“Let Me Down” by Limp Bizkit

"Let Me Down" comes from Results May Vary, Limp Bizkit's fourth studio album, released through Flip and Interscope in 2003, and it belongs to the strangest stretch in the band's life. Wes Borland had walked out in 2001, his replacement Mike Smith of Snot didn't stick around long, and Fred Durst was running the show on his own, co-producing this one with Rick Rubin and splitting the writing credit with John Otto and Sam Rivers.

The record around it eased off the rapping and let Durst brood, wandering into acoustic, funk and jazz corners around what was left of the hip-hop and nu metal, with lyrics chewing on heartbreak, bullying and self-pity. Michael Elvis Baskette engineered and Brendan O'Brien mixed. Critics mostly savaged the album, and it was the last Limp Bizkit studio set before the band's hiatus from 2006 to 2009.

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