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2* ApprovalOfGod: The city of Austin, Texas put up a public poll to rename its sanitation services. While some names like [[ShockSite Lemon Party]] and Literature/{{H|arryPotter}}ufflepuff were submitted, the winner by a landslide with almost 30,000 votes? ''[[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/austin-solid-waste-fred-durst_n_822082.html Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts]]'' ([[http://austinist.com/2013/08/14/two_years_ago_the_city.php "We’re picking up garbage and he’s been producing it for 20 years, it made sense.”]]). And just to show how much people liked this, the second place winner only had 2,069 votes.
3* BonusMaterial: Deluxe edition of "New Old Songs" has three additional remixes of "[[Music/ChocolateStarfishAndTheHotDogFlavoredWater My Way]]".
4** Some versions of ''Greatest Hitz'' ends with "The Truth", from ''Music/TheUnquestionableTruth (Part 1)''.
5* ChartDisplacement: Their sole #1 on the Alternative Chart is... "Re-Arranged" (which probably benefitted from being the follow-up to their breakout song, "Nookie"). And the single after that, "N [=2gether=] Now", is the band's second highest entry on the Hot 100 after "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)".
6* CreatorBacklash:
7** ''Greatest Hitz''. Borland in particular called this release a piece of crap and a waste of money.
8** Another Borland example. In a 2008 interview he admitted to hating the lyrics for the song "Nookie" and also regretted coming up with the name of the song. Which he originally came up with as a joke title and didn't think anyone would take seriously.
9* DevelopmentHell: ''The Unquestionable Truth Vol. 2'' and ''Stampede of the Disco Elephants''. The latter may or may not have become VaporWare, as it is not clear if it eventually became ''Still Sucks'' or if they scrapped the whole album and wrote a new one.
10* DirectedByCastMember: Fred Durst directed most of the band's videos.
11* DisownedAdaptation: According to Wes Borland, Music/GeorgeMichael hated their version of "Faith" and "hated us for doing it".
12* GenreKiller: They were probably more responsible than anyone else for killing NuMetal. At their absolute biggest, they were ''the'' face of nu metal. Even Music/{{Korn}} was overshadowed by them, Music/{{Slipknot}}, Music/{{Disturbed}}, and Music/LinkinPark were all in their infancy, and Music/{{Deftones}} had already ditched the genre. If you look at cultural depictions of nu metal from 1999-2002, Limp Bizkit was the template, and they were probably one of the biggest bands on the planet at that time. When they fell, they fell ''hard'', but it wasn't even ''Results May Vary'' that destroyed them (though it didn't help), it's that people were sick of them. The Chicago date of the 2003 [[Music/{{Metallica}} Summer Sanitarium Tour]] (where they were booed off the stage, with Fred Durst probably making things worse by insulting the crowd back and dropping homophobic slurs) provided a pretty accurate look at what mainstream audiences thought of them by the end, and within nu metal, there was the perception that they had made the genre turn into everything that it shouldn't have been: a stupid, creatively bankrupt cash cow that had gone from being music made by and for outsiders to music being made by and for the bullies who tormented said outsiders and fed their trauma, and it led to a very real effort within the genre well before they ever actually fell to make it crash and burn. When they finally did implode, they had become so thoroughly intertwined with nu metal as a consistently viable mainstream genre that they took everything down with them, and the bands that did survive either did so by changing their sound to get away from the genre (a notable example being Linkin Park) or because they barely qualified as Nu Metal to begin with. Wes Borland himself echoed this in 2021, stating that they had gotten way too big for their own good and had become grossly overexposed, and people just got sick of seeing their faces in every single corner and were ready for an end to Bizkitmania even before he left the band.
13* HostilityOnTheSet: This revelation from Fred Durst confirms that no one in the band got along with each other:
14->''"The first time I saw Wes Borland, he had ponytails and girly half-shirt on. He was playing in a band called Cronk and was like Les Claypool on guitar, with a little Manson in there. So he joined and the other guys taught him the songs. I actually met Wes for the first time at our first gig! It was wild but it worked. I made up vocals on the spot! We never took time to consider friendships, that wasn’t part of it. It was just about the magic that happened when we were together… none of us were ever friends."''
15* TheRedStapler: Let's just say that red baseball caps like the one Fred Durst wore became ''very'' popular in the late-'90s.
16* ReferencedBy: Sports Maxx, a major antagonist from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', has a [[SemanticSuperpower Stand]] named Limp Bizkit, which allows him to resurrect {{invisible|Monsters}} [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]].
17* WorkingTitle: ''Chocolate Starfish'' was originally announced as ''Limpdependece Day'' early on, then just ''Limpdependence'', then the final title. Despite this, ''Limpdependece'' would be reutilized as the title of a pre-release tour they held that same year.

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