Limp Bizkit: The Rise & Fall In 10 Songs
8. Hot Dog
RISE
Hot Dog is one of the more dated tracks from the Bizkit's back catalogue, however, its inclusion in 2000s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water cements the cultural climate at the time. This was the era of South Park just being sweary grade school kids, Jerry Springer and WWF Attitude after all.
Placed directly after the intro of their stellar release, ‘The Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water,’ this track is intended to impress underaged listeners and turn off everyone else. It’s essentially a love letter to the F-bomb. What else would you expect to open an album essentially titled ‘Anus and Semen?’
Featuring homages or parodies to Nine Inch Nails lyrics from the songs, ‘Perfect Drug,’ ‘Closer’ and ‘Burn,’ it has been theorised that Hot Dog is somewhat of a diss track to Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor.
Whether that was the case or not, Hot Dog seals itself with a hard timestamp which indicates what people really enjoyed in mainstream culture in the early noughties American society: and that was simply, ‘how many times can we say the word “f**k” and get away with it?’