• Hm. I've spent the past few hours just screwing around on the internet, waiting for my mom to get home. I've discovered something: 90% of people on Ozzfest.net forums don't like Korn. Actually, a few people hate them and wish they'd die. I've thought about it for a while, and have tried my best to discover why haters hate Korn, because I have no other life and I'm extremely bored. Yes, I know I have science homework. Yes, I know my science teacher will slaughter me if I don't get it done by Wednesday. Yes, I know I sound like an over-obsessed KoRno freak. Get over it. PS: ElderOblivion, I'm so sorry... Hope you find a home soon :( Anyway, back to the topic! (PS: Email me if you have something to add! :) I check my Email a lot.) 1st Example: "Korn sucks people, face it. ALL MY PAIN AND HATING INSIDE IS JUST SO PAINFUL ALL DAY, AND I GO HOME AND CUT MY WRISTS AND SIT IN A CORNER AND CRY ABOUT MY PAIN!!!!-Jonathan Davis" (this is an actual comment from this site, by the way) If there'e one thing Korn's music is about, it's pain. But not to such an extremety, as shown above. Haters make fun of Jonathan because he writes about his pain. Well, it's better that he WRITES about it instead of going out and actually acting out his pain upon others. Problem is, the people that say stuff like that probably have had little to no pain in their life. I admit, my life is perfect-ville compared to JD: my parents don't hit me, I'm not made fun of (any more) at school, I've never been touched in that 'special place' by some freaky pedo, and, overall, life is peachy for me. Many people listen to Korn because they relate to their music, ie., the kids who ARE made fun of, ARE beaten by their parents, etc. So why do I listen? So I can feel what sorrow and pain actually feels like. I know little from each emotion, but when I do, the littlest things set me off into a panic attack. I've only cried once or twice when listening to select Korn songs, unlike what other people say on here. They cry on EVERY emotional song: Daddy, Kill You, Hollow Life, etc. Why? Those songs are painful songs to Jonathan and to the majority of his fans. Rape and molestation victims can RELATE to Jon because he's one himself. He has guts to write a song about his rape. Most people keep things like that to themselves, but he sang about it, put it on a CD, and sold the CD for everyone to hear about his horrific experience as a child. That touches something within a fan's soul, if they relate. They write some songs JUST so fans have something to relate to, so they can let out their anger/emotions instead of keeping it all inside and becoming bitter and spiteful toward the world. Keeping rage and sorrow inside is unhealthy to the mind and body, and a way to let it out is through music. Mad at the world? Have a bad day? Girlfriend/boyfriend left you and now you hate their guts? Put on some Korn, and go punch your pillow or some other inanimate object that you can let your rage out on. There's a safe and a stupid way to do everything. Example 2: On the song 'Daddy', Jonathan breaks down sobbing after the song ended. The sobbing and breakdown was fully recorded and included on the CD as the end of 'Daddy'. Now: "That song is so gay and planned out to cry at the end. Jon is one corny mother fucker to say, yeah I'm gonna cry at the end of the song, so I want some girl to start singing while I'm bawling my fucking eyes out to make it seem more serious and cool." (The quoted part is another comment on here) First off, this person is most likely not a victim of rape/molestation, or else he would understand that rape HURTS. Sure. Let's see someone else from some thrash/speed metal, emo-core, or even another nu metal band get molested by a supposed 'family friend' as a young child, scarring them for life, growing up with that dirty little pain inside, and then sing it out for the world to hear. If he DIDN'T cry on Daddy, I would've been surprised. It scares me to hear him like that, to know that the story the he is telling actually happened to someone: Him. The crying doesn't sound very fake to me. It takes balls to say, "Okay, this song is about how I got raped as a child. It's a very emotional song to me, and I might break down during recording. But, no matter what happens, DON'T STOP. Don't stop recording until I'm finally drained." People cry. Crying is a healthy thing to do. If you don't cry at least once in a while, like every other month at least tear up a little tiny bit, then (personally), I'd kinda be worried. Well, not unless you're like the Hells Angels biker dude, then I'd understand ^.^' I read somewhere that the average man cries once a month. Uh... back to Korn. Daddy is like a tidal wave of horrible emotions and memories I hope no one faces. He shows more manliness crying then trying to be all macho and holding it all in. Jonathan is actually pretty brave for doing that. People say he's a pussy for it. Even HE says he's a pussy. Well, haters, go through all he's gone through, THEN build up the guts to call him a pussy without re-thinking the whole thing first. He can't do Daddy live anymore because he'll do the same thing he did in the recording studio: Break down, and therefore not be able to go on. I've seen them do it live before they even got signed, and he starts sobbing right in the middle of the stage. Example 3: Korn's new sound sucks. They've sold out. The true meaning of 'Selling out': When a band creates records and sells into big merchandising companies just for the money, and even purposely starts making shitty music just to piss their fans off. ...I see this far, far from Korn's ways. Even now, at every single show they've ever played, from all the way back in '93 when they first started out, to now, with 7 albums and millions of adoring fans... they thank their fans for everything Korn has become to the world. They say that Korn wouldn't be shit without us, the Children of the Korn, and that they try to make the best records and play the best shows, just to please the fans. The song 4U and Beg For Me is for the fans. "I could have never lived if it wasn't... 4U." He wouldn't be here without us. Now, tell me. What kind of band that says something like that suddenly falls on the sell-out train to hell? They took the lemons from Head's departure and made it into lemonade. 'Ohh, they sold out because they went for The Matrix'. No, they went to them because they're trying to find a new sound that still makes them Korn, yet it is different. An odd choice, I admit, but it worked out well. They still have fans, don't they? They want to make a profit out of pain, all the while trying their best to please the people that got them there in the first place. With them going kind of rap all of a sudden... So they have a few rap artists as friends. They're still Korn. Life is Peachy and Self-titled are still out there. If you hate what they're doing now, slap on some Kill You and marinate in your rage. If you still like them, have always liked them, and are a hard-core fan, good for you. Mosh to some Here to Stay or Coming Undone. Example 4: Untalented at guitars, untalented at bass, untalented at drums, untalented at vocals. Korn just plain SUCK. Well, your opinion on their music is based on your personal taste in music. If you say they suck while you have never heard a single riff from them and just learned they existed yesterday, well... to me, that's kind of stupid. Give 'em a chance. Heard one song from them that you think sucks, but haven't heard anything else? Again, give 'em a chance. Hear a few other songs from different albums before jumping to conclusions. That would be the best thing to do. Again, liking or disliking music is based solely on taste. I have yet to see a single nu-metal freak that didn't AT LEAST like one song by Korn, while the thrashers around the globe may not particularly like to mosh to 'Freak on a Leash'. But, I don't like to stereotype, but who knows? Maybe a few full-blown thrashers have a Korn album hidden among their CDs. Again. Personal taste rules all. Example 5: Korn's lead singer is a fag. He even says so. Jon isn't gay. Simple as that. People get mixed messages from songs like 'Faget'. He was called gay throughout high school, he has the nick-name HIV, he has HIV tattooed on his arm, and he calls himself gay, but that's just so he can come to terms with being labeled a 'Fag'. Some may have gotten the impression from a video they saw (Shown at end of this rant/bitching). Well, he was drunk during most of that. He doesn't seem drunk, but that was during the recording of Follow the Leader, in which I heard about $20,000 was spent on beer and alcohol. But Jon went sober in '99, cold-turkey. Alcohol, drugs, caffeine even. But, the whole gay thing is just a joke. He's married to an ex-porn star and has two children. See? NOT GAY. If you hate him just because you think he's gay, then there's a pretty good chance you're a homophobe, which IMO is one of the most useless things someone can be. Example 6: Korn aren't heavy enough. ...Korn doesn't make music to be 'heavy' or to be a band that makes noise you can jump around to. Korn's music is full of pain and actually has a bit of MEANING. Not guitars so loud and distorted your ears bleed and a screeching singer whom you can barely understand, much less stand at all. Korn has some heaviness to them, but they don't want to be some fucking band where it would sound better if the guitarist hit the guitar against his head and the singer sounded like the following: "EEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! SSSUUUUUUFFFFFEEEEEEEEERRRR AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHAAGHGHGHGAAGHAERGH!!!!!!" NO NO NO! THAT DOES NOT EQUAL KORN! >.< If you want them to be that way, then listen to bands that actually sound like that and stop saying they suck because they don't sound like what you like. Example 7: KORN IS NOT METAL! Yes, I realize that. They are majorly categorized as nu metal, rap metal, rap core, etc. They encorporate rap into metal, blending it to create a mixture of the two sounds (Want proof? Got the Life, baby.). I've heard that nu metal meant 'The new age of metal', or something like that. I kind of agree, but at the same time, I kinda don't. As from someone on Ozzfest.net forums has said: "Just because it has metal in the name doesn't mean it's metal. Kind of like a starfish isn't actually a fish." I've heard from an interview on Music Choice on rap metal that Jonathan dislikes their label as a 'nu metal' band. I quote: "I remember when we were coming out, we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band. We were something that wasn't classifiable. Then they came up with nu metal.. Well, that's still cheesy 'cause it was all cheesy..you could say 'music'.. so... it's frustrating." Hm. They say they ARE NOT METAL. STOP HATING ON THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT METAL. So... You've read this whole thing???? Really? Well, I hope that cleared things up... and I'm done bitching for now. I feel better. I'm gonna go watch Live On the Other Side now. Email me if you have comments on this ;) Constructive criticism only. If I get an Email that consists of 'korn sux'... you have no life, sir. You just wasted 1 minute of your short life sending me an Email that has no specific meaning or any place in this world. Go away, person that I know will send me that Email. Here is the video I promised... Warning: This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. May induce convulsions, seizures, aneurisms, shortness of breath, suffocation, or death by laughter. You have been warned ;) :D :D :D :D :D :D Jonathan and Jonathan's Boy Oil: It'll be in a store soon!

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