The Limp Bizkit hit “Nookie” was the second single from the band’s 1999 album “Significant Other” and remains one of the group’s most successful and popular songs. Frontman Fred Durst recently chatted with Dazed and shared that most fans have glossed over the actual meaning of the song.
“The funny thing about that though, nobody listened to the story in ‘Nookie’ they just listened to the catchphrase,” Durst said. “It’s like when I say Rage Against The Machine’s (‘Killing In the Name’) they listen to ‘f*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me,’ they don’t listen to the rest of it.”
Durst went on to say that the infectious chorus hook actually references one of his first relationships where he stayed with someone that he knew was being unfaithful. “The first time I had been intimate with someone it happened later and I was very much head over heels in love because of that and I was just that guy,” Durst explained. “I was very much a vulnerable person in that world and I couldn’t believe it even happened. So I fell in love and then this person was sleeping with other people and people would say ‘Fred, you’re so upset, why are you staying?’ and I’d say ‘because, we made love.’”
Durst continued: “I found a different way to say that: I did it all for the nookie. That sounded more fun. So what I did it for then was the love. And what I do it for now is for the love. I have a new daughter, she’s eight months old.”
