Why was nu metal hated so much? You could argue that the style and aesthetic "hasn't aged well" today, but even 20 years ago most people (especially in the broader metal community) despised it. Do most people just associate it with limp bizkit? Is it too hip hop for metal fans and too metal for hip hop fans?
Why was nu metal hated so much? You could argue that the style and aesthetic "hasn't aged well" today...
Now that i think about it, the last time MTV was relevant was when nu metal was at it's peak.
Not metal.
It's the working class male youth energy which is always under attack
nu metal was associated with angst filled rage filled white boys with spiky hair and frat bros.
Think about it, a music journalist hipster nerd experinced kurt cobain, limp bizket and linken park is just complete shit by comparison
kurt cobain, limp bizket and linken park
Exact same ballpark, exact same poser SHIT.
no it wasnt, kurt was a social justice warrior ahead of his time, whining about masculinity and sex and white men.
the exact opposite of frat bros
Don't give a SHIT. Music's not for pathetic politics. The music's equally fake and manufactured in all those bands.
Limp Bizkit is probably the greatest band ever to create music.
Why are people suddenly pretending nu metal was good? Is it zoomers and their anti elitism?
its rap with a guitar. that doesnt make rap any better
Drink the piss suck the dick.
But rap with guitars can be done with taste.
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Not a knock on nu-metal, some of which I actually enjoy, though most of it seems especially made for angsty teen edgelords. Which itself really needs an academic examination, why was so much popular western art between 1990-2010 made by and for edgelords?
I think most people see Linkin Park on a better light than Nu Metal itself.
It sucked
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Most don't even call linkin park nu metal because they know what a bad reputation nu metal has.
I like to listen to music. It's all about me anyways so whatever. Or her.
Because it was white guys acting like they were black in a genre heavily populated by white guys. Same reason black country music artists are rare. Same reason blacks hated Eminem at first.
Anything new is hated by metalheads as not being "real" metal unless it is more obscure or extreme than whatever came before it. It didn't help that nu metal had some hip hop and rap influence with limp bizkit being the poster child for a goofball in a white tee and a bunch of wannabe aggro tough guy wannabe gangsta "rhymes" behind equally idiotic music. The main demographic was fat suburban middle schoolers which added an extra layer of cringe. It is to metal music as a whole what beatdown hardcore is to hardcore. Take all the tryhard in your face mosh energy and repackage it for a wider audience and you get nu metal. It is 80s hair metal but filtered through late 90s and early 00s angst.
That's an absurd amount of cope bro
Limp Bizkit just got hate because people over-assumed how serious they were with their whole shtick. They never deserved respect (people pretend Wes borland was a genius but he wasn't) but they deserved to be dismissed as silly rather than as some sort of affront to decency.
Korn, Deftones and the worst offenders by far: Linkin Park, their music was very explicitly going out of its way to appeal to a teenage audience at the oldest, which would have been fine if they were like A7X who were having fun with it, but Chester and Shitnonda actually thought lyrics like "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP" were profoundly sentimental. Older millennials and Gen Xers eventually realized this shit and "meh, gay!" and moved on. Good luck getting 90s babies to do that. Especially considering most of them also thought narcissistic queers like Juicewrld were actually deep.
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JPEGMAFIA did a pretty good job with it in his last album
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I could easily punch that retards lights out.
Because it was too different from all the stuff that came before.
It really wasn't
It was. Guitars were heavily downtuned, no guitar solos, hip hop influences. It made elitist metalheads seethe.
I had the dickies khakis, bubble jacket and the red ball cap fit, silver chain hanging out at the mall with frens scheming on girls and then mom would drive me home.
It was mallcore and I'm damn glad to have lived through it
there were 1000 people who hated this shit for being petulant and stupid for every 1 metal purist.
As a trend it lasted less than 2 years in the mainstream and was kept afloat by twelvies.
Also downtuned guitars with no solos was nothing new as far as metal was concerned.
Funny how people hated on nu-metal and post-grunge and wanted it to all die out. But what did these people replace it with? Hipster indie "rock" shit that was 1000 times worse.
Nobody is happy in [current era] even when there in a paradise like the y2k era with the best music ever made
there is always like 50% of people shitting on whatever is popular because it's new and different.
It encouraged middle class white kids to act like trailer trash and wiggers.
Hipster indie "rock" shit that was 1000 times worse.
Ty Segall was way better than any of those baggy jeaned wiggers
Nu metal wasn't really disliked until it started going out of fashion. Most metalheads would rock out to Slipknot, even if they preferred Slayer or even Metallica.
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it was american genre
music industry is very anti-american
pretty much every american genre is hated for no reason other than it's american
nu-metal
emo
glam metal
brostep
90s pop punk
90s ska punk
was
still is hated
All of the takes in this thread that try to invalidate people's distaste for nu-metal are delusional but holy fuck.
Yes. Brain dead (lack of) riffs tell the real story. Numetal was always downtuned pop rock with hip hop influences.
metalheads would rock out to Slipknot
True, but Slipknot was the most metal of the nu-metal bands.
A lot of it was indeed kinda trashy & shitty. But also:
• not metal enough to be respected by metalheads
• not rappy enough to be respected by niggers & wiggers
• too rappy to be respected by rock fans
• too low brow, masculine, and oriented towards the frustrations of young white males to be respected by hipsters
But in retrospect, there was nothing exceptionally bad about it relative to other pop phenomena and some of it has actually aged somewhat well.