Hmm, I thought about this thread again this morning as I was reading that TinyMixTapes analysis of nu metal. I'd known about all the travesties that happened at Woodstock '99 (mostly thanks to Steven Hyden's great chapter on it in his first book What Ever Happened to Alternative Nation years ago), but I often forget about Limp Bizkit's intense misogyny because I'm having so much fun :/ It does make it strange though that, just like with Brokencyde a decade later, people often would ignore these real issues of the music instead of talking about how much they hate that rap shit in their heavy metal (or with certain types, how Pro Tools and digital distortion were "ruining music"). This shows that, while there definitely was a lot of privilege and ignorance in nu metal, there was just as much of it on the outskirts, which is much of why I feel like a blanket distaste feels wrong for me. And as Tap pointed out, there was something truly futurist (a label that itself implies problematicness if you know twentieth-century history) about the scene, and in a general genre like metal loaded with white supremacists, the diversity of nu metal was surprisingly solid.
Still on the same level as most - if not all - Led Zep albums. Probs. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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