Nookie

I caught my daughter’s listening to it

And I was just like--

Whoa there

This is not a song for you

And they were like--

Dad, we’re thirteen

And I was like--

Holy--

It had not--

I mean, it had not occurred to--

Of course

I know how old my daughters are

But it had just--

I think--

Let’s back up

I think over time

We’ve sort of--

Honored the boy bands

And the pop stars

Acknowledged, uh,

How much they meant

To a certain--

To, you know, the TRL generation

But we’ve sort of...erased…

Limp Bizkit

And, uh, yeah

There are reasons

For that

Good reasons

Understandable

Reasons

I was a big fan of theirs

And then one day--

I think anyone

Would have a hard time telling you

When exactly

They stopped being

A Limp Bizkit fan

It just sort of happens

But it does happen

And when it does

You, uh, you put a lot of

Those songs

And that music

Just--

Just totally

Out of your mind

So when I heard my daughters

Listening to “Nookie”

I was like--

It was like

They found a dirty pile of magazines

I used to look at or something

Uh, it was--

Pretty jarring

And they just thought

It was stupid

Uh, they saw right through it

They were like--

Dad, this song is so bad

You liked this?

And you want to argue with them

But, uh--

Have you heard “Nookie” lately?

It, uh, it--

Does not hold up

Not at all

It just sounds like--

Well, it sounds like

Who it was made for

A bunch of teenage boys

Who are angry at nothing

And want everybody to believe

They’re getting laid all the time

When they’re not

It just sounds so...sad

And I mean I’m still angry

And I still have no reason to be angry

And I still want everybody to believe

I’m getting laid all the time

...And I’m not

So there was a part of me

Hearing that song

That, for a second,

Was like--

Oh man, I used to love this song

And then I looked at my daughters

Listening to the song

And looking at me

And looking at me listening to the song

And I thought--

Oh man…

I used to love this song