Hate is all the world has even seen lately.
I have just spent the last couple days trying to dig up old rock songs from my childhood.
Does anyone remember when Limp Bizkit was something cool simply because they seemed so weird and cutting edge?
Why did they become stagnant? I think I have come up with a solid answer. Before they got big, they only made music for themselves and the small group of fans that followed them. Then Faith hit. And all of a sudden LB needed to appeal to a large majority of fans. And the next album they released seemed to squash the thirst most fans had. But soon after that, LB seemed to loose their edge. Why? I think it is not because we became over saturated, but it is because LB tried to make songs people approved of. That is the major mistake most bands seem to make. I don’t know if it is the production company or the bands themselves, but someone decides that the next album needs to have a mass appeal. And in the quest to find the mass appeal the band looses what made them so amazing to begin with. Uniqueness.
Example:
Limp Bizkit – Counterfeit 1997
Limp Bizkit – Rollin 2001
As you can see, Counterfeit was angst ridden and rather dark. It is an example of what LB brought to the table at first. But Rollin was more of a club type of song. It is not the same type of rock.
LB was a prime example because at first they were so unique and cool and then 4 years later they were so hated. But other bands have seen this pitfall and found themselves face first in a steaming pile of their own greed.
Puddle of Mudd, Korn, Lit, and many others have changed their sounds to guffah and silence.
Staind is a prime example of taking a change in sound and running with it.
Staind – Mudshovel 1999
Staind – Its been awhile 2001
Both are good songs in their own right, but they are very different.
I know you probably have been reading thinking I would eventually have a point. Nope. Just an observation. Thanks for reading, though.
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