? Sounds like you’re full of shit Sammy! Ipods didn’t exist when LB was popular.

            Just admit you listened to shitty music in the 90′s like everyone else.

        • Sammy

          Taephit, apparently you haven’t read my explanation below.

  • http://zunetracks.net loganarchy

    Lol

  • Sean Pulatie

    Love him or hate him, damn near everyone on the planet knows at least one Bizkit song. Does that make it good? No. But tell me how many people know one Protest The Hero song. Are PTH a better band? By far. But where PTH are musical geniuses, Durst and his band are marketing geniuses. Regardless of how much they’re hated right now, they will continue to sell out shows and sell millions upon millions of albums. I have to have a little respect for the guy in that right.

    • seveword

      No you don’t.

    • tobytobiasjones

      Credit? Maybe.

      Respect? Fuck no.

    • Cougar Party

      I don’t know man. Combining Nu-Metal and wigger rap doesn’t get a lot of respect from me. Jonas Brothers sell a lot of records too.

      • John

        Correction, their label/management were marketing geniuses.

    • Double D

      I don’t know a single biscuit song. Swear to fucking god.

  • bucketochicken

    Our bad, Fred. Sorry brother. We honestly had no idea you felt this way deep down in your gooey insides… We all just assumed you’re an inelegant, marginally educated, opportunistic jackass with an ego the size of Pangea. I can see now that you’re really not a shallow cunt with zero integrity (artistic or otherwise), and are in fact, very genuine, honest, pure in your intensions, and vulnerable like a little lamb. We all totally misinterpreted your artistic intent when climbing out of a giant toilet on stage, and boy oh boy do I feel like a total heel now. On behalf of mammals everywhere, please accept my most sincere and humble apologies.

  • vegard

    oh, how i loved their debut album….

    *all metal credibility goes down the drain*

  • joshkid

    Now there definitely has to be a Bizkit album on the list…..

  • Walker

    Wouldnt it be funny if the next record was any good? In terms of anticipation records I actually cant wait to hear what they come up with. I”m saying on a total entertainment factor. Cause I actually think that band might have that debut hunger again. I highly doubt it will be as stupid as last 2 records. I dont think it will be slipped into the the top 21 list of the 21st century by any means but I think a successful band with something to prove could be interesting. I for one did love their debut album when I was 17, who knows, maybe they find something worthwhile again.

    • festernaecus

      you didn’t like it because it was a good album. you liked it because you were 17. Unless you have the ability to reverse your own aging process, chances are you’ll never like another limp bizkit record again. and I for one would like to say that you’re a better man for it.

  • Ziltoid

    And it’s articles like these that makes this site worth visiting. Very nice job.

  • 20 eyes

    YAWN… Move on metal sucks

  • ERiK

    Who is he trying to kid? Did he steal this from some Cobain rant from 15 years ago?

    • Fufkin

      Well he has got Cobain’s face tattooed on his chest after all.

  • DemonicLemming

    Who knew Fred Durst could have been a poster-boy emo if he’d only have affected some eyeliner and girl’s jeans? “I was abused as a child” seems to be the fucking catch-all excuse from raping babies to making shitty music now.

  • sethcore

    what a fuckin tool…..i mean really, a sensitive guy?….what a fuckin crock…he is such a fuckin douche bag & limp bisquick is the shittiest, most cliched piece of shit excuse for a band ever.

  • demonstrator

    God this post is so satisfying!

  • Bill

    pwn3d

  • metalguy

    DICK

  • MOOSE_KNUCKLE

    Awsome

  • SourDeez

    Doesn’t the sensitive man talk about sniffing panties in one of their songs? I seem to remember that.

  • http://www.welovemetal.com We Love Metal

    Jesus, I hate this guy. Its becoming personal, sure credit for some of his work but he annoys me to no end. Things were better when he was back living in the basement.

  • alex

    a motherfuckin chainsaw, what

  • http://www.TheMetalReporter.net TMR

    “There’s some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. I did it all for the nookie.”

    Touché Axl !

  • Duran

    I C Wiener, Durst

  • groverXIII

    Fred Durst… someone EVERYONE on this site can agree on hating.

    • 20 eyes

      i disagree, he’s certainly riled alot of yous up. HAHAHAHA.
      RILED UP

  • Ben

    I can’t. He ran out of lyrical ideas incredibly fast and acted like a douche in the public eye. But the fact remains that he is a human being. The fact remains that most of you just hate him because his band became famous. The fact remains that most of you just talk shit because it’s the popular thing to do. Sorry, I’m not even a fan of their shit or anything but to say that someone can’t have any side to them besides what they show on stage is to be utterly and completely devoid of human feeling. I’m not going to shed any tears for the guy, but if you can’t find some kind of common thread between what he’s saying and your own life, well, you should just eat buckshot because you’re not worth the sack of skin you’re inhabiting.

  • Mike

    Love how he talks about being bullied and misunderstood as if no one has heard the message he left on Taproot’s answering machine after they didn’t sign with him, threatning to bury them.

  • MackYourFace

    To who ever the person with the screen name of Sammy is: If you honestly think you were using your Ipod in 1999, whenever you heard Limp Biscuit on the radio, you must have fooled yourself. That or I am an idiot and you own a time machine. Ipods were released like two years after Limp Biscuit’s major success even was released. Never mind, you are an idiot.

    • Sammy

      Wow, was it that long ago? Okay, so I pushed a CD in then. What difference does it make? The point is still the same. That point being that it’s possible to have heard the music without knowing the music. Hell, this morning at the gym I heard the new Kelly Clarkson single for the 50th time, so I could probably sing it from memory now.

      Was that date faux pas really worth getting that worked up over? Sorry if your little brain couldn’t comprehend the forest with all those trees getting in the way.

  • Jared

    Their first album rips all the shit out their right now. Fred Durst does suck, but lets be real, the band is real good, Bodom would not be there if it was not for limp bizkit

    • 20 eyes

      YES! true good point, that album was sweet

  • Phillip

    Say what you want about Limp Bizkit, but Three Dollar Bill Y’all was fucking sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

  • Ray

    I’m with Ben,the one who actually thought about what he was saying before he posted,not just a typical “go metal,screw bizkit” comment you’d expect at a place like this.So I don’t like Bizkit at all.Never have.Never bought an album,never listened to a single song longer than I had to,but the fact is … Fred Durst sound’s more decent to me than alot of other jackasses around here.He walked away for a good reason; Whether he was speaking literally or not,assholes (or people just like them) who bullied him growing up started embracing his music,right? So he get’s pissed,walks away.Now … If he were a “real” asshole like so many of you claim,he would have cared fucking less,banged more women,released more shitty album’s,etc.But it sound’s to me -as unimportant as it sound’s to you-that the guy has his share of demon’s,and didn’t want his music directed toward’s those same assholes who inspired it.Yeah,he sound’s like a real douche to me.So which one of you would walk away from ridiculous amount’s of money,women and fame because you had a heart? Uh huh.Didn’t think so.Idiot’s.Why don’t you rag on somebody more deserving,like the abomination that is Gene Simmons or Brett Michaels?

    • seveword

      Put spaces after commas and periods, and learn how to spell. I can’t read that damn thing.

      Actually, it seems like you’re trying to defend ol’ Freddy. All right then; if he’s such a good person, such a normal guy, and he’s done nothing to earn the ire of so many people, then why is he starting up his shitty band again?
      People don’t change; no matter how “emotional” or “mature” he is now, 10 years ago he was a douchebag extraordinaire, writing songs about such deeply emotional topics as, and I pause for emphasis, “the nookie.”
      There isn’t a human being alive who can defend this man from these kind of attacks against his character, his personality, and his actions. Don’t even try, little man.

  • http://www.myspace.com/breathofmetalproductions pokesmot

    worst band ever

  • sean

    my favorite fred durst lyric:

    “hey kid take my advice
    you don’t want to step into a big pile of shit”

    i mean, c’mon. i think that says it all right there.

  • WeAreChuckNorris

    he should go back to tattooing,,,or did he suck at that as well?

  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    I always pictured him as a New Romantic

  • Ray

    Seveword, you have proven me wrong.All hail the power and wisdom of Seveword! For the love of god, why do you find it necessary to point out my lack of grammer and spelling error’s before the topic at hand? I wasn’t defending the guy, just simply saying that perhap’s he is not as bad as people like you (asses) makes him out to be.I’d be willing to bet you are so predictable in your likes and dislikes in music that … One,you really dig Metallica, but nothing following the black album. Two, you never really liked 80′s metal until it suddenly became hip and nastalgic in 2004. and 3, above all, you hop on any metalsuck’s bashing- bandwagon you possibly can.

  • G

    LOL fantastic.
    Saying that though, the videos of bizkit from Download were interesting, the fact that so many people CHOOSE to actually stand there and watch that shit.

    I guess flies like shit

  • tr00

    this interview needs to be read while listening to Art Fag by Anal Cunt.

    the fact that he likes the smiths does not surprise me.

  • http://myspace.com/zerolotusixxx Zerolotusixxx

    WHO THE FUCK IS THIS BAND? WHAT IS LIMP BIZKIT?
    just kidding but i wish i was serious

  • BlakMetallistKrieg

    If the masterminds behind goth legends The Cure and Bauhaus knew that their great music inspired THIS GUY, they’d kill themselves.

  • Tookie B

    Fred Durst is such a cock juggler. Only a dipshit such as himself could possibly be guilty of such epic ass-nuggetry. I could only hope that if I ever saw a photo of myself in such drag, that I would have the decency and self-respect to put a cap in myself.

    Egad. The stench is overwhelming.

  • Danny Dodge

    Regardless of the lyrics, lb musically are amazing, fred can rap, scream, and sing (to an extent on early records, and really well on later records). Mabe some of the more fun songs have silly lyrics, but those songs dont take themselves seriously and neither should you. Fred is capable of amazing deep heartfelt lyrics, although you have to look past the singles to learn that. Limp bizkit are a diverse band, howeve their problem, which is or was also always their strengh, is that the music is comprised of opposite poles. Metalheads will be put off by the rap, chavs will be put off by the rock. That results in alot of e-tards going to places like this and typing ‘pimp dickshit r shit’ and never be able to justify that more inteligantly than ‘cos they r’ or ‘freds gay’. Ha, fred is married to a woman who is fit as fuck and you’re a virgin at 24. Fred is rich, you take orders on a drive-thru, fred has the best scream in the metal music industry, you have a burnt copy of a machinehead cd. Now, who’s the ‘gay’ one, hmmm?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trip-Cahouet/706361037 Trip Cahouet

    No matter what shit Fred has gotten over the years, he did one thing that benefitted rock music, which was discovering Staind. They are great, regardless of how much shit they get for the “sound-alike bands” that are popular today (Nickelback, Seether, Three Days Grace) and Aaron Lewis is a fantastic singer. Besides, in defense of Limp Bizkit, John Otto is a crazy mofo on the drums.

  • Rob

    Fred Durst is still a MAJOR ASSHOLE you guys are so wrong. Hes a pussy too.