I still remember where I was when I heard Alien Ant Farm’s regrettable (yet somewhat legendary?) cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”: Sitting in traffic on the 405 in L.A. on the way home from a swim workout, wondering why, oh why, was the nümetal scourge now infecting good music — and not just wallowing in its own shit at Woodstock ’99, or at a Criss Angel magic show — and how I could possible like this particular corner of it.
Little did I know — as I do now — that a lot of blood, sweat and hair gel was spilled bringing that heretical masterpiece to my teenage eardrums. Mad respect to the boys at the Ant Farm.
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