What's better than being signed by and having your first video directed by Fred Durst? Being signed by and having your first two videos directed by him.
Just a week after their debut album, Come Clean, entered the Billboard 200 albums chart at #10, pugnacious nü-grunge band Puddle of Mudd are getting ready to film a video for "Blurry," their second with the Limp Bizkit linchpin.
There's no date or location for the shoot and no plot for the video, though the night of the MTV Video Music Awards Puddle frontman Wes Scantlin said it will go down "real soon."
"We're throwing a couple of different ideas around with Fred," Scantlin said. "He's a really smart guy and he did an awesome job on our first video, 'Control.' We'll both collaborate on everything."
Less kinetic than "Control," "Blurry" starts as a plaintive rock ballad with chiming, delicately strummed guitars before kicking into an anthemic, distorted chorus. Considering the popularity of similarly structured hits like Staind's "It's Been Awhile" and Incubus' "Drive," it seems destined for success. If so, Puddle of Mudd stand a good chance of having two songs on the charts simultaneously, since "Control" has demonstrated major staying power —12 weeks after its release, the track was at #7 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart, tying its peak chart position the prior week. And there's more to come.
"We're probably going to go four singles deep on this record," Scantlin said, "and they'll probably all have videos."
But don't expect Scantlin to milk the 11 songs on Come Clean for the next two years. He's already written most of the band's next record.
"It's pretty much sitting in my back pocket right now," he said, then clarified, "It's not finished as in recorded. It's all in my mind. You sit down with an acoustic guitar and write these songs and put them in your brain. And then you go from there."
