Fred Durst knows what punters want to hear
Juggling a million things at once, it's the developments of the latest Eastbound & Down episode that is in the foreground of Fred Durst's mind when he answers his phone. "I'm a big fan of Danny McBride and I've been watching it since the get-go. I really enjoy it, man. It's really funny, and it just seems like it's going to be really outrageous," the frontman begins from the midst of an intense recording session.
"I'm doing a little something here with, believe it or not, Billy Ray Cyrus," he says. "He's got this song about paying attention to what's going on in the world and getting your shit together and doing something about it."
It's not a stretch to conclude the song may have something to do with Miley's twerking in August, but when asked his thoughts on the subject, it becomes clear that Billy is probably within earshot. "I think she's doing her own thing, you know, and whatever she's doing is obviously to leave a mark, and it looks like it's working."
Durst spends most of his time in the studio these days, and when he's not working with other artists, he's finalising mixes for the new Limp Bizkit record, which, after numerous release date changes, will finally see the light of day in the first quarter of next year.
But, unlike the Cyrus family, Durst admits Limp Bizkit aren't really expecting to produce career-defining material in Stampede Of The Disco Elephants. "This whole thing of people only touring an album or something to market or push, I mean, realistically, with Limp Bizkit, how many of you guys are going to sit around and want us to play a bunch of songs that no one knows? How many of those songs can we possibly fit into our set without boring the shit out of everybody?"