For My Sunday Song #431, we are talking about the notoriously loved and hated band Limp Bizkit and their 2021 song “Dad Vibes”. The song is the first single from their album ‘Still Sucks’ which was released on October 31, 2021. The album was announced back in 2012 and with delay after delay with being dropped from the label, member changes, partying problems and the such, it became their ‘Chinese Democracy’. In July 2021, the band debuted “Dad Vibes” as the final song of the 2021 Lalapalooza set and 3 months later, the album dropped.
The song was written by Fred Durst, Sam Rivers, John Otto and Wes Borland and it is classic Limp Bizkit. Full of self-deprecating humor, the song is basically a parody of the band. We are 24 years past their debut in 1997 and now these guys are so much older and dads now. They are still wearing the pants that sag (even more so now that they older). Now, they aren’t just a band, they are a franchise and they are still cool whether you can live with them or not, they don’t care as they still have the swagger they always have had. They don’t give two fucks whether you like them or not and they are going to do their own thing. Heck, their tours are still drawing large crowds.
Musically, it has a killer beat, some drum loops that drive the song forward. Wes Borland’s riffs are killer and are as heavy as ever. Fred Durst spits out the lyrics in his same old cocky-ass style and you want to punch him in the face…and that my friends is the charm of this band. A great song to crank while driving down the road as I have my own dad vibes (I’m even older than these guys, but my pants don’t sag). What people miss from these guys that it is all in jest and fun…they are serious about their music, but they have fun with it too.
Give the song a listen and let me know what you think. I know this band is hated by a lot of people, but I don’t care. They are simply a fun band and doing their own thing…I respect that. Now this Dad is going to go and walk out of here with a swagger!!
“Dad Vibes”
Check out your dad with the swag on the floor
Momma gonna brag when I walk in the door
Y’all ain’t ever seen a guerrilla in the mist
Walk the line so fine with a blindfold (Uhh)
Keep in mind though
Hot dad riding in on a rhino
Got the roll-under-rap with the dad vibes
Now everybody bounce with the franchise (C’mon)
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Damn, this dad like a river
Flow so cold, need ice to deliver
Drop so hard like a rock (Like a rock)
Dad don’t stop (Don’t stop)
So damn clean, he a mop (Sugar)
Sugar cane (Cane)
Down with the mane (Mane)
Dad so sweet that his nickname candy
Y’all been gone for a minute (Yeah)
Dad vibe bounce to the finish
I can get with that
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah
La-di-da
Nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah
Now shut up, here we go again
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Can’t live with ’em
Can’t live without ’em
New kid back on the block with a R.I.P. (or riff)
Dad got the sag in the back with a drip
Come and get a sip
La-di-da
Writer(s): John Everett Otto, William Frederick Durst, Wesley Louden Borland, Sam Rivers
