In a new interview with Dazed, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst shared his frustration about the wrongly interpreted message in the band’s song ‘Nookie.’
“The funny thing about that though, nobody listened to the story in ‘Nookie’ they just listened to the catchphrase,” he said. The frontman also resembled it to one other song with a popular catchphrase. “It’s like when I say Rage Against The Machine they listen to ‘f*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me,’ they don’t listen to the rest of it.”
“‘Nookie.’ The first time I had been intimate with someone it happened later and I was very much head over heels in love because of that and I was just that guy,” he added.
The Limp Bizkit song is well known in the music world for its name and chorus, seemingly concentrated on sex. Though it doesn’t seem like it with its chorus, the song is a heartfelt track about being in love with someone who was ‘sleeping with other people.’
A closer look at the lyrics reveals the true meaning behind the song, with lines like, “It’s kinda sad, I’m the laughin’ stock of the neighborhood/ And you would think that I’d be movin’ on/ But I’m a sucker like I said/ F*cked up in the head (not)/ And maybe she just made a mistake/ And I should give her a break/ My heart will ache either way.”
You can hear the song live during the band’s live shows supporting Metallica on select dates of their 2025 North American tour in May and June. Before those shows, Bizkit will head out on their own headlining ‘Loserville’ UK/European tour in early spring.
