Fun Facts Rock Chocolate Starfish by Limp Bizkit

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Did you know that Limp Bizkit named their third studio album as a reference to The Beatles? Or the music video that was banned from MTV due to controversial imagery? What about the feud between front-man Fred Durst and legendary artist Trent Reznor? Stick around and we'll answer these questions and more on...

10 Things You Didn't Know About Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit

10 Fun Facts About Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit

1. Limpdependence Day

The album was supposed to be called Limpdependence Day. However, this title was discarded when the band was unable to produce the album in time for a July 4th release date.

(Independence Day clip)

clip fred durst speech with independence day speech?

2. Sgt. Durst's Lonely Hot Dog Club Band

While many people are aware of the double ententre meaning behind the Chocolate Starfish moniker, fewer are aware of the origin of the album title, or that it is an absolute reference to a popular Beatles album.

"He (Durst) made up Chocolate Starfish and... I made up Hot Dog Flavored Water in a truck stop, when we were looking at those bottles of Crystal geyser flavored water. And they didn't have hot dog-flavored water or meat-flavored water... it was late at night and we were talking a bunch of garbage. And Chocolate Starfish obviously means an asshole... Fred calls himself Chocolate Starfish because people call him an asshole all the time. So it's like a band name... Kind of like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." - Wes Borland, Guitar World Presents Nu-metal, Brad Tolinski, Pg 104 (Apr 28, 2002)

(Apu: "I'm sgt pepper's lonely heart club band!")

3. Shameless Self Promotion

Durst references the album title in three songs: "Livin It Up," "Hot Dog," and "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"

"Livin' It Up", where he declares that "The chocolate starfish is my man Fred Durst" (Wes Borland has stated in an interview when questioned on the naming of the album that "Fred calls himself Chocolate Starfish, because people call him an asshole all the time"[7]), "Hot Dog", where he tells his detractors to "Kiss my starfish, my chocolate starfish," and "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" where he mentions "Chocolate Starfish" in the introduction.

4. 46 Fs

The f word is used 46 times in the song "Hot Dog." Which kind of reminds me of the time South Park aired a Season 5 episode in 2001 where the word "shit" was uttered over 150 times. By the end of the episode, the word had lost all of it's edge and meaning. Oddly enough, producers at Comedy Central were against the idea of the S word being mentioned a few times but when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to up the ante to 150, the producers were suddenly fine with it.

Now that I draw the comparison, I'm kind of surprised that Eric Cartman never got to meet Fred Durst in an episode of South Park. I think that they could either be very good buddies or they might drive each other nuts.
The song "Hot Dog" features the word "fuck" 46 times; Durst points out in the lyrics "if I say fuck 2 more times that's 46 fucks in this fucked up rhyme".

(South Park movie)

5. Co-Writer Trent Reznor

6. Get Your Lawsuit On

7. Zoolander Cameo

8. Stone Cold Rock

9. Banned From MTV

Bonus: Playboy Mansion Party

Bonus: World Trade Center

10. This Music Video Will Self Destruct

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_Starfish_and_the_Hot_Dog_Flavored_Water

fred durst : give peace a chance, MTV (Sept 29, 2001) - https://web.archive.org/web/20150420003806/http://www.mtv.com/bands/d/durst_fred/news_feature_092901/index2.jhtml

Guitar World Presents Nu-metal, Brad Tolinski, Pg 104 (Apr 28, 2002)

Reznor Nails New Record Down, NME (Nov 30, 2000) - https://www.nme.com/news/music/nine-inch-nails-182-1394215

Wes Borland Q&A, Kerrang!, No. 1227, (Sep 2008) - referenced through wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_Starfish_and_the_Hot_Dog_Flavored_Water

The most In-Depth Wes Borland Interview Ever... Johnny Christ, Drinks With Johnny (Jun 21, 2021) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD_W6bK_OBg

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-24-ca-22790-story.html

https://www.mtv.com/news/7mvrh0/durst-dishes-on-new-limp-lp-at-playboy-party

https://www.loudersound.com/features/remembering-the-time-limp-bizkit-took-over-the-playboy-mansion-for-the-release-of-chocolate-starfish-and-the-hot-dog-flavored-water