it sounds so bloated because there's this really overly complex structure, so there's like a chorus, a verse, what sounds like a lil break towards the end of the verse, a pre-chorus, and a post-chorus, and the problem lies in that instrumentally everything except the chorus sounds exactly the same and the only structuring to it is in the vocals. my guess is wes borland came up with that widdly guitar bit and the fairly cool drum break underneath it and the band liked it so much they decided to run it into the fucking ground
cut the 'we ready to go, we ready to go, we ready to go', cut the pre-chorus as well, just carry on with the more basic sounding verse without going into the widdly guitar bit for the millionth time, and you would have... well you would still have a limp bizkit song with lil wayne in it
it's rhythmically interesting but it's the kind of thing you would put in a song maybe once or twice to add a little flair and they just do it over and over and over
I do like the idea of making something that would otherwise be a small flourish into a central part of a song, but yeah definitely not arguing with you there
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