Nookie (song)
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| Single by Limp Bizkit from the album Significant Other |
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| Released | August 24, 1999 | ||||
| Recorded | 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Nu metal, Rapcore | ||||
| Length | 4:26 | ||||
| Producer | Fred Durst | ||||
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"Nookie" is the first single released from the album Significant Other by Limp Bizkit. It is their second biggest hit behind Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle).
One of the reasons lead singer Fred Durst attributes to the song becoming a success is that it's sung slower, and in a fashion where his lyrics are easier to understand, in contrast to Three Dollar Bill Y'all's rapcore style, where the lyrics in some songs are indistinguishable due to the fast screaming style Fred uses on the album.
The song is about Fred Durst's relationship with a past girlfriend, in which she used him for his money, and cheated on him with his friends, and yet he continued to stay with her despite the emotional distress this caused. The hook reveals his reason for staying in the relationship, which was because of the sex. "Hey, what the hell, what you want me to say?/ I won't lie, that I can't deny/ I did it all for the nookie"
In the song's music video, the band allowed hundreds of fans to participate, playing the song in front of the large crowd. All the men went to one side of the stage, and the women on the other side. When Durst sang the chorus, at certain parts he would hold out his microphone to the crowd, getting that particular side to sing. This was, according to Durst, to show that "guys go off hard, but girls go off even harder". The audio from this plays during the music video. At the end of the music video, Fred Durst is arrested, and taken away by police officers for no apparent reason.
The song was memorably performed live on the first day of programming of MTV's "Isle of MTV", their summer 1999 promotion. At the conclusion of the song, Durst detonated a ship sitting out in the water a few hundred yards from the stage.
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[edit] Tracklisting
- "Nookie" - 4:28
- "Counterfeit" (Lethal Dose Remix) - 4:28
- "Counterfeit" (Phat Ass Remix) - 5:36
- "Nookie" (video)
- "Faith" (video)
[edit] Covers
- Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this as a Lounge version on his 2000 album called, "Lounge Against the Machine" and his 2006 album called, "The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese".
[edit] Parodies
- A parody version of the song as sung by Cookie Monster was created, called Cookie.
- Amy Poehler parodies the song in an edition of "Weekend Update" in a past episode of SNL.
- A parody circling around the internet called "I did all for the wookie" has also been created.
- Christian Parody Band Apologetix did a Parody entitled, "Simp Lizkut." It appeared on their Album Keep the Change
- Atom Films has a version called "Pokee" sung by a fictional band called "Wimp Pizzed Kid" highlighting his frustration in losing and acquiring a Pokemon toy to show to his friends.
[edit] Additional Notes
- For "Nookie", guitarist Wes Borland used a custom built baritone guitar with only four strings: tuned nearly an octave downward from standard tuning, the string's pitches were F#, F#, B and E. For the lowsest F# string (which is one octage lower than the higher F# tuned string), Borland made this string a bass guitar string. This technique of using bass guitar strings as the lowest strings on a guitar would later go on to be explored by technical metal band Meshuggah for their 8 string guitars. Borland also plays this particular guitar in the music video for the song.
- Scott Borland, Wes Borland's brother, plays keyboard on the song.
- The video was directed by Fred Durst.
- The song (unknown if intentional or not) mentions the Eve 6 song Inside Out with the lyrics "Put my tender, heart in a blender, and still I surrendered"
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