Funny how he looks so Triggered and you see the black and white stripes to the left.
At the height of their fame, Limp Bizkit and Korn went together like ICP and Twiztid, or peanut butter and jam. Fred and Jonathan Davis recorded a couple tracks with eachothers bands, and travelled together with Korn's Family Values Tour.
In the late 1990's Fred spoke publicly about wanting to "lick Christina Aguilera's butthole", even appearing in Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" video "arguing" with Carson Daly over the blow-up doll representing Miss.A. In 2003 he had a brief, contreversial relationship with Britney Spears, one of the most infamous of the MKSlaves. She denies their relationship ever happened. Miss Spears is also spoofed in Em's "Real Slim Shady" video.
Take his hand
Nothing up his sleeves...
In this video he is the patient who "loves" his handler, then switches places with her
In 2001 or '02 Wes Borland left the band, stating"...I feel my heart is going black, becausethis is not what I'm called to do. The little voice inside my head says 'You should be somewhere else. You should take the risk. You should let it go.' I think they'll be better now that I'm gone. I held them back from being their best because I was so against what they were doing."
Fred told reporters Wes had been listening to a lot of Radiohead for a while and had become very weird.
In 2004 Wes was back with Limp Bizkit, in full make-up and blacked out contacts. He's still with the band who is currently working on their Gold Cobra album. What happened to make him return to the band?
In 2007 Fred was arrested for hitting two girls with his car then leaving the scene. He made a plea bargain, serving 3 years probation, community service, paying a settlement, is/was not allowed within 100 yards of the victims, and surrendering all his guns.
In 2009 he spoke out against Obama, past presidents, and politics in general. "I just haven't voted for a president because I believe we still haven't found one...I could see myself having a very substantial point of view and contribution to helping politics get on the path of being less corrupt. It's so f*cking corrupt-it's out of control and it's anarchy."
Fred prides himself on being honest. He claims time and again that he's no liar (particularly about the Britney thing.) As a fellow Saggitarrius I know for most of us that honesty is one of our highest values; we tell things how we see them. Yet Miss Spears is also a Saggitarius. Again; we tell the truth as we see it. Maybe it was one of her alters dating him, or it was a simple case of "Oops! You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above...I'm not that innocent."
I'm not sure what to make of Fred, or Wes. Are they products of MK conditioning? Fred seems too contemptuous of corruption to actually be a handler, despite the Behind Blue Eyes video. What do you think?
Every fan of Korn or Jonathan Davis is well aware that he was molested in his youth. Some say by his father though, according to Wikipedia, Jonathan said it was not his father, but a woman whom he would not identify. Either way, the damage was done.
In Korn's early days, Jon wore a lot of black and white Adidas suits with stripes running up the sleeves. If he looked at his arm when bent he would see horizontal stripes. He wore other colours (he would often be spotted in green, or black and red), however black and white was, and still is, his main theme.
Is it just me, or does his smile match that of his creepy tattoo?
Touch-ups and additions turned the tattoo into a sleeve of disturbing imagery
Strange symbol on his wrist-band
Ozzy Osbourne and Jon Davis strike mirrored poses
More black and white Adidas stripes, posing much like his famous mic stand
I'm not certain if this was fan-made or an actual promo. Either way, this speaks volumes
Red star/pentegram on hat, "Somebody Told Me" behind him, words carrying on his black and white theme
He's missing the whole one eye Jay-Z thing, but other than that...
With a zoned-out looking girl (I forget who), red Guess triangles behind, "Wonderland" written as Wonder Land, and once again carrying out his black and white theme with a JD shirt.
He's playing his hand to the bone in a dead forest at night. Wtf?
This one is most troubling. A crucifix to the right of the background, twin columns on the throne, looks like a checkerboard floor (but I think it's just "rubble" from the "destruction"), a serpent coiling around Jon and the infant held in a threatening grip, his hand on the head of the boy (his son?) who is bleeding from the mouth. Reminiscent of the "As above so below" pose of Baphomet. The middle window seems to act as an all-seeing eye, and the lightening is representing, I assume, a power transfer of some kind.
Some things never change
The pattern around him and on his shirt are pretty trippy. What is that a picture of, anyway? A white rabbit?
What's with the HIV?
Even in the pictures where he's smiling he looks unhappy, which is expressed through most of his music. Head's comment continues to ring through my mind:
"...'This is the rock'n'roll life!' But inside, I thought they took it too far. It was a little too crude for me."
What was too crude for him? What was taking it too far?
First of all, I'd like to say that I do like Korn. It's because of this that I started noticing things while listening to them one day after reading MKCulture. It was these lyrics that caught my attention:
"Hate something...somewhere...Each day...feel'n ripped off for gett'n off
Why? This shit inside
Now everyone will follow
so...give...me...nothing...Just feel
and now a sheep will follow"
Is he hating the thing that's making him feel ripped off? Getting off...There's probably a double meaning to this. Sexual satisfaction (or masturbation) being the obvious one, and money/success/fame/glamour being the other. He seems to be venting a lot of anger, then mentions everybody following and referencing sheep. Hmm.
"God thanks me...the more I see the lie...Didn't want us to see
God told me...I already got the life...oh, I say"
"Each day I can feel it swallow
Inside something they took from me
I don't feel your deathly ways
Each day I feel so hollow
Inside always beating me
You will never see
So come dance with me..."
Clearly the song is about his unhappiness with the "joys" of success in the industry, yet there seems to be a lot more to it. Let's check out the music video for Got the Life.
Anyone familiar with the asian-esque (apologies if that's offensive; I don't know if that's Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or what, lettering. When I don't know, I say "asian-ese", or "asian-esque", to avoid calling someone/thing the wrong one. Sometimes a Korean-for example gets pretty dang upset if you call them Thai-for example. I am not being racist.) letters on the door at 0:53? If so, would you mind telling us what they mean?
I don't like to give much thought to things like star shapes in the shot. Yes, they have black stars in the background while they perform. Does that automatically mean we're looking at pentegrams? Sometimes people just like stars. However, given the rest of the video, they may very well be pentegrams.
At 1:13 one of the band members gives Jon a disapproving look when Jon asks to be given something he can feel.
A bunch of suits, a political looking broad, and a cowboy watch the band perform. They all shake hands and smile as if they're responsible for Korn. This pisses off the band, and Korn has left the building.
Jon goes to his car, which is swarmed by paparazzi, and seems to be half-praying/half-having-some-kind-of-attack. I can't help but notice his necklace. He exits the car, starts swinging a bat at the paparazzi, and strikes a pose like Jesus on the cross.
The remaining four members "story" kind of over-laps. Head and Fieldy give their car to a black squeegie man, who is over-joyed with their generosity. He speeds off, only for the car to explode. Munky and David Silveria observe the explosion. Then the band walks off together and is next seen at a party with a bunch of rappers.
WTF?! So they basically murdered a homeless black man then go off and party like it ain't no thang? Yeah Jon, I'm not feelin' those deathly ways.
Other strange Korn videos
What do dead bodies have to do with this sex he's dreaming about all day?
Was he in women's underclothes strictly to be funny, or was he hinting at other hidden things? (No, I'm not calling him a transvestite or drag queen.)
Handlers keeping an eye on Korn, weird bug-like thing under their skin. The lyrics alone speak for themselves.
Angelina Jolie's in this video. There's also a lot of symbolism literally flying around.
Breaking mirrors, world crashing down around them, just to start
Featuring Lil Jon as Jon Davis, Xzibit as Fieldy, David Banner as David Silveria, and Snoop Dogg as Munky. David models for Sexy Beast Cologne...I doubt he modelled for this company! Regardless of anything, I still find this video to be amusing.
Disturbing album covers
The sheep will follow the girl in red right off the cliff
I believe this is the album cover that a fan designed. I remember Korn held a contest while at the top of their game, and it was for a fan to design the cover of their (then) next album. I'm pretty certain this was the winner, or at least one of them. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Woah! WTF?
Lyrics from Korn's first single, Blind:
"This place inside my mind
A place I'd like to hide
You don't know the chances
What if I should die?
A place inside my brain
another kind of pain
You don't know the chances
I'm so blind!"
"...deeper inside, wanting to live a life that seems to be
A lost reality, that I can never find
A way to reach my inner self, I stand alone
How deep can I go, in the ground that I lay?
If I don't find a way to see through the gray that clouds my mind
This time I look to see what's between the lines..."
In 2005, Brian "Head" Welch left Korn and found Christianity. In an interview with MTV News he made some interesting comments:
"I love everybody in the band — I was afraid to leave. It made me sad to think that I would be hurting the band if I left. For the last year and a half, I wanted to leave, but someone would always talk to me and convince me to stay," Welch said. "But I've had a problem with the way things were going since the second record. I mean, we would do things, and I would be like, 'Oh, this is metal! This is the rock and roll life!' But inside, I thought they took it too far. It was a little too crude for me."
"I think it made the guys mad. It confused them. I left at the worst possible time. We got off Sony, and all the money was there, we were going to own all of our songs, but I had to prove to myself that money wasn't my God," he said. "I talked to Jonathan [Davis] and he said, 'I don't get it, man, you're all happy and we're sitting here grieving because our band is breaking up. And I wanted to tell him, 'Well, for years, you guys were out partying while I was sitting on the tour bus wanting to die.' "
In retaliation to Head's leaving and newfound Christianity, this t-shirt was released.
