There’s a scenario involving electrocution on “Digital Bath,” car sex on “Passenger,” and haunting, eerie moans on “Knife Party.” Such content came from Moreno getting the courage to step outside of writing songs entirely about his feelings. Moreno kicks the album off, shouting “Fuck, I’m drunk,” on the opening track “Feiticeira,” which is sung from the point of view of someone being kidnapped. The BTS Army and the Transformative Power of Fandom As Activism How the Year’s Best Song Became the Perfect Anthem for Quarantine Run the Jewels Delivered the Rap Album the Moment Demands Maybe we didn’t know it would pay off in the long run, but in our heads, we were like, “Wait till people hear this.’” “We were trying to put it all in there without looking like bozos. “We were all into a whole bunch of music,” Delgado says. There’s drummer Abe Cunningham’s love of the Police drummer Stewart Copeland on “Digital Bath.” Bassist Chi Cheng’s off-kilter rhythm rolls throughout “Korea.” Guitarist Stephen Carpenter shreds with the best of them on “Elite.” Turntablist Frank Delgado brings a cinematic atmosphere to songs like “Teenager.” Musically, you can hear the band’s collage of influences, the very reason then-A&R rep Guy Oseary signed the band to Maverick Records. Twenty years after its release, White Pony is still the Deftones album, Moreno says, and he’s not wrong. “I thought the weirder the music was, the funner and better it was going to be.” “I was thinking to myself, ‘I don’t want our records to be predictable,’” Moreno says. The band had already shifted from the rap-rock styles heard on 1995’s Adrenaline to a dreamier, emo-infused aggression on 1997’s Around the Fur, which included the sleeper hit single “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away).” By 1999, Deftones were ready for another change. We tried to distance ourselves as much as we could, and the best way to do that was by following the path we were on.” My whole idea was when that ship does go down, I don’t want to be on that motherfucker. It’s in the name-nu-metal-it’s going to be old in time. “I wanted our band to stand on our own two feet. “I wanted to go left, not because I felt we were better than these bands,” Moreno says.
Before White Pony, Deftones were thrown in that category, too, much to their disdain. What the Sacramento-based band didn’t want to make was the aggressive mix of hip-hop, howling vocals, and heavy metal guitars coined “nu-metal.” The genre included bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Papa Roach. “We went in with no preconceived ideas of what we were going to make. “ White Pony was the extreme version of and going left of center,” singer Chino Moreno says.
In between the eras of WWE-style rap-rock and East Coast punks discovering their parents’ vinyl collections, Deftones carved a niche on 2000’s White Pony that mixed sex and violence unlike any band before them.
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