THE NIN HOTLINE

CDnow.com's music gossip columnist, Miss Truth, follows recent music press finger-poiting at red-capped Bizkit frontman Fred Durst in her column today. As she notes, the general critical consensus about the latest LB 'effort' Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is that Freddie's coming up short on original musings: For example, in the first verse of "My Generation," Durst cops script from two songs (Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" and his own "Take a Look Around") and a movie (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), but it's his blatant lifting from Nine Inch Nails' hits "The Perfect Drug" and "Closer" that bugs us most. And, yes, we know he credits NIN in the album and got permission, so he's not really stealing, it's just a little lazy, OK? ... We suppose it could be some form of mockery towards Reznor, in retaliation for the Durst diss in Nine Inch Nails' "Starfuckers, Inc." video, but that may be giving Durst too much credit. Creative juices stagnant, perhaps? On a related, disappointing note, Limp Bizket's latest album debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts this week.