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What is Limp Bizkit AIDS and why does Wes Borland have it?

by Tyler Munro

February 4, 2015

Wes Borland has always gotten a pass amongst Limp Bizkit haters. “They’re terrible, but Wes Borland is okay,” they’d say. “He’s pretty good at guitar,” they’d add.

But Limp Bizkit’s third best musician is probably more famous for his latex monkey-suits and closet sized collection of contact lenses than anything.

But that’s neither here nor there. What we want to talk about is a series of statements Borland’s made over the last week or two regarding Limp Bizkit’s upcoming stint on a cruise ship.

“Can’t wait to see me some roided out tribal tattooed spray tanned Jell-O shot filled bohunks do their best drunk MMA impressions in the top deck mosh pit,” he wrote on Instagram.

I’d like to give a shout out now to all the other over-the-hill late nineties/early 2000s bands going on the cruise: Let’s give these people the raging alcohol fueled nostalgia fest they’re paying for guys! I know we can do it if we tune down low enough!

He tried to cover for himself when Metal Insider touched base with him.

“People say, ‘You went back to Limp Bizkit because your other band failed.’ No, those things are not true. I went back to Limp Bizkit because it felt like I couldn’t get it out of my blood. I basically had Limp Bizkit AIDS and was infected. No matter what I did, that was me.”

Which brings us to the defining question: Did Wes Borland just realize Limp Bizkit suck? Or is it possible that the brains behind Big Dumb Face’s Duke Lion Fights the Terror!! is just having a tantrum over his quirky, cooky eccentricity being stifled by the nostalgia train? Or, in this case, boat.