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In Todd's video on Limp Bizkit's Results May Vary, he refrains from trashing their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" on sheer principle, saying that someone as hated as Fred Durst singing a song that Pete Townshend wrote as a villain song could actually be a brilliant idea.

While this didn't turn out to be the case, and it wasn't hard to imagine a Limp Bizkit cover of a Who song being bad to begin with, I do think it's always a lot easier to claim that something was a stupid idea when the end product doesn't deliver, as opposed to when it actually works.

I'm curious to hear some examples of something in music that would (or did) have people facepalming, only for the result to prove the people involved to be crazy like a fox.

I've seen a couple of outlets note how Colonel Tom Parker tells Elvis that the International Hotel will pay for his Las Vegas shows in the movie, when in real life, Elvis Presley apparently had to cover the cost of his shows himself in real life.

However, I notice that when the Colonel is about to tell Elvis this, the film makes a point of showing Parker divulging this to Elvis in a more secretive manner after he hears someone coming in through the showroom doors.

The idea that the International Hotel paid for Elvis’s stage shows has been deemed an inaccuracy in the film, but is the fact that the Colonel says this to Elvis so secretively meant to indicate that this is a lie he's telling him?

A nut that hasn't really been cracked as far as combining film genres is the superhero horror movie.

It's understandable why; horror films are supposed to produce a feeling of dread and helplessness, and the existence of benevolent superpowered beings would essentially negate this. Something like Brightburn is ultimately more of a supervillain origin story, which goes a lot more hand-in-hand with the horror genre.

Films like Spawn (or Faust: Love of the Damned, if anyone knows that one) utilize an especially dark backdrop for the superhero's origin (often Hell), but instilling fear in the audience isn't necessarily a major priority. Overall, it doesn't seem like these films have completely made a case that these two genres can exist within the same film in such a way they both carry equal weight.

Does anyone think that there's a secret to successfully fusing these two genres?

I know there are things about Spike.com and Spike TV that are probably best left in the past, but from about 2008-2011, it honestly had a not-insignificant influence on my taste in music.

Spike.com are more or less the reason I started listening to Radiohead and Weezer in high school, as their list of the Top 7 Worst Albums by Awesome Bands featured The Green Album and Pablo Honey. Seeing this was more or less why I began listening to both bands, and The Blue Album and The Bends remain two of my favorite albums to this day (I also happen to like and defend Pablo Honey, for what it's worth).

There were other lists that I can recall that acted as starting points for me to develop opinions on music, like the Top Underrated MCs, Top 10 Classic Albums That Accidentally Ruined Music, Top 10 Artists Who Should've Quit When They Were Ahead, and the Top 10 Greatest Songs by Bad Artists.

As I said at the top, there are some not great attitudes that were prevalent on the site; outside the realm of music, it's probably best that their Top Actresses Past Their Expiration Date list is lost media. They also had a lot of musical attitudes that are pretty eyeroll-worthy in hindsight (they were very "kids should listen to Slayer instead of Justin Bieber"). Not to mention that, if memory serves, their list of the Top 10 Artists About to Expire included Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. But in spite of all that, I do ultimately have to acknowledge them as having played a significant role in my genesis as a music nerd.