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It might seem rather strange that a hot new nu-metal band would choose to cover a Michael Jackson track, but Alien Ant Farm's front-man, Dryden Mitchell, claims that the band are "all big fans of Michael Jackson"
Actually, I don't find the idea of a metal band covering a song from another genre at all surprising. These novelty covers are something of a pet hate of mine, and so when they released this as the follow-up to the irritating Lamacq Live favourite 'Movies', I hated it. Actually, listening now it's by no means the worst of such efforts and there's some energy to it. It does sound like they might even like the song, though not enough to have learnt the words properly. I wouldn't want to hear it repeatedly though.
Predictably, the commercial gain from this track was short-lived: a re-released 'Movies' went Top 5, but they haven't come near the Top 40 since.
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