10 Rock Albums That Were Ruined By One Song
2. Pink Cellphone - Deftones
Metal has never been known to be the most comfortable genre to get into or anything. Black Sabbath had always been looking to scare you into submission most of the time whenever Tony Iommi played his guitar, and Deftones seemed to have a similar vibe with their disturbing blends of nu metal and atmospheric rock. The sounds of White Pony may have already made you on edge, but they started to go astray on the back half of Saturday Night Wrist.
As much as the rest of the band have talked about how uncomfortable this album was to create most of the time, all of the tension of this record basically could boil down to this one song, with a guest feature that really should not have been part of it to begin with. While Deftones have brought in people like Serj Tankian and Rodleen Getsic in the past, hearing this answering machine message from this woman is more than a little bit uncomfortable, talking about different sexual favors that read more like smut than anything else.
They probably didn't do their international audience any favors either with this song, going through different stereotypes about British people as well that may have been edgy at the time but feels juvenile these days. Deftones had always been known as the band that was a breath of fresh air from all their fellow nu metal acts, but this was the first song where they may have reached the same cringy audiences that acts like Staind may know too well.