Significant Other

Limp bizkit are currently US chart toppers. Which is probably good news for anyone who gets off on bands like Faith No More and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. But not for me.

An insipid, shouty mixture of heavy metal powerchords and misguided retreads of the hip-hop blueprint, the appeal of Significant Other presumably lies in its outpouring of teenage aggression and angst.

And fair enough: at times the music and its attendant mood perfectly captures the checkshirted, acne-ridden mundanities of High School life in the Mid West. But this is a supremely uninteresting territory, and very wearing to boot.

At one point Mr. Bizkit screams "It's 1999!" but it could just as easily be 1983, 1997 or 2004.

Welcome to the past, present and future of the American mainstream dream.