Fred Durst, of the famed Limp Bizkit band, is a speech therapist. You can see him wearing his signature red hat.
Fred Durst is reciting the lyrics to the Limp Bizkit song, “My Generation,” to which the lyrics during the pre-chorus are:
So go ahead and talk shit, talk shit about me
Go ahead and talk shit about my g-g-generation
The last word, “generation,” repeats the first letter twice before saying the word fully, for musical effect in the song. However, since in this comic, Fred Durst is a speech therapist, he is saddened to hear his patient repeat the first letter, as the effect resembles a stutter, which would signify a failure on Fred’s goal as a speech therapist.
The intentional stutter on the g in generation, as well as being present in some other words and verses, is meant as a kind of self - referential mocking of what someone hopped up on amphetamines sounds like.
It would be a fairly obvious and humorous reference to what many concert and festival goers would be used to. Stuttering and slurred speech were/are common effects of significant usage of the kinds of drugs they’d all be familiar with.
The Who’s manager at the time was insistent that Daltrey mimic Hooker’s stammering vocal. “Kit Lambert came up to me and said ‘STUTTER!’,” Daltrey recalled. “I said ‘What?’ He said, ‘Stutter the words.”
When the singer asked for Lambert’s reasoning as to why he should act out his speech condition in a song, Lambert explained, “It makes it sound like you’re pilled”. He was referring to the trend among the mod subculture with which The Who identified in the 1960s to get hyped up on amphetamine pills before a night out. Daltrey joked that he was already on the pills and followed his manager’s orders.
On its face, without stuttering, the lyrics read as a rebellious screed of the optimistic youth against a corrupt and unfulfilling system.
But the intentional stuttering and slurring makes the whole thing into a tongue in cheek, semi self aware critique of the prevalence of massive drug use amongst the people purporting these ideals, making the song to sound more like a mockery of, or perhaps lament of drug addicts with no productive life who are just coming up with an ideological excuse/explanation for their lifestyle.
Fred Durst, of the famed Limp Bizkit band, is a speech therapist. You can see him wearing his signature red hat.
Fred Durst is reciting the lyrics to the Limp Bizkit song, “My Generation,” to which the lyrics during the pre-chorus are:
The last word, “generation,” repeats the first letter twice before saying the word fully, for musical effect in the song. However, since in this comic, Fred Durst is a speech therapist, he is saddened to hear his patient repeat the first letter, as the effect resembles a stutter, which would signify a failure on Fred’s goal as a speech therapist.
The intentional stutter on the g in generation, as well as being present in some other words and verses, is meant as a kind of self - referential mocking of what someone hopped up on amphetamines sounds like.
It would be a fairly obvious and humorous reference to what many concert and festival goers would be used to. Stuttering and slurred speech were/are common effects of significant usage of the kinds of drugs they’d all be familiar with.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-daltrey-stutter-the-who-song-my-generation/
On its face, without stuttering, the lyrics read as a rebellious screed of the optimistic youth against a corrupt and unfulfilling system.
But the intentional stuttering and slurring makes the whole thing into a tongue in cheek, semi self aware critique of the prevalence of massive drug use amongst the people purporting these ideals, making the song to sound more like a mockery of, or perhaps lament of drug addicts with no productive life who are just coming up with an ideological excuse/explanation for their lifestyle.