Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’” was a huge success, but one glance at the New York City skyline will tell you that a pivotal part of the music video is no longer visible.
We all remember those iconic shots of the band playing on the roof of one of these towering skyscrapers, but it doesn’t take a seasoned gumshoe to observe that they’re no longer there. So where, exactly, did those buildings go?
The story actually goes back to shortly after the music video had been filmed. As it turns out, these buildings, which together were known as the World Trade Center, were destroyed in a coordinated attack by the jihadist organization Al-Qaeda in September of 2001.
Crazy!
Apparently, in the early morning of September 11th, 19 hijackers boarded 4 commercial airliners for the sole purpose of overtaking them and flying them into the aforementioned World Trade Center, as well as the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and an unknown target believed to be either the White House or U.S. Capitol building. The two planes destined for the Twin Towers hit the buildings with such speed that the impact, combined with the heat from the jet fuel, compromised their structural integrity, and they completely collapsed.
So, that’s where they went!
This may be an unbelievably tragic story, but if you’re anything like us, you’ve been racking your brains for the past couple of decades trying to figure out why you haven’t seen these buildings in any music videos, so it’s good to have that question answered, at least. Thankfully, the guys in Limp Bizkit were able to wrap up recording their music video well before these attacks took place. We can be grateful for that, because that probably would’ve been quite the disruption!
We wonder if Fred and the gang are aware of what happened to the setting of one of their most popular music videos, so if you happen to see them, can you break the news so we don’t have to? Trust us, we don’t want to be in the same room when these rockers find out they won’t be doing any more filming on top of those awesome buildings!
