Word: bizkit
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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Haikus are usually inspired by nature. But that makes writing haikus--three-line Japanese poems with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern--easy. Writing poetry when you have to spend your days listening to Bill Clinton or Limp Bizkit--that's hard. We asked some people thus employed to write a haiku about autumn...
...your report about pay-for-play on the radio [SHOW BUSINESS, Aug. 3], you gave a false impression of the Flip Records/Interscope band Limp Bizkit. Although in the spring of 1998 Flip/Interscope did have a pay-for-play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold...
Infighting between bands on this fall's Family Values tour has reached a Faulknerian level of dysfunction. Scheduled to perform are heavy-metal favorites KoRn, Orgy and Limp Bizkit, but one relative off the roster is ROB ZOMBIE, pictured below. Two weeks ago, members of KoRn claimed they kicked Zombie off the tour for, among other transgressions, "not exemplifying the community spirit of the trek." They replaced him with German band Rammstein, with whom they share "a great mutual love and respect." Last week Zombie fired back, saying he quit the tour because he was being prevented from staging...
...Limp Bizkit is attracting less attention for its music than for one way the group made its breakthrough. In April its label, Flip/Interscope, signed an unprecedented contract with radio station kufo of Portland, Ore., agreeing to pay $5,000 in exchange for 50 plays of Bizkit's single Counterfeit. "Pay-for-play," as this kind of arrangement is called, is a controversial new twist on the old, discredited practice known as payola: instead of letting songs rise or falter on their merits in the tough record marketplace, some labels are improving the odds by paying radio stations cash to play...
...these tactics pay off? On the evidence so far, it's doubtful. While pay-for-play can give singles a push, its impact on album sales--where record companies make their real money--seems limited. Limp Bizkit's album, after getting an initial boost from pay-for-play, has sunk to the bottom quarter of the Billboard 200. Whatever success the band has had owes more to its many live performances...