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| Length = 48:52 | Label = Maverick | | Producer = Terry Date and Deftones | | Last album = ''Around the Fur'' (1997) | This album = ''White Pony'' (2000) | Next album = ''Deftones'' (2003) | Misc = }} ''White Pony'' is the third studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on June 20, 2000. It marked a significant growth in the band's sound and is considered a turning point for the band in terms of experimentation, incorporating more new wave, dream pop, trip hop, and shoegazing influences into the alternative metal edge for which the group had become known.〔http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/deftones-white-pony.htm〕 It is generally regarded by fans and critics alike as one of their most mature outings, despite being one of the group's last albums to be described by some critics as nu metal and despite the band's past association with the movement. ''White Pony'' is also their highest-selling album to date. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA on July 17, 2002. The album features three successful singles as well as the 2001 Grammy Award-winning track for Best Metal Performance, "Elite." ''White Pony'' is also the first album to feature Frank Delgado as a full-time member of the band. Delgado had worked previously with the band as a featured guest on ''Around the Fur'' and ''Adrenaline'', producing sound effects on some songs. ==Background and recording== After a break from touring, the band spent four months in the studio writing and recording ''White Pony'', the longest amount of time they had dedicated to an album thus far. Moreno explained that the majority of this time was spent trying to write songs, and that the writing of "Change (In the House of Flies)" was the turning point where the band began working as a group.〔 Despite being pressured to release the album sooner, the band decided to take their time making the album. Cheng explained that "We didn't feel like we had anything to lose, so we made the record we wanted to make." Moreno did not have a common theme in mind lyrically, but made a conscious decision to bring an element of fantasy into his lyrics, explaining that "I basically didn’t sing about myself on this record. I made up a lot of story lines and some dialogue, even. I took myself completely out of it and wrote about other things. Once I did that I was able to sing about anything I wanted to, I could be a lot more general. There’s a lot of stuff on this record that people are going to question me about, and I can just remove myself from it. It’s not me. I’m writing a story here."〔 Although the band initially wasn't intending to include guest musicians in the record,〔 the album features additional vocals by Maynard James Keenan on "Passenger", and Rodleen Getsic on "Knife Prty". Album lyrics are included in the CD booklets with explicit language noted with phonetically similar words. For example on "Street Carp" the lyric "Now take it home and fuck with it" is written as "Now take it home and have fun with it". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「White Pony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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