#BEST PUDDLE OF MUDD ALBUM MOVIE#
Dude!Ĭollectively the Mudd are the band Hollywood would cast if it were doing a movie about nu-metal. There's no charisma to obscure his midwestern openness, so no sooner has he worked himself into a sweating lather wailing, "She fucking hates me, she tore my feelings and ripped them away," than he is telling us it's "totally cool" to be in London. But Scantlin is likable none the less, guilelessly pushing through ponderous songs in the testosterone-heavy rasp common to nu-metal singers. If you're a puddle of mud, the only way must be up, and blond singer Wes Scantlin, who looks like a Tommy Hilfiger model, seems to be enjoying the journey.Ĭompared with other singers in the genre, there's little interaction with the public - no somersaulting into the crowd or inviting fans on stage to sing. Perhaps unintentionally, there's something life-affirming about their formulaic negativity (which boils down to: authority figures are bad, individuality is good and girls are capricious and unfaithful).
They have been a big hit, and if their album, Come Clean, continues its trajectory, they can soon expect to be playing arenas.
Since that's not an option, they have taken their vintage whine to the youth of America with the help of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, who signed the Kansas City fourpiece to his Flawless Records. Puddle of Mudd's "issues", spelled out in such self-explanatory howls as She Hates Me and Drift and Die, are nothing that couldn't be resolved by a few years of National Service. A nother nu-metal day, another gang of hairy complainers with self-esteem problems.