Auditory Abominations: "Bawitdaba" - Kid Rock

I am digging up the oddest things this time around aren't I? Seriously, what kind of song is named after nonsense? ...Does "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" need to be acquainted with this? ...That's what I thought.

So anyway, Kid Rock, or as he introduces himself KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID KID ROCK! yeah, what a strange creation he is, a redneck rockstar cowboy pimp rapper, or at least that is what he likes to parade himself around as. I don't really have a whole lot of thoughts on Kid Rock, I try to avoid listening to music I don't like whenever possible, but this proves that I can't avoid everything forever, so here we go. I'm going with this song because it was the first song on the album that made him big, so why not?

For some reason, this song begins with build-up, or maybe it's just the video. Yeah, thing about YouTube again is, sometimes you get "bonuses" for selecting a video, like an actual music video that plays like a mini movie or something like what Weezer did with "Buddy Holly", the fact that I just mentioned a Disney song and a Weezer song within three paragraphs of a Kid Rock review is sad.

Anyway, the song actually begins with Kid Rock introducing himself as, that up there ^ and giving us the only part of the song we will remember. I can't believe I'm doing this, but I looked up the lyrics to this song, crazy I know. Yeah, the opening lyrics we are given pretty much nonsense, "Bawtidaba da bang, da bang diggy diggy diggy/ Diggy, shake the boogie, said up jump the boogie".
Yeah, that is uh, a group of lyrics or something, but oh well, let's see the actual song.

"And this is for the questions that don't have an answer/The midnight glancers, and the topless dancers/The can of freaks, cars packed with speakers/The G's with the forty's and the chicks with beepers".

Alright, maybe I'm missing something, but so far it sounds as though this is both a shout out track and a call out track. A shout out track is basically a song that is a shout out to someone or a group of people usually people who inspired the writer or artist, a call out track is essentially the opposite of that. Hold on, let's go to the glorious interwebs to find what this song is actually about, I'm am researching deep meaning of a Kid Rock song, what has my life become?

Okay, this is apparently a Mosh Pit anthem. Yeah, you know forget the glorious "Ten thousand Fists" this is all you need to get into a mosh pit. Especially one with topless moshers, oh wait shirtless dudes, right. Unless he actually meant strippers, I'm confused again.

Yeah, if this is supposed to be a mosh pit anthem, then the first group of lyrics are basically just shout outs to hookers and meth. So, you know, it has that going for it?

We get another chorus, and seriously, if you want your chorus to be nonsense, at least have your nonsense make some kind of sense. I get that "Bawitdaba" somehow gets people pumped, but then again so does "Break Stuff" and we all know how well that song works. Seriously, what does "Bawitdaba" supposed to even be? "Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy/Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie"?

We get one more lyrical group of call outs or shout outs (honestly I don't know which), and apparently D.B. Cooper is in the crowd. Either that or he just had to write in one infamous criminal and Charles Manson just wasn't iconic enough.

After this, we get an okay instrumental solo. It has the guitar just being played and it doesn't sound awful, even the snippets of the other instruments being played sound okay. This should have been the opening, not the cheap build-up crap. It is however, ruined by one thing, a stupid vocal sample being played over it, it is under the instrumentals, but it is kind of annoying. Then we get one final chorus, and I'm suddenly realizing that I wasted three minutes on a Kid Rock song.

Yeah, this isn't the worst song I covered, but I do think it's one of the worst. It's just lyrical trite, I don't even think anybody was sober when it was written. Honestly, everything else about the track is alright, the instrumentals and vocals work, but the lyrics are this songs biggest failure. And what even is "Bawtidaba" supposed to even mean? I've said nonsense and made-up words but I at least prescribed meaning to them.

Really though, there is just one thing I can say about this song that sums up all of my thoughts.

I'm the Entity of Darkness, and next time I don't think I'll have to use so many more pictures.

Auditory Abominations: "Break Stuff" - Limp Bizkit

Is it too late to start regretting?

I know it might be a moot point to say that Limp Bizkit is not a good band, but this is about analyzing what makes a song bad and what to avoid when making music. Maybe I should include a what-we-learned portion for these blogs, I guess that would mostly consist of don't drone on, don't be utterly pointless and don't be a cover that misses the point.

Anyway, Nu Metal is kind of a genre that has two separate parts to it, on the first side are groups like Korn and Slipknot who are definitely more metal centric than the other part, which include groups like Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine, who are more rap centric. I think it is unfair to lump both sides together as one genre because they really are different, although mirror on each other a lot. It's like difference between Pop-tronic and EDM, they are in the same boat, but are still different genres. The whole Nu Metal and Rap Metal craze began with groups like Korn and Rage Against the Machine, but it really took off after Limp Bizkit entered the scene, spawning off goups like P.O.D. and the like.

Some people would say that this band started off good, and then became utter shite, but personally I think they were hit or miss to begin with, I mean I don't hate "Nookie", is it a great song? No, but at the same time it isn't awful. I can see why people like that song at the very least, and from the opening guitar riff, I can see why people would like this song. Then, Fred Durst begins rapping, which sounds as if you castrated Eminem. Also something I'm noticing quick is that, the vocal track and the instrumental track don't really connect properly. By that I mean, they sound as though they were just thrown together from completely different songs.

The instrumentals are actually pretty good, as in really good, like I could hear some of this on legitimate metal tracks, Alt. Metal for sure, but still metal. The guitar just hits that right spot and sounds great, and those drums keep nice rhythm. With a different song, these instrumentals could work nicely.

However, one bad apple can spoil the whole patch, and in this case that rotten, squishy apple that you don't understand how it got into the bin and made you have to toss away some potentially good apples, is Fred Durst.

However, the consistent swearing isn't helping, I listen to all this music on YouTube, because why would I want to buy a song I don't like? The problem with that is, often times the channels, for some reason, censor a lot of swearing in songs, which in some cases really hurts the song such as in "Killing in the Name", and I'll get to the censored version of the song "F*ck You" eventually. I understand radio edits, but why YouTube? I literally heard the AVGN drop the C word once and that remains uncensored. These censors are really noticeable and stick out like a sore thumb. Sorry, just had to rant a bit.

Then we get the chorus, and by all things dark and mysterious, they managed to screw it up. How? By making it too repetitive and monotonous. It may not last long, but that doesn't matter when listening to it feels like the Wrath of Kahn. Except without the humorous screaming of his name.
DUUUUURRRRRSSSSSTT!!!!!

I tried, anyway, after the chorus we get some slower part that is sadly the only bit that actually feels as though the vocal track and instrumental track actually mix. It still sucks because it is just Fred Durst sing-speaking about, what else, calling somebody to a fight, or warning them to back-off. Although I will admit, the build-up is pretty nice, and then it actually becomes a half-way decent song. I'm serious, this part of the song should have been made into the whole song, I mean you can still have the awful rap verses, just ditch the chorus and make it this whole "Give me something to break" bit and this might have been a Meh level song.

Actually, the ending chorus isn't that bad either, although this one is mostly because of the instrumentals. Seriously, the instrumentals are really good, and it's a shame that they were wasted on a song like this. While there are good things about it, it does not stand on it's own.

I can see why people enjoy this song, and I'll even go so far to say that I even get why people like this song. However, I myself just can't get passed Fred's annoying voice, the repetitive chorus, the excessive swearing, even if it wasn't censored it would still be an issue, and how poorly the vocal track and instrumentals mesh together, the two are like oil and water.

Well, glad that this nightmare is over, let's see what's next. How did this Banana get into my pocket?

Auditory Abominations: "Satellite" - P.O.D.

Let's talk about mixing genres, such as rap and metal. This is not a new concept, in fact if you consider the old school 70s hard rock bands as heavy metal, than Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" is kind of the frontrunner to it all, and than we also had Anthrax doing their crossover with Public Enemy and other bands like Rage Against the Machine and Old school Linkin Park. The idea of mixing genres has always been around and it often creates some odd combinations, such as P.O.D.

P.O.D. is a Christian Rap Metal band with a touch of reggae. So this is technically the first religious abomination, but as I said when I reviewed the album, nothing is bad on it's own because of the fact that it is religious, there are some songs by religious groups that I actually like. I say this now as a statement to save my own behind because, I think P.O.D. is one of my least favourite metal bands, alongside groups like Skillet and a few Grindcore bands.

The song I chose is Satellite, which I don't think is their worst song, but was the only song I thought was worth remembering off of the album.

Immediately we are hit with drums and guitars and they don't sound bad, a little generic but not terrible, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the rapping, as it sounds ubber generic. In fact that is the problem with the song on it's own.

The whole song feels like one of those songs you'd have in a video game soundtrack that just kind of blends in with what's happening, but unlike something like "Pedal to the Metal", it wouldn't stick out and just be over when it stops, you know the ones that I'm talking about they plague a lot of racing games.

Really I think the biggest problem with the song isn't even the song itself. This was the sixth track on the album and it was the point where a lot of the songs and instrumentals especially, started to sound very similar and generic.

Really this song is just dull and boring. It offers nothing and the chorus is just repeating the song title, Because That Worked Out Well Before*

I think maybe I'll take another crack at this group at a later time, but right now I'm finished with Metal Abominations. What's Next?

God, Damn it all.

I'm the Entity of Darkness and I really hate the upcoming song.

*Each word is a separate link to click on!