Controversy might be the wrong word.
Nu Metal to me uses way to much of the "brain, pain, insane" theme. Simple rhymes, woe-is-me lyrics, pretty straight forward music. Its a genre that seems to lack a lot of song-writing skills, and to improve your ability to play an instrument, or song writing has the whiff of "selling out."
Its a genre that doesn't seem to want to improve, and in some ways it unintentionally minimalist by way of ignorance. The one exception had been System of a Down, but then they let their meathead guitarist write songs and he was more of the numetal same.
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