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— by Corey Moss
One day last year, Fred Durst's infant son, Dallas, found one of his dad's journals and opened it up. Durst bent down and read the page his son had opened to: "The future is easy because it doesn't exist, but the past is hard because it lasts forever."
Perhaps he spoke too soon, or maybe Durst is quite the optimist, but at that time the future looked anything but easy. A few months earlier, guitarist Wes Borland quit. Borland had been instrumental in crafting the band's music, look and even artwork, and his departure left a sizable hole in Limp Bizkit's creative core. For fans, the loss of the group's most respected player left them skeptical about whether Bizkit should even continue.
On top of that, in the wake of September 11, all signs pointed to popular music moving away from the angst-fueled nü-metal Limp Bizkit helped pioneer with three hugely successful albums. Still, Durst felt confident enough to allow MTV News extraordinary access to the recording process of their fourth studio album.
(Click for exclusive photos.)
In the subsequent 16 months, cameras caught everything from Dallas mumbling his first words ("What's up, dawg?") to Ministry guitarist Al Jourgensen guzzling wine (and mumbling just the same) to the actual making of the music.
The future, as it turned out, was not easy, but Limp Bizkit rolled on and finished one of the most anticipated albums in recent years. It would take a lengthy book to chronicle the experience — every guest musician, every female obsession, every battle, every agreeance (wink, wink) — but "MTValbumLAUNCH," premiering Monday at 6 p.m. ET/PT, will give you a window on the experience like you've never had before. Here, we have boiled down the epic to seven key events caught on camera that helped shape Results May Vary:
DJ Lethal declares the death of rap-rock
Anxious to start writing the follow-up to Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, Limp Bizkit move into a Beverly Hills house that Durst dubs the Pink Palace.
No one quite knows where to go with the direction of the music, but DJ Lethal, who probably had the most to do with the band's hip-hop influence, is adamant about leaving behind the genre-defining Limp Bizkit sound of the past.
"Some bands out there, I'm not going to say who, they just milked it. Hip-hop, rock, hip-hop, rock, keyboards, scratching," Lethal says, screeching his voice as he pretends to milk a cow. "It's done. It's time to move on."
Coincidentally, one of Borland's main reasons for leaving Limp Bizkit was his lack of interest in the rap element of the band's sound.
Durst discovers 'Behind Blue Eyes'
After writing a hodgepodge of songs and moving their gear into a studio, Limp Bizkit decide to record some covers in hopes of rediscovering the spark behind their breakthrough remake of George Michael's "Faith."
The band toys with Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Love and Rockets' "No New Tale to Tell," but Durst remains unsatisfied. Then one afternoon while working out, he hears the Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" and instantly connects with the lyrics about feeling misunderstood.
"These words are really how I feel right now," he says before reciting a line he feels particularly close to: "No one knows what it's like/ To be hated/ To be fated."
Before he finishes the song, which will be the album's second single, Durst adds a new verse: "No one knows what it's like/ To be mistreated/ To be defeated/ Behind blue eyes."
"Sometimes I don't give a f---, but most of the time I do give a f---," Durst says about the public's perception of him. "I just hope there's some point where all this hating goes away."
Britney Spears blows off Durst at Sundance
An album's worth of music has been done for several weeks by this point, but not even a cross-country road trip to Florida and New York can inspire Durst to finish the lyrics.
In December he takes a break from Limp Bizkit material to produce two songs for Britney Spears. The two hit it off, and after a few romantic encounters in Los Angeles, he flies to Park City, Utah, to visit her at the Sundance Film Festival.
Spears, however, shows little interest in him there, so Durst returns 18 hours later and, having found his muse, heads straight for the studio to write and record "Just Drop Dead."
"Not only were you kissin'/ This fool you've been dissin'," he screams on the song. "You were playing me out/ Now you better listen/ What the f--- is going on?/ Who the f--- do you think you are, bitch?"
Durst's bitterness toward Spears escalates tenfold when she later tells Carson Daly she barely knew Fred.
"I can't believe I let that girl hurt my feelings like that. What a dumb ass. What was I thinking?" Durst says, later adding, "I'm emotional about things sometimes, and love happens to have been something that's been playing a wild hand with me my whole life."
Though "Just Drop Dead" ultimately does not make the album, the experience opens the floodgates for Durst's emotionally charged lyrics and inspires other songs such as "Let Me Down" and "Lonely World."
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