![]() CapCut can also upscale images by increasing resolution, adjust image color with AI color correction, and restore old photos or colorize black and white photos with AI. These include the ability to remove backgrounds from portrait videos and replace them with uploaded images or change the background color. They were just being cheap and people died/awful things happened because of their greed.CapCut is a video editing tool that offers a multitude of advanced features to users. The excuse of being too naive to know how many people were going to show up didn't cut it. They put it in a military base to keep people out, they booked bands and effectively chose the audience they were looking to attend, they priced the tickets in a manner only rich upper middle class kids could go to, and they jacked up the prices, cutting corners on public water, cooling areas, showers, food, security. Woodstock 99 was a cash grab from the beginning. It took the counter-culture and protest movements of the 60s, packaged them in a film to sell to marketers and un-cool baby boomers. Viacom gets out clean, because they are part of the media. They were commodifying teenage angst and debauchery in the same way they used to do. MTV was re-packaging their spring break coverage where the same kind of criminal shit was happening with the Co-Eds egged of by the cameras to get wasted. The way MTV/Viacom created their own scapegoats was pretty slick. It also feels like Limp Bizkit gets the most of it since they were easily discarded as a money-making entity. I think the blaming of the artists was kind of crass. I never realized Woodstock 99 was at a closed down military base. The full episode is worth a watch but this part on Korn specifically is interesting overview of what their lifestyle was like even before they got huge: ![]() He was literally afraid for their lives due to how crazy the shows were, and while he doesn't go into too much detail you certainly get the impression their lives were very chaotic and reckless. This clip he talks about the early days of Korn working with them when they were just doing shows in and around Bakersfield. He produced for Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, The Blood Brothers, list goes on. I was definitely into the nu-metal stuff when it was popular but looking back a lot of the elements surrounding that era of youth culture and the MTV image of oversexed rock "gods" was never a healthy image to project onto the minds of lots of impressionable youth.Īs an aside I saw this podcast interview a few months back with Ross Robinson, this guy was pretty much the leading force in helping create Korn's early sound and is considered the godfather of nu-metal. ![]() The rapey bro culture that existed back then while not caused specifically by the music was certainly spurred on by that brand of rock star groupie mentality, which of course was nothing new to the music industry at large. This was an all ages show mind, and my friend and I weren't even 16. There was certainly a toxic element that promoted this kind of culture you see at Woodstock 99 however, I recall a video they showed at the Family Values show that was this backstage montage of various scenes with the bands on the tour, and specifically recall one part showing fully nude groupies showering in a locker room sized shower area. Limp Bizkit, Method Man & Redman, Staind, and Korn. I saw them at Tacoma Dome for one of the Family Values tours and it was a fantastic show. ![]() Korn gets a lot of shit but they really are a great live act with their energy and ability to get a big crowd going. Though i disagree with the idea of targeting the bands (it smells like 80s satanic panic and 90s doom/marilyn manson all over again blaming the sympton not the cause), i'll give this a watch Our local music channel did a pretty good report on the tragedy Limp Bizkit absolutely contributed to that after ignoring the advice from security and not managing the crowd. Having said that, the time I saw Limp Bizkit a young teenage girl got crushed/trampled and died in the mosh that evening. So, you can imagine what happens at 2-3am when hundreds to thousands of exhausted festival goers are queued up waiting for transport into town when only 3 buses rock up. Though camping on the festival site was encouraged, people booked hotels in the nearest city for overnight accommodation of the 3 day festival. My go to tale is a huge metal festival in France 30km from the nearest large town/small city. Having been to a number of metal festivals around the world I can say that the festival organisation directly attributes to the state of mind of festival goers and not a result of the bands playing. I saw Limp Bizkit two years later in Australia in 01' and they certainly did attract a certain type of demographic through their music and as a result of huge nu-metal exposure on music channels at the time.
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