Limp Bizkit and Ed Sheeran teamed up for a live cover of The Who's Behind Blue Eyes. The pop superstar and the nu-metal icons were both featured on the lineup of the Netherlands' festival PinkPop over the weekend and took advantage of the unusual crossover between audiences to join forces to pay tribute to a mutual influence. A snippet of the performance can be viewed below.
The addition of Sheeran added a fresh twist to the cover, which was a hit for Limp Bizkit in 2003 and features on their record Results May Vary. The cameo from Sheeran was just the latest in a run of appearances alongside rock bands of late, with the global pop icon having also appeared with The Offspring at Bottle Rock Festival where we played guitar and sang a duet with Dexter Holland on the track Million Miles Away from The Offspring record Conspiracy of One. Sheeran also performed live with The Darkness late last year, contributing guitar and vocals to Love Is Only A Feeling.
That performance followed a much-touted collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon and a yet-to-be-released, yet highly anticipated original composition with Cradle Of Filth.
Following the performance with Limp Bizkit, Wes Borland took to social media to post a selfie backstage with Sheeran.
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst believes that Limp Bizkit do not write music for jocks. Durst commented on a recent appearance on comedy legend Bill Maher's Club Random podcast. Discussing the rather angry jock energy of the turn of the century nu-metal explosion that saw Limp Bizkit rise to worldwide prominence, Durst opened up about his own experiences as a target of bullying.
"I was bullied my whole life. Tortured, bullied… I was really this peon kid in my city, at school, and ultimately the vehicle I used to put behind Limp Bizkit was, 'Oh, man, I'll use this microphone to fight these guys back!' But the irony was: the bullies who tortured me were dressing like me in the audience. So this massive art project turned into the most ironic thing… and here I am 25 years later going, 'Wow, this is unbelievable!'
Durst has also become a streaming star, of sorts, in the last few years, with Limp Bizkit playing a key role in the popular documentary film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage and similarly themed Netflix series Trainwreck: Woodstock '99.
Limp Bizkit released the album Still Sucks in October, 2021. They released the 'unofficially official' video for Dad Vibes that April. The long-awaited visual accompaniment to the single daddest song to ever nu-metal is indeed peak dad. Featuring the members of Limp Bizkit and Steel Panther busting out their best dad moves while dressed in their best dad drip.
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