During a recent interview with Dazed, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst opened up about the true meaning behind the band’s 1999 track “Nookie.“ According to him, the song is more about love than sex.
Durst said the following:
“The funny thing about that though, nobody listened to the story in ‘Nookie‘ they just listened to the 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. I was very much a vulnerable person in that world and I couldn’t believe it even happened. So I fell in love and then this person was sleeping with other people and people would say ‘Fred, you’re so upset, why are you staying?’ and I’d say ‘because, we made love’ and I found a different way to say that: I did it all for the nookie. That sounded more fun. So what I did it for then was the love. And what I do it for now is for the love. I have a new daughter, she’s eight months old.”
He continued after the interviewer congratulated him on the birth of his daughter.
“Thank you, her name’s Callie and I’m just living for every moment with her right now. That’s what I’m doing it for now, still doing it for the love.”
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