I mean anyone with internet can find out why he wrote this song. It’d be pointless to tell a man who got beat up and called a faget his whole childhood that he can’t reclaim a word meant to hurt him
well we all know the song isn't actually about gays, it is about him being socially ostracized...still it is easy to imagine people getting butthurt about it lol.
Some people forget or are too young to realize when Korn started out, they were many parent's worst nightmare for their kids to get into. The first couple albums dealt with some trauma in a way NOBODY was pouring into their music aside from these guys. They had the darkest riffs, eerie and spooky moods, the foulest language, and they were always flaunting HEAVY beer drinking, and obviously other well known vices. I was a massive fan of their first two albums, so this song really takes me back to high school.
@@ncromos Not choosing to embrace a gay lifestyle, or loving the gay community isn't bullying at all. Its called a "preference". You kids today are so ignorant, brainwashed and straight up dumb. You take a word, and apply it to anything and everything to suit your cause, or that doesn't entirely agree with you. I don't agree with the gay lifestyle at all, but I sure in the hell don't bully anyone who chooses to be gay, or condemn them for it. Everyone should be judged on how they act, and treat others. So stop talking, you sound like a complete sh*t for brains!
It's crazy how little they've changed after all these years. Same energy and intensity, and no degradation of vocal quality. It would be so hard to scream your head off show after show.
I'm not understanding people's stance on this lol! He's not calling people a derogatory term, he was called that. In recent years I've seen more people who were victimized use their voices, so why wouldn't this song be fitting this day in age?
Miss G to me the word faggot has never been and will never be offensive. Most people disagree with me. Please read the original comment before your try and start internet debates either people who agree with you
I miss this. I havent seen this on the set in years and I NEVER miss a Korn show. This is a very deep track, bring it back as the Korn staple that it is!
My ex boyfriend used to rehearse at the same rehearsal studios where Korn rehearsed. This was way back before we knew who they were... One of the members of the band bummed a cigarette off me and I asked my boyfriend who they are and why they get to graffiti-up their studio. I remember him saying "some band called Kornhole or some shit like that. They suck. They'll never amount to a thing." One week later I heard them on KROQ and laughed my ass off. I became an instant fan. Ah memories. I still have a bunch of the old albums. It's good to see them still rockin' out there. Thanks for sharing. It's nice to know Korn is still whole. Lol!! (Inside joke)
Yeah, Hot Topic wearing, ultra-emotive, depressive, nail polish wearing, old nu-metal rockers really put "snowflakes" in their place. As I type this he complains about "people treating him this way." Hahahahaha!!
G T what’s funny about some of the anti-conservative comments like this one, is this person and others have no idea that Jonathan is pretty conservative, considering he was once on Alex Jone’s youtube channel, as well as Brian Welch was jamming with Mike Huckabee months ago. lol
This song isn’t Jon calling people names, but calling out the people who called him names like “faggot” when he was in high school. The message is really “I’m a person but you people only see me as something lesser than what I am” This song should be more relevant especially now
was the 2nd song that left me in shock when I saw the video, I got completely caught up in the concept and dirt of the image and the final chorus is tremendously liberating!
to all the people who say music isn't prophetic, i disagree...here is an example...take the song can you hear me? by Korn...song was written in 2015 i think and in the video it seems to be about this guy stalking this girl, hacked her phone, watching her, etc.....then Jonathan's wife passes away suddenly and tragically and then they release the song in 2019 and if you listen to it, it could be taken as a tribute to her and their relationship...great isn't it?
thanks for sharing this. really wish Brian would release or at least somehow work on or even finish up a new Love and Death album. Lo Lamento was such a great track that was released and Id love more. really love the intimate feel and look of this. it would be cool to carry on this look for some of their shows when they do a tour for the album
They're still capable of playing this sounding album levels of awesome but I really wish they'd revisit this sound with new songs. Personally the first two albums are my favorite because to me that's what Korn was. I'm older so I was into Korn when each of those two albums were new. I liked FTL ok enough but a lot of that album didn't age as well imo but issues was back on track imo. But I absolutely hate Untouchables. I like a few songs on it but it just really wasn't what I wanted from the band (but, of course, the band has to do what they are feeling, as well they should). I like most of their stuff that followed Untouchables well enough but none of it has had anywhere near the impact those first two albums and issues had on me and still do. I think Korn have gotten comfortable with making basically the same album over and over and playing it safe while adding some gimmicks here and there (like that god-awful dubstep). That doesn't necessarily mean the music is bad for the most part because it's solid enough but it's lost that genuine feeling imo. The lyrical content has gotten predictable and feels forced. It feels like instead of writing what's really eating at him from the heart with brutal honesty like he used to, he writes lyrics that sound dark for the sake of sounding dark to appeal to the current generation of teens. On the first two albums you can feel the genuine emotion and pain but now it just feels forced and gimmicky to me. He's touched on the past couple of years on this album and I'll admit that some of it is a return to form but it still just sounds like the same old same old imo when you get down to the meat and bones of it. In my opinion the real Korn sound, what truly made them pioneers and wholly original, can be summed up by listening to the song Sean Olsen from The Crow soundtrack. It's everything that made Korn amazing.
I totally agree with you, man. I don’t know, maybe you are a little older than me (22 y.o.), but we have absolutely the same tastes. I have been listening to this group since I was 15 years old and I am becoming more and more convinced of the uniqueness of these three albums - the first two and Issues. Tracks like "Hey Daddy", "Trash" and "Dirty" were filled with hysteria, mood swings and deep depression that are so familiar to drug and alcohol addicts (I was the same). And although Korn always had simple lyrics, it was easy to believe Jonathan that he lived it. On those albums. And now they are writing pop music, where heavy riffs and a monotonous repetition of all the same old thoughts are inserted. Very unnatural, it looks like they adapt to the modern listener. As for this track, I just watched it from their whole concert .. The melodic part with "Im just a pretty boy" is one of the most expressive moments from the debut album. Thanks to Korn for performing this legendary material.
@@Ioann_M thanks! I know what I wrote is not a popular opinion but I'll forever be a fan of their older works. I was maybe 12 when the first Korn album came out (I'm 37 now) and remember the first time I heard Blind. It changed everything for me as far as music was concerned. Before that I was listening to stuff like The Offspring, Nirvana, Metallica. There's very few bands that have truly elicited real emotions from me and Korn were the first to do it. I felt the same way when Slipknot dropped their first album in 99. I have to say that Slipknot quickly became my number one band over Korn (probably because that first Slipknot album was produced by Ross Robinson who produced Korns best works so it had that intense emotion similar to Korn) and still is my number one but like I said I can still listen to Korns first two albums and issues all the way through from beginning to end and have goosebumps from the sheer raw power of the music and vocal performances. I still check in from time to time to see what's new with Korn but I've yet to hear anything that holds a candle to what they used to be. I feel like once Johnathan Davis started to actually "sing" instead of just release whatever felt right for the moment regardless of how it sounded that that's when it started to kind of lose that realness for me at least. Then they did Untouchables and that album really was what split between fans at the time. A lot of newer fans loved it but I think a lot of fans from the older stuff didn't at all. Sorry, that was so long winded. LoL
@@buddykaiser2380 Not a problem, mate. We are talking about one of the favorite groups of youth, it may take some time) I agree with the "singing" part, they became more commercially oriented when they strictly shared responsibilities (Head screamed very cool at the end of Somebody Someone at concerts). In this era, when Jonathan simply made various strange sounds, screams and almost died in songs - these were the origins. Without David, on the drums they lost this raw, deaf, decaying groove. I kind of waited for them to release a new album, but I still haven’t listened to it, from the clips I realized that this is not what we were waiting for. I opened them when I listened to Slayer, Pantera and grunge like AiC and Stone Temple Pilots, came across "Adidas" and "Twist" and listened to it for a few week, until I realized that there was something fundamentally new in front of me. Then I downloaded the discography and Blind, Freak On a Leash and Got The Life finally covered me. About Untouchables: Hollow Life was a revelation for me. I listened to her far from the metropolis, on vacation, being alone with nature, and it seems to me that I partially regained my sight with this song. This is a very interesting musical experiment, like the antipode of their basic style, but even with deeper lyrics. PS. Slipknot - definitely yes. I immediately liked this pure aggression in (sic) with choking screams and a "wall" of swearing
if i see one more mother fucken hater of ray being in korn i’m gonna scream first off david was amazing back in the day with korn but he took advantage of that and left them hanging and quit without notice and now is trying to play the he’s innocent bullshit ray has been there for almost ten years or a little more and he puts his own uniqueness to korn and fills a dark heavier void.hes been there for those 4 even before head came back ray is better than david cause of his heart and plays with his soul grow the fuck up and get over it true fans will back them up no matter what
People forget that he writes and sings with actual emotion. Not often you watch a band keep an eye on their vocalist during songs because of the genuine emotion he sings with and their concern
So badass the beggining. Then it sounds like a freakin confetti cannon wid a rubber chicken being squeezed with kermit the frog in background. When they go wheew!
I’m so incredibly happy that they did not shy out and stuck to their roots! This is an amazing song and I’m so glad they performed this recently. So glad they aren’t shying out just to be “politically correct”
John Davis sounds better now than he did when this song came out. The emotion and anger is still there. He's not trying to fake something he did over 20 years ago, it's somehow better!? How many artists can you say that about?
Ray Luzier, amazing. I think after hearing The Nothing, I definitely know now, he's better and more innovative than David Silveria, while still paying respect to Silveria's rhythms, for example, on the song The Darkness is Revealing chorus.
I dont think anyone is hating on ray. Most people know that david and ray are two different drummers and Ray isn't a groove type drummer. I also am not a fan on how much he overplays stuff at live shows but whatever
