Video Hangover: Limp Bizkit - "Nookie"
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"Nookie"
Limp Bizkit, 1999
Yes, this song is as dumb as you remember.
Tales of a fourth grade lyricist
Worst lyrics of the '90s, definitely, and a contender for worst of all time. "Nookie" makes Bell Biv Devoe sound like Robert Frost. Durst really backed himself into a rhymer's corner when he tried matching words with Nookie. Cookie? Bookie? Rookie? Dookie? And stick it up your a--? The cookie? That just doesn't make sense. Frankly, I'm amazed he got all those people to sing along. But hey, aside from the infantile lyrics, the awful rapping, and the yelling, it's really not that bad of a song.
Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland can best be described as:
a) a very tall, shaved Ewok
b) Manga Tom Waits
c) Keanu Reeves after a trip to the eye doctor
d) a total fucking badass
Fred Durst, Director: an appreciation
One week after world cinema lost two of its leading
lights, it seems appropriate to focus on one of the greatest nu-metal video directors of all time: Mr. Fred Durst. "Nookie," from early in his oeuvre, introduces several significant themes that Durst would expand upon in later films, namely: man's ability to both rap and rock at the same time; walking somewhere, for some reason; and hot "chicks" (often more than one at a time). The red baseball cap, symbolizing the ultimate futility of existence, is Durst's constant companion, and the final sequence, in which he is taken away by the police for no apparent reason, is a devastating indictment of reason itself.
Posted at 11:00 AM in Video, Video Hangover
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When one ponders whether or not there is a God, I submit:
Jeff Buckley - Dead.
Fred Durst - Alive.
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god i miss 8th grade
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What a great trip down memory lane. A shameful trip. i cringed while reading this. I wonder if Fred Durst would look back at this song/video and still say "Hell yeah, Thats still tight"? My guess is yes.
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I think that i just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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My brain hurts
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Let's all say a silent prayer that Fred Durst and Vanilla Ice haven't collaborated yet.
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No matter how little grammatical sense that made.
Man, I have to stop posting on no sleep.
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@sonic why do people say that, it's dumb
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Can the police arrest Durst for real? For past crimes? Today?
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Don't blame Durst. America made him the star.
DwD
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And in ten years when this blog looks back at MIA we can say the exact same shit about her.
And lord o lord, do not think i am standing up for this squid pile, I am just giggling at the pretentious hipsters who all had this album back in the day. I did, but don't have it no mo!
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so what i'm getting from this is that i should be ashamed that i went to the taping of this video. what can i say, you nailed it.
my buddy is actually the guy in the wife beater with the skull cap on crowd surfing at the second verse. (2:11 - 2:10, remaining) poor bastards
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Oh nookie rhymes with cookie. It finally all clicks.
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i still have it in my computer. *shamefully looks down on the floor*
thank God i threw out big willie style when i got the chance!
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Shit. I didn't even have to watch this and the song is already stuck in my head. Fuck arresting Durst, we should arrest MTV for ever showing this.
Also, Durst has a movie coming out sometime soon. I saw some picture of him on the set and he actually looked like...I don't want to say normal, but maybe...not as much of an asshole (read: the chin beard and backwards hat were nowhere to be seen)?
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I completely forgot about the staged arrest ending. The funniest part is that his fans continue to cheer as Durst is taken away.
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I didn't get the line about the cookie in 7th grade, and I don't get it today.
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why is it that youtube videos load faster if i wiggle my mouse cursor around?
also, this was the funniest comment i've ever read on stereogum:
>>Let's all say a silent prayer that Fred Durst
>>and Vanilla Ice haven't collaborated yet.
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i completely forgot that he basically lifted a lyric from that eve 6 song that was popular about 3 years before this song.
if you're ripping off an unimportant band with marginal popularity, you probably won't fare much better over the long run.
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That's funny...I remember that video being ten kinds of AWESOME.
Rap metal 2007 = hair metal 1992. By these figures, we can expect pseudo ironic hipster bands to start pulling out the 7-string Ibanezs around 2019.
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I honestly havent heard this song or seen the video since it aired 1999. As memory serves, it was #1 on TRLs first season. After watching it now as a 26 year old, I have to admit that everything about it is terrible. People at my highschool were all over this song and sadly, I was too. 1999 symbolized the end of good mainstream rock. Nu Metal and Rap/Metal basically killed off alternative rock and spawned out the craptastic bands in 2000. Kid Rock, Limp Bizket, Distrubed, Linkin Park. Thank god for indie bands right?
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I was more into the movies of '99 than the music:
The Matrix, Blair Witch, Austin Powers 2, Toy Story 2, American Beauty, Fight Club, American Pie, South Park, The Sixth Sense, Magnolia, and what the hell - The Phantom Menace.
Damn, what a year!
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Heh. It's funny reading peoples' comments about how supposedly awful this is. Rap metal totally is the new hair metal. I remember everyone who was "cool" (myself included) talking smack about Guns N' Roses back in '93, and now they're part of the Hipster Parthenon. In twenty years everyone here will be talking about how they were into Limp Bizkit "back in the day" and how they had the first Linkin Park album before anyone else. Lighten up. It's just music.
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you know what? i DID have the first Linkin Park album before anyone else!
and, yeah, the movies were awesome that year, Blu. as well as the ones you said (and subtracting Phantom Menace...): Being John Malkovich, Bowfinger, Dogma, Office Space, Rushmore, The Green Mile, The Virgin Suicides and, of course, Cruel Intentions!
or maybe that last one is only a big deal to me because I was a 15 year old Buffy fan back then...
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I think all of North America was temporarily insane circa summer of 99. I liked this song, I owned the CD. And I am so ashamed.
I don't think Limp Bizkit will ever be the recipients of a hipster revival, even in an ironic sense. This is music we'd all like to forget.
Limp Bizkit is like the girl you picked up at a bar, who you thought looked pretty hot at the time...then you wake up hungover the next day and wonder what the hell you were thinking.
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Ferris, I think you mean Pantheon not Parthenon.
What's worse though, this or Bizkit's awesome take on the Mission: Impossible theme?
"Cuz hate iz all the worst has evah seen lately!!!"
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*world not worst...
freudian slip
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Actually, either Parthenon or Panthenon are accepatble. They're both temples of the Gods, but one's in Greece and the other's in Rome.
Re: ironic revivals. If back in '93 you had mentioned skinny pants, mullets, or the Darkness as elements of the hipster zeitgeist, I would have punched someone in the mouth. Figuratively speaking, of course. That said, rap metal as a genre wasn't bad as such, but like hair metal back in high school, it attracted everyone you didn't want to be friends with. It's my impression that most people's reaction to LB in this forum isn't due to a visceral reaction to the vicious combination of rapping while rocking, it's that it's the punching bag du jour of the hipster crowd with a still-too-recent awkward musical phase in most of their histories. Which, as history tells us, will once again rear its ugly head in the lives of future hipsters yet to be born.
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"It's my impression that most people's reaction to LB in this forum isn't due to a visceral reaction to the vicious combination of rapping while rocking, it's that it's the punching bag du jour of the hipster crowd with a still-too-recent awkward musical phase in most of their histories."
Wrong impression. I was 28 in 1999, and I assure you, it's because Limp Bizkit is musical diarrhea. Was then, is now.
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I blame it on the internet. Or more precisely, the lack at that time of the plethora of options we have today to aid us in discovering music. As a teenager at that time, we had rock radio, MTV, and national music mags to help guide our taste. All these outlets gobbled up rap-rock, so it was hard not to get into it at the time.
I may simply be attempting to justify that dark period.
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Shaggy 3 is correct, in this context, the word is pantheon (a group of important people), not Parthenon (temple to the goddess Athena) or Panthenon (???).
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Fucking classical mythology majors.
The internet was everywhere back in 1999. There wasn't quite the swell of mp3/music blogs there are now, but Napster was in its heyday. Anyone who was looking for new music & couldn't find any wasn't looking very hard.
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lol i think this is a great song u fuckin dickhead
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I wish I could tell if comments that employ "u" as a pronoun and bust out the "lol" are real or just someone being really funny.
Or Fred Durst is posting as "ure mum".
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Limp Bizkit was NEVER cool
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Awh, no one has made a snarky comment about the matching Nookiettes? That's what I remember about this video... them in the background, syncronized and matching Fred Durst. oh Heavens, the matching.
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Wrong impression. I was 28 in 1999....
Posted by: mrs at August 8, 2007 1:12 AM
WOW! A real live dinosaur! Why are you on this site, aging hipster? Go get a job please.
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I own Stereogum.
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LB will NEVER experience a "revival" like some of the 1980s bands. Why? Because sucking is sucking. Period.
It's interesting to note that the first example of "hair metal" revival that everyone brings up is Guns n' Roses. Let's face it, GnR's talent far exceeded many of the bands that they were unfairly lumped in with. Was GnR really "hair metal" per se (like Poison or Motley Crue) or were they something of a throwback to bluesy 1970s rock? That's like saying an appreciation for Aerosmith's work in the late 80s is "hair metal" nostalgia. It's just not.
If I haven't made my point, let me try again: rap metal sucks. LB sucks worst of all.
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I own Stereogum.
Posted by: mrs at August 8, 2007 4:30 PM
Hahahaha YES.
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>>>If I haven't made my point, let me try again: rap metal sucks
I remember when I was 14 I used to say I liked all kinds of music, "except country & rap." In the years since, I've decided I sounded like a douche.
Re: Guns N' Roses not being hair metal. Well, what qualifies as hair metal? Is it...well, the hair? 'Cause those boys used to tease it all the way out (see: "Welcome to the Jungle"). Well, maybe it's the music; they did rock pretty hard. But then again, Skid Row's second disc rocked pretty hard and they're hair metal...right? Crue were about as hard as anyone out there, but they were definitely every bit as pretty as Poison (almost). They definitely wore as much make up. GnR might have been the best of the genre, rocked a little harder than all the others, and managed to transcend most of the foibles of hair bands, but they were still hair metal: they came from the same scene, they wrote power ballads, and they used Aquanet. I wouldn't qualify all of Aerosmith's stuff as hair, but their 80s catalog reeks strongly of it. I mean, honestly: can you look anyone in the eye & make a strong case for "Cryin'"?
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I still like this song.
I bet half the people that have commented on this probably do as well but are ashamed to admit it, which in itself is just as shameful.
No denying that most here could at least sing a line from the song without having to be reminded of how it goes. And there's also no denying that a lot of the people that have shown their disgust for the song here enjoyed it when Limp Bizkit were popular.
Things like this really do clarify in ones mind the whole 'indie snob' thing, but then by reading one of the more popular music blogs on the internet and probably going to pitchfork for recommendations on what to hear next surely indie doesn't mean what it used to. Most people can probably visualise the fact that independent music is extremely well covered by not only independent media, but mass media these days that it's all becoming one and the same. Domino records with the Arctic Monkeys are out for your money in exactly the same way the majors were when they released Limp Bizkit records. Yet you are the ones sitting there with both albums in your collection. Who really is the sucker?!
(that probably went off on a bit of a tangent and rant mode, so apologies)
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not as bad as bloc party's latest record. fuck arresting durst, they should've arrested kele okereke and the bloc cock crew instead for being such morons.
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Hey, remember when we all saw his dick?
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seth, Rushmore came out in 1998, not 1999. sorry, i'm a wes anderson nerd. but yeah, 1999 was a pretty amazing year for movies. aside from everyone limpin' with the bizkit, it was actually a pretty awesome year for music too, if one knew where to look.
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Fred Durst is crap. But LB as a band actually did some interesting things musically. Wes Borland was a fairly innovative guitarist, and the rhythm section was generally pretty kickin.
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i still like this song, and i also own the first linkin park album, which i still play to this day.
if battles played these same exact riffs, you'd be all over this
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What's unfortunate is that Limp Dick and Pearl Jam generally had the same fans, though it is probably different now, or maybe not. Jocks, meatheads, Metallica followers, etc.
Also, suckers, don't blame radio or MTV for your shitty tastes in music, you have a choice if you want to listen to shitty music. You were sold.
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if battles played these exact same riffs, they would suck.
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I'll readily admit that limp bizkit was part of my tormented (and musically horrifying) adolescence, but it's not a good song. It was good because you got to yell and your were pissed off at your parents and your hormones. I never liked it because it was good music. The same with GNR, I'd listen to this for some nostalgia or to have a laugh. I don't think anyone will ever listen to it for its quality.
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Oh, nostalgia...I totally went as one of the nookettes for halloween. I was like 14 (maaaaybe 15...), leave me alone!
proposal for the worst mash-up of all time: "Gettin Nookie Wit It"
Christ, I'm going to dig up my copy of the first Papa Roach CD now...
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*crossing legs, wearing American Apparrel, sipping of Starbucks coffee, listening to "The Drift" by Scott Walker*
Anyone who likes Limp Bizkit is just another sheep. Me? I like my music unlistenable.
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Whenever I see fred durst, I automatically think of him and kid rock sitting together getting blowjobs from skanks. Cocks exposed. Beside eachother. Perhaps a bit of curiosity in the air.
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I think the next video hangover should be "Bawitdaba". It only goes along with this terrible shit haha.
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GnR were a hair band, but very different from the rest of the hair crowd. Two reasons: Slash, far better guitarist than clowns like CC DeVille and whoever was in Warrant; and Axl's highly public displays of self-loathing, which, in a way, paved the way for the mainstream embrace of one Senor Cobain a few years later.
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I think the next video hangover should be "I Still Remember". It only goes along with this terrible shit haha
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we listened to a band called limp bizkit...hahaha! limp bizkit????
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aaah limp biskit...me and my brother knew like every song from their album (the oddly name startfish somethign and the hot dog flavored water??? who remember that??) and i learned the dance to "rollin'" i know pathetic and sad, shut up, i grew up and realized the sad truth.
plus in south america we dont get too many indie rock! :p
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Well if is a juicy confession you want, a confession you get...
In 1999 I happened to work at a small clothing company in the mall called Abercrombie and Fitch.
Yes we spun that damn album every night we closed that damned store. There were several Wes-esque broom-guitar jams and the leaping into manequins and the wardrobes.
Yes I bought the 7 string and yes I started a metal band. Yes we tried to play KORN.
Yes I went to Family Values, twice. Yes I hooked up with some skanky Durst-ette.
This quazi-public confession is certainly not enough to wash me of such licentious acts, however, it is important to note that there is hope for the ignorant, there is life after TRL.
Thanks for the good times Fred!
And a special thank you to Christina for inspiring such an historical creative work!
Faithful
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Nookie never had nothing on Break Stuff
*sarcasm alert*
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I like how Durst is wearing a heavy winter jacket while all of the women are in skirts and tanks. You could say it makes him look cool! HAHAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA I MADE A FUNNY
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and i thought i was lame for listening to ska in '97...
there is really no excuse for having owned this album. also, i'm pretty sure the eve 6 lyric was an homage, which is actually worse than ripping it off.
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starfish in the hot dog flavored water
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Durst and Vanilla Ice did do a duet. Ice, Ice Baby. Live. I saw it on VH1 in like, '00.
No idea why I can recall this useless information.
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it's amazing that people still hate fred durst. truly amazing. that is what we call longevity, when people can still hate you years after any sort of lick of media attention. borland is a pretty cool dude and his side projects have been nothing short of cool. he is an interesting artist and he has a signature yamaha guitar. check out black light burns and remember that limp bizkit is only music and it was fun music in a way, because it was musically cool and lyrically poor/hilarious. and actually one of my highlights of the last 7 years was doing 'rollin' at a karoake bar.
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