I hate this! (Significant Other - Limp Bizkit)

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Product:	Significant Other - Limp Bizkit
Date:	27.11.01 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: poor songs, just noise

Question time Bizkit people, Fred Durst did it all for:
(a) The nookie
(b) The money
(c) The fame
(d) The music
If you answered (a) then you've either already got the album or, like the rest of us, have heard this awful song on MTV at some point. Oh, which also means you've probably seen the "Look at me! I'm hard! I'm getting arrested video!" (Tactic #327 To Sell Records: Promote Violence And Riots). If you answer (b) or (c) then you'd also be right as far as Fred Durst's motives are concerned. However if you answered (d), go back to your home planet. They miss you there.

This is exactly the kind of sh-t that mainstream rock fans buy when they want to look rebellious. This is what the N*Sync fans buy when they decide Justin Timberlake just doesn't do it for them anymore. This, in short, is a turgid piece of poop that is only used as some kind of musical "status symbol". How many of you Limp Bizkit fans would have honestly bought this album had it not been for Nookie? Quite a few I bet. Except maybe those who heard the first album and thought the band were quite good.

The music here is dire dire dire. I'm not sure what the band were trying to accomplish but it's a shambles, a total mess at the best of times. The intro song, "Just Like This", is terrible. If this is hip-hop mixed with metal without, seemingly, the hip-hop or the metal.

Then we have everyone's favourite song "Nookie"! Yay! Hooray for Limp Bizkit! Erm... no wait this isn't any better. Damn. And to think, this video gets played on MTV all the time and all the nu-metal fans who've just sprung out of nowhere after listening to N*Sync all their lives like it. I wonder why?

And then the mindless, the moronic, the oh-so-violent "Break Stuff" is next. Fred Durst warns us all that he'll "BREAK YOUR F'N FACE TONIGHT!". Oh dear, he sounds rathe
r annoyed doesn't he? Let's look at the lyrics and see what he's mad about. Hmm... doesn't say. Maybe his milk's gone off again and he can't have his morning Kellogg's Frosties. Or he lost his 'Hello Kittie' socks or something.

AND THEN *shock horror* A GOOD SONG! Yup, I actually quite like "Re-Arranged". The lyrics are far better than anything else on the album and whilst the singing isn't great, it's certainly passable, due to the fact that Durst gives up trying to rap. Unfortunately after this song, yet again, it's all downhill again.

Limp Bizkit bring their mates Scott Weiland and Jonathon Davis in to help out with the next song "Nobody Like You". But even the guest appearances can't hide the fact this is another poor song with no reason to listen to it again.

And it's followed by the worst song on the album, "Don't Go Off Wandering". A mess of violins, guitar and yet more out of tune warbling (it's not rap and it's not singing so warbling was the best word I can find). This is followed by "9 Teen 90 Nine" and if the title wasn't enough to put you off the song, the music will. Or the lyrics about Ken Shamrock (WWF Wrestler).

Oh wait what's this? A secret track. Oh it's Mama Durst singing! Quite funny this because if you listen, not only can she sing but she can also play acoustic guitar and write lyrics. Oh dear, triple embarrasment for Durst Jr!

Which brings us nicely to "N 2 Gether Now". Another stupid title, another stupid song. This time Fred brings everyone's favourite Wu-Tang Clan member, Method Man. Presumably the others laughed at him. Can you picture RZA alongside Fred Durst? *shudder* Anyway, this is your typical rap song and all Method Man does is rap. Which shows Fred up considerably. Very amusing.

The lyrical highlight of the album is next, "No Sex". I th
ink this song is intended to provide an emotional response and it does. I was crying, literally. But eventually I stopped laughing enough to listen to lyrics such as "Should've left my pants on this time". And then laughed some more.

In "Show Me What You Got", Fred lists all the cities he's embarrased with his lame band and also sings about tea parties. If it doesn't make sense to you, ask a Limp Bizkit fan, I'm sure they'll quite happily explain if you can drag them away from MTV for long enough.

The last song is "A Lesson Learned" and while it's not a 'proper' song, it's far better than anything else. It can actually provoke some sort of response from the listener. Involving a baseball bat and smashing up of a CD labelled "Significant Other".

What else can I say about this CD? It's absolutely terrible. And to think, people pay money for this. Ah well, I guess this CD's okay if you want to act tough but find the real metal bands of today such as Vision Of Disorder just aren't trendy enough for you.

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