![]() Borland: "Rollin'" was a collaborative effort with this rap beat maker called Swizz Beatz. Their seventh studio album overall, Stampede of the Disco Elephants, is scheduled to drop some time in 2014. ![]() Songfacts: Going back a bit, what do you remember about the writing of the Limp Bizkit song, "Rollin'"?Īlthough their last few albums haven't sold in the vast quantities their earlier releases did (1999's Significant Other, 2000's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water), Limp Bizkit is still quite popular overseas, as evidenced by the band's ability to attract large crowds at recent festivals. He's just one of those off-the-charts people that makes everything seem effortless. Prince is that weird thing where you have an incredible songwriter who's also an incredible showman at the same time. I would say the King isn't Elvis, because he had so many covers, but probably Prince. I, of course, love Trent Reznor - he's a huge deal to me. I really think Fiona Apple is a great songwriter. Songfacts: Who would you say are some of your favorite songwriters?īorland: Wow. And I try not to worry or beat myself up when something like that isn't happening. So when I write songs, when I work, I've gotten to the point of where I don't try to push it unless the big set of "surf" is coming in as far as creativity goes. But it also takes away their waves of creativity, too. A lot of them have manic or bipolar tendencies, and a lot of them have suffered from those symptoms and end up going on medications, like Zoloft or Paxil or things like that to mellow out their highs and lows. Every creative person I know is very moody - most of them are really strange people. It's not like a creative person has this constant output. I think it's them forcing themselves to be creative at a time in which they're just not able or shouldn't be creative like their brain hasn't come up with the correct ideas or the correct way of thinking about what's going on.īecause creativity comes in waves. I don't think it's them not being able to come up with anything. I think that writer's block, even though it may feel the same as what I'm about to explain it as, I don't think that it is what people think it is. ![]() I've gotten to the point in my life where I don't try to push inspiration, because I feel like people talk about there being such a thing as writer's block, and I don't agree. I never know where inspiration is going to come from. Wes Borland: I think that very good songs can be written in numerous different ways. Greg Prato (Songfacts): When it comes to songwriting, is it usually you by yourself, or do you find that you write your best songs as a collaboration? And if you've ever bypassed authority by hopping a fence to shoot video, you'll be happy to know that Wes still does that too. Borland short, as he is really an exceptional musician in his own right, one of the few metal guitarists trying different approaches to the instrument in the modern age.Īnd while he's best known as the six-stringer of rap metallists Limp Bizkit, he also gets his rocks off in a more experimental/unpredictable band that he leads, Black Light Burns, who issued their third album in early 2013, Lotus Island.īorland spoke with us about creating some of Limp Bizkit's most popular songs, and explained why "writer's block" is just an ebb in the tides of a creative mind. Could Wes Borland be the best guitarist of the make-up'd/masked set? Quite possibly, but that would be selling Mr. ![]()
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