Limp Bizkit. Never like them. Then I heard some of Wes Borland’s side projects. Made it clear that there were really good musicians in the band that could have evolved in interesting directions. But we’ll never know because they were held back by Durst’s angry drunk trashy frat-boy image and idiotic, juvenile lyrics.
Formal is not the word your looking for. Literal. People interpret the words literally. The can’t/ don’t understand figurative language like sarcasm, symbolism and metaphor.