Nu Metal is marketable metal. It's hard enough to capture the angst of a teen demographic and catchy enough to sell records. Really what is the one common denominator of all the bands that fall under the Nu Metal headline? Marketability. Take that and combine it with the fact that, as a generalization, most people who espouse Nu Metal as a sub-genre don't go much deeper into the greater genre of metal, and it becomes an annoying once-upon-a-flavor-of-the-month genre. I don't think there's too much wrong with most of the music itself. There's definitely a lot of garbage, but I don't think that can be put on the style itself, rather, as Big3 got at, it's pretty much what amounts to be a lack of effort and depth in songwriting.
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