P.O.D. had some fairly main hits and data again within the day. Their third studio album, The Basic Components of Southtown from 1999, went Platinum and spawned the hits “Southtown” and “Rock the Celebration (Off the Hook)”; whereas Satellite tv for pc from 2001 went triple Platinum and featured 4 hits – “Alive”, “Youth of the Nation”, “Growth”, and “Satellite tv for pc”.
Regardless of their reputation, P.O.D. by no means fairly caught the nü-metal success wave that their friends in bands like Korn, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, and extra did. P.O.D. vocalist Sonny Sandoval weighed in that in a current interview with Traditional Rock, expressing his confusion about why that could be.
“We’re among the many pioneers on this recreation!” stated Sandoval. “Each time we do a report or play a present, we do not perceive why we do not get the identical respect as bands who got here later. Folks would possibly suppose we have these massive songs, so it is all simply cash within the financial institution, however for some motive we missed that boat. Our mates are enjoying arenas and have cash to burn, however right here we’re proving that you are able to do it.”
Sandoval then touched on the truth that P.O.D. can be in comparison with bands like Physique Rely, Rage In opposition to The Machine, and Limp Bizkit regardless of arising concurrently all these different bands.
“Once we first began, folks would have a look at it like: ‘They’re heavy, however they’re rapping. They should be like Physique Rely,'” stated Sandoval “Then the identical factor occurred with Rage In opposition to The Machine. Then Limp Bizkit comes out and we’re being in comparison with them. ‘Nu steel’ was simply one other identify. Earlier than that it was rap rock, or rapcore… We did not care as a result of we have been simply doing it. Now we embrace it; if somebody says: ‘You are my favorite nu-metal band’, I am simply comfortable to be their favorite [laughs].”
Apparently, Sandoval just lately stated in an interview with The Jesea Lee Present that Limp Bizkit‘s “Nookie” was the tune that made him realiz that nü-metal was going to be enormous. Sandoval stated he felt Bizkit was actually nailing what it meant to be a rock band on the time, but in addition knew deep down that “Nookie” can be the factor that launched 1,000,000 nü-metal bands that perhaps weren’t pretty much as good.
“Once I consider just like the TRL hype, after which I consider the visible and the loopy facet of it, I nonetheless bear in mind, and once more, I did not know what nü-metal was, we did not name it that. However I bear in mind seeing the Limp Bizkit ‘Nookie’ video for the primary time. And it did not matter whether or not I used to be a Limp Bizkit fan or not.
“Once I noticed that, I stated, that is freaking enormous. It encompasses all the things. It encompassed rock and roll, rebel, intercourse. It had all the things. It was simply visually gorgeous. I am not saying that defines nü-metal or classifies it, however I bear in mind considering that no matter this is occurring, it is going to crossover to the pop world and all that stuff.
“Trigger despite the fact that Korn was well-liked on the time, I by no means noticed them as pop. They have been nonetheless darkish and mysterious. Limp Bizkit wasn’t mysterious. They threw all the things on the market and stated, I do not care what you suppose. And in the event you like me or not, and that is what rock and roll was presupposed to be anyway. I do not care what you suppose. And that’s most likely what sparked most of these bands that got here out after that simply have been horrible and determined to go from no matter music they have been into on the time to now, ‘oh, I wanna be in a nü-metal band.'”
Sandoval continued, discussing the eventual fall of nü-metal due to disingenuous artists trying to make a fast buck.
“As soon as bands got here in and type of began to imitate it, I feel that is when it bought oversaturated with guys that it wasn’t their life-style, you recognize? I imply it wasn’t their tradition, you recognize? If you get bands from like no matter – Timbuktu – and abruptly they’re appearing like they’re from the streets. They’re wanting like they’re from the streets they usually’re attempting to rap– it isn’t fairly there, but it surely was, it turned a style.
“What occurs when it turns into well-liked? Folks begin to get it. And I feel, you recognize, folks bought over it after some time. I feel it type of got here and gone and folks threw it away due to the artists that have been doing it or attempting to repeat it as an alternative of trying to the authenticity of it.”
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