It was intentionally ironic :roll:
I'm old enough to laugh knowingly at all this nu metal hate. I can remember when Whitesnake couldn't get arrested, never mind booked for a large festival, and 80s metal was seen as one big joke, yet now there's kids in guyliner with ripped jeans playing 32nd note sweep picked lines and everyone thinks it's great :roll:
Faith No More were true pioneers who had some great songs. If all you've ever heard is Epic then you're getting a very narrow view of what they were about.
Nu metal was influenced by some great bands (Alice in Chains influence is very noticeable in many bands, same for Pantera), and TBH I enjoyed a lot of music from that time (again, a time when you were what 11?). Yes there was some unmitigated shitee, but that's what happens as soon as there's a "scene". Labels start snapping up any old act to turn a quick buck, and the 80s metal scene certainly suffered from it's fair share of these.
I think the whole problem with these "scenes" or " movements" is they feel the need to distance themselves from what went before. Too many bands today wouldn't have seemed out of place in 1988, and seem to be pretending that the last 20 years never happened. If they incorporated the grooving rhythms,sonic textures, emotive lyrics and strong vocal hooks of Nu metal and Grunge they could make something awesome and truly new.
