混蛋和王八羔子 (2000)

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third studio album by American nu metal band Limp Bizkit. It was released on October 17, 2000, through Flip and Interscope Records. The album saw the band capitalize on newfound mainstream attention following the success of their previous album, Significant Other (1999).

The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, selling 1,054,511 copies in its first week and setting a record for the fastest-selling rock album in the country. It ultimately sold over 6.7 million copies in the U.S. alone and earned platinum certifications in 13 countries, selling a further 10 million copies worldwide.

It was the band's last release to feature guitarist Wes Borland until the EP The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005), and the last album to featured the band's classic lineup until Gold Cobra (2011).

Background and recording

In January 2000, Limp Bizkit returned to the studio to capitalize on their mainstream success stemming from Significant Other's release the previous year. The band initially hired Rick Rubin to produce the record, though creative differences culminated in him abandoning the project after less than a week, resulting in Terry Date returning to produce the record. Through multiple interviews, Fred Durst and guitarist Wes Borland often expressed that they had very little material prepared for the writing sessions, with Borland claiming during an interview in January 2000; "I don't think that we entered the studio with a method, or there's like 17,000 methods and we used all of them". Recording sessions took longer than expected as the band regularly experimented with newer material whilst simultaneously touring as headliners in Napster's Back-To-Basics tour. The longtime working title for the album had been Limpdependence Day, but this was abandoned after the band failed to meet the deadline for their original intended release date of July 4. Despite numerous delays, the band managed to compose most of their new songs by August 2000, and debuted the track "Livin' It Up" at that year's MTV Video Music Awards in a duet performance with Christina Aguilera.

Promotion

The band appeared at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards in September 2000 due in large part as they were nominated for multiple awards, and in conjunction with their performance alongside Christina Aguilera. In a mashup of the two artists following Aguilera's performance of her 1999 single "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)", the band played an excerpt of the song "Livin' It Up" possibly hinting at the song being a future single, though this never materialized for unknown reasons. The following weekend, the band announced a radio-broadcast listening party on New York's 92.3 WXRK live from Electric Lady Studios in New York City while they answered questions from callers, and the station played several songs of the album.

To generate further attention for the album's release; the band's management group The Firm hosted a large scale party at the Playboy Mansion in Southern California on the night of the album's release. The band aired a full hour-long special on MTV with numerous celebrities present, such as Chino Moreno from Deftones, David Silveria from Korn, Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray, Brandon Boyd from Incubus, Xzibit and more. Durst had initially approached MTV producers with his proposal for the special, which they later allowed him to cohost per his own request.

They also embarked on a fall co-headlining tour with Eminem called the Anger Management Tour through North America in late 2000, with Papa Roach, Xzibit and D12 acting as support during the first leg through November 21, 2000. On the second leg from November 24 to December 19, 2000, Godsmack, DMX and Sinnistar took over. The tour was unique for its approach to bridging the gap between rock and hip-hop.

Title and artwork

"Chocolate starfish" is a slang term for the human anus. "Hot dog flavored water" is based on an in-joke started by Borland at a truck stop while the band was on tour during the summer of 2000, where he saw bottles of Crystal Geyser flavored water and made a joke about having meat or hot dog-flavored water.

Durst refers to the album name in three songs. First, in "Hot Dog", he tells his detractors to, "Kiss my starfish, my chocolate starfish". Second, in "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)", Durst mentions "Chocolate Starfish" in the introduction. Third, in "Livin' It Up", he declares that, "The chocolate starfish is my man Fred Durst." Borland stated in an interview when questioned on the naming of the album that, "Fred calls himself Chocolate Starfish, because people call him an asshole all the time."

Numerous critics and fans speculated that the name was a humorous parody of the Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

The album's cover art was designed by Borland. It has been featured in several lists of the worst album covers of all time.