Do you still get freaked out and excited whenever a band or a member of a band you post interacts with your post especially people like dj lethal and stuff
Now, I’d never advertise this directly to the timeline but since a fraction of a fraction’s fraction of my overall follow count read these I feel okay putting it here. DJ Lethal actually joined our Discord server after I DM’d him the link. Needless to say, we went ballistic. I personally was screaming, as in out loud, at my desk when Discord dropped that “Welcome DJ Lethal!” in chat. What was really funny was I think he expected us to be yet another “haha limp bizkit” type server. He asked if that’s what we were doing, making fun of Limp Bizkit, to which we replied emphatically “No.” That seemed to mean a lot to him, I’m not sure if he gets the credit he deserves nearly as much as he should. So, to answer your question, yes. Yes I do.
Korn low key kinda overrated
I agree, but I need to qualify this. Korn are only overrated within our nu-metal circles. In any other context they’re vastly underrated. Seriously! Walk outside this nu-metal bubble I blew for a second. The counter-narrative to “nu-metal was a mistake” is only just beginning to emerge, lots of people still think this shit universally sucks. Not only that but Korn deserve to be critiqued, if we hold them to such high regard we should also feel okay being critical of their music too the same as any other great art. So while I feel comfortable questioning Korn’s status within our good faith nu-metal sphere, outside of it I’m as ride or die as they come.
Have you been able to calculate the exact *worst* year for nu metal between 1994-2022?
That would be 2003. A trio of massively wack releases - St Anger, Results May Vary, and Staind’s 14 Shades of Grey - pushed public appetite for nu-metal to the breaking point and it subsequently blew. The pop charts were full of artists working in rap, hip-hop and R&B spaces making incredible, boundary pushing music - Tom Breihan’s addictive, brilliant Number Ones column has been covering the 03/04 years and it could be the best run of #1 singles yet - while nu-metal had become the hopelessly boring, leaden angst-rock its detractors always assumed it was. As a result, that year’s big successes, Linkin Park’s Meteora and Evanescence’s Fallen, stoked as much exhaustion as they did excitement. The show was mostly over and it was time for the genre to take a little dirt nap. Dirt nap over now though, wake ya ass up.
Thank you for running the best account on this site, ilu man
I appreciate that, been a blast, love u too.
See you all in 2023. It’s gonna be the best year for nu-metal yet.
Only reason you say that 03/04 was such a good run of singles was because you were, like, 11 around that time
Pop music is subjectively skewed towards one's youth
Also I know 2003 had some high profile stinkers, but that still feels better than the Obama years when there was no nu at all because it wasn't old enough to generate nostalgia but not recent enough to be trendy. Rock music overall kinda died a heat death around that time just by having no more ideas that were interesting enough to matter or popular enough to chart.