Everything about this single annoys me. That's 'annoy' me, as opposed to scare/offend/terrify/or intimidate, as I'm sure it was intended to.
For a start, it sounds like it should be on a Marilyn Manson album. The subject matter is beneath tasteless, filled with idiotic and sexist lyrics such as "Hey you, Devil's little sister, listening to your twisted transistor, hold it between your legs, turn it up... can't get enough..." and (as if that wasn't bad enough) at times it smacks of outright misogyny: "This won't hurt a bit, Says who? Anesthetise this bitch...". What a load of pretentious crap.
The artwork is equally as rubbish. The cover has a creepy drawing of a little boy, with a 'fallen crown', who looks like he's addicted to heroin, and behind him are some evil animals who are out to get him. Ooooh I'm scared.
The artwork for the album then tells us what happens next... the evil animals nick his teddy bear. Probably because it was filled with narcotics.
This single is a far cry away from the terminally creepy 'Life is Peachy' album, and yes, at first this band used to terrify the living daylights out of me. But I was 14 years old then and clearly didn't know any better (and even back then I didn't rate them). But now they're evidently trying far too hard. And they've ditched the badly played bagpipes - which, way back then really did sound like death.
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And so with the passing of time, and their ever expanding bank accounts and waistlines, Korn crawl forward on their bloated bellies, wearing their Adidas shell-suits, trying to recreate the intense angst that put them in the spotlight the first time round.
But in all honesty, I find the idea of a group of aging men wearing black nail varnish and producing tripe like this even more disturbing than anything they could come up with. I mean for crying out loud, their ex-guitarist, Brian "Head" Welch, left the band to become an ultra-conservative Evangelical Christian convert, and was last reported trying to save the (alleged) "Cannibals in India", (this of course has nothing to do with 10 years worth of crystal meth consumption). These guys are just not normal.
Simply put, its foul. They're foul. Don't waste your time on it.
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