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— By Joe D'Angelo
Oh, the winter I adore
Summer's gone forever more
Someday she'll come back to me
Seasons change to set me free
— "Down Another Day"
It's hard to believe that such John Mayer-esque lyrics come from a man who, only months ago, likened himself to a chainsaw and threatened to skin your ass raw.
But that's the enigmatic Fred Durst, and Limp Bizkit's new Results May Vary is his most personal album by far. Comparatively mild tunes comprise a third of the album and present the frontman as having actual feelings other than rage, angst and conceit under his omnipresent ball cap. Anger isn't completely absent, mind you — it's just paired with sensitivity, loneliness and warmth.
"I was a reactive person. If I was at war, I would just react," Durst explained, relaxing in MTV's green room before touting Bizkit's new album on "TRL." "My approach to [confrontation] now is past the screaming part. It's 10 times more dangerous to go past that and know what it is that you're trying to express. That can be therapy, and that's what happened to me in a weird way. That's why there is not so much screaming."
Not so much, but not none at all, as the single "Eat You Alive" demonstrates. Durst rips into the chorus like a man possessed, or perhaps obsessed, since the target of the vengeful spit is purported to be Britney Spears, with whom he had a brief, lopsided relationship earlier this year, or Angelina Jolie, whom he only admired from afar.
"The scream in 'Eat You Alive' is like an animalistic, sexual, crazy, primitive roar," he said, sidestepping the issue of who the tune is about. "That song is about that feeling, that desire."
That's the Fred we're used to.
And Results has more of him. "Eat You Alive," "Almost Over," "Creamer (Radio Is Dead)" and "Head for the Barricade" are all seamless successors to 2000's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. So at which end of the spectrum does the true Fred reside?
"I think the true Fred is in every bit of that album," he said assuredly. "You can't put on a certain song and say, 'This is the real me.' I'm me all the time and I'm really comfortable being me. ... Despite how I've grown, there remains a big child inside me. I've never let it out. It's sort of like the rage that lives inside of me. It helps me understand and do what I do."
For an example of the duality that dwells within, he pointed to the movie "Fight Club" — which isn't surprising, since a visual reference to the 1999 film appears inside the new album's cover. Several of Durst's posts on the Limp Bizkit Web site during the lengthy recording process also attest to his affinity for the movie's split-personality narrator, who sometimes is a mild-mannered schmo but at other times, as alter ego Tyler Durden, is a reckless time bomb oozing machismo.
"I have my Tyler ... and it's unpredictable when Tyler will come out," he said.
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