Everyone puts a lot of focus on his Metal Skat but don’t realize that there’s no other band that has it integrally in their music. Unlike original Skat, that was widely spread throughout music in that era, Jonathan is probably the only person that can pull off the Metal Skat in numerous songs and it be amazing every time you hear it. He’s a pioneer in every sense of the word, even if no one can produce the same sound and feelings that his Metal Skat can produce. I love KoЯn 🤘🏼🏴 Ⓐ
except Steven Tyler from Areosmith, David Lee Roth from Van Halen, Freddie Mercury and one of Davis's inspirations Mike Patton all use it in rock and metal songs, many of which were played on the radio. It is actually used more often than you know in songs.
@@marksmith2402 I said Metal Skat. That’s just skat in Rock songs. Totally different. Patton is the only one that comes close to Metal out of those people you mentioned.
@@DefinitelyNotBender where do you think metal came from? It doesn't exist in a vacuum and it always has shared space with rock and sticking the word metal in front doesn't actually make that singing technique new. Davis listened to and heard all these bands. Also Patton, with Mr Bungle and Faith No More both around at this time, are extremely metal and heavier than Korn. Van Halen is on edge between 80's metal and rock, and Aerosmith is hard rock. That's only stuff played on the radio he would have definitely heard. You do realize Davis also isn't the first rock or metal singer to pull bag pipes out on stage, right?
@@marksmith2402 damn, are you always this pretentious when having a conversation? Or just online? Most of what you typed is non sequential to my original statement. I specifically was talking about Metal Skat. I’m sure I know as much as you do about music. But I don’t go out of my way to try and flaunt it. Because when I do I get people like you that can’t read and then try arguing about a non argument. I said what I said and no one is going to convince me that what I said is incorrect. I don’t care about anything you typed or that would have been in my original comment. Just because there was influence from those other people that does not make the two forms of Skat the same. That’s infantile thinking. Also Mr. Bungle and Faith No More were hard but not Metal and nowhere near as heavy as KoЯn. As for the Bagpipe part, I’m not even going to address that because you were just being condescending again. Ended the same way you began the conversation, defensive and sassy, like a teenage girl defending her favorite boy bands. Maybe converse with people in a non infantile manner and you’ll get a legit conversation.
I don't think a lot of people properly appreciate the vocal acrobatics going on when Jon does the "metal scat". He pioneered it, ever emulated but never duplicated. A lot of rock/metal singers do insane things vocally. And can we just take a second to say that Fieldy is an amazing bass player!
The "Freak on a Leash" music video was released on February 5, 1999 ( a month before the US release of 'The Matrix' on March 31, 1999). Directed by Todd McFarlane in Los Angeles, California, the video explores both animations and live performances mixed together. As a result, the band released a music video that won five awards.
I saw Korn in 1995 in Tuscon Az when they were touring their first album and it blew me away...NOBODY was doing what Head and Monky were doing on 7 string guitars back then..great song and vid 👍✌️🤘
The kids playing hopscotch is artwork from the album. This video was pretty visually epic for it's time. Thanks for the reaction! And, yes. I had a Motorola AK-800 brick phone. How far we have come! ;)
The original studio recording was written in 1997, and recorded in May of 1998. The initial release was on the album "Follow the LeadeR" in August 1998, and performed live in the tour that followed in later 1998, with a single release following in Feb 1999.
After watching multiple reactions to this official music video, I’ve been thinking this may be their masterpiece, in certain ways. From the nu metal groove to the unique guitar effects to the scatting and growling, they wrote a track that shows their pieces and parts as an excellent whole.
I was in my last year of school when this came out. I had never seen a music video like this before and I was instantly in awe 🤯 Jonathan's vocals are one of a kind
Yes!!! Thank you! You’re the first reactor that has finally mentioned Inuit throat singing!! It’s sounds like a combination of that, rap and scat. Very cool.
"FAlling Away From Me" video is related/connected to this, please do that next time! And "Rotting in Vain" for more of that "when he cut lose" moment :D
I love Johnson Davis and his amazing voice cause i've see a live video Video from this song and i hear him do this live ! I love your channel very much ! Greatings and love from germany ♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️
Believe it or not, I actually had a bigger cell phone with a cord attached to a battery so big it was in its own luggage. Yes, I’m that old of a Korn fan. Loved em then, still love em now. Thank you for checking this classic out.
I am in my 60s and have been on a journey to see all the hype I missed doing the corporate / family .. decades that seems to have precluded so much different music. Just tried out KORN this year and fell in love. Good to hear your take on it... especially the recognition that this was probably unheard of back when it came out. My path never crossed it. Thank God for the internet and videos and now .. even reactors to share the exciting journey with. thank you.
Totally used a cell phone like that in high school. Damn thing took up a whole back pocket but we felt so cool. My friend’s parents made us take it with us when we went to the Vegas strip.
Kilt? Correct and he plays bagpipes on selective moments on their albums.... I am surprised you did not use the term "wordless vocals" to denote that vocal section to use a jazz term.... Love your channel and you should do an reaction to the polyphonic vocalist Diamanda Galas! She only can sing from a F2-to-B6-to even C#8... That is NOT a typo btw
this song is really great, i went to a concert years back and it was fantastic! after all this years still a greatone. great reaction as usual. here is my request: please, susanne sundfor, when the lord. or whatever song you pick. but this one would be highly appreciated!
My dad worked for Mitsubishi electric & we had ALL the things, it was great. It was a car phone but you could remove it from the car & conveniently cart the shoe box size battery & handset when you needed to be out of the car 😅 I just aged myself but yeah I remember ringing my best mate a few doors down then knocked on her door & that was cool. But the cost of calls was massive & dad's just let this little kid wander off with a VERY expensive piece of kit lol
5:09 "That's an old cellphone" ..... actually not the oldest I've seen. The first cell phone I ever saw was a big block with an earpiece/horn connected to the block with a spiral cord. The push-button dial was on the block. In affect it was a fixed-line phone with a radio in it. It was akin to a military field-phone. Amazingly the guy had placed it in his shopping cart while being at the local supermarket. At the time having a buzzer was a thing.
i love korn i hope you do more of them just becarefull for the song daddy look it up on the wiki first its a very painfull song. alot of ppl seem to suggest that song instantly for shocking reaction but it kinda scared ppl away from korn.
I remember the first time i saw one of those phones flying through the air like a brick as the Yuppee owner was thrown bodily out of Sinclairs Oyster bar in Manchester in the late 80s......your still not allowed to use electronic devices in there....on pain of ejection and a possible ban.....there is a sign as you go in....phone away..talk to strangers🍺👍😊
The video actually has to do with this song. Was 3 on the Billboard 200. Korn won their first GRAMMY at the 42nd GRAMMY Awards for Best Short Form Music Video for "Freak On A Leash.
I wish I could get a cell phone with a large antenna... Signal reception just keeps getting worse as phones get better... And yes.. I had one of those... Lol
Gday mate. Love your videos. I cant sing for shit but love hearing you analyze some if my favorite artists. More Iron Maiden, more Mike Patton 🙏. Maybe some Deftones. Keep it up
Nobody sounded like Korn.....Korn blew our minds. This was out in February of 1999, and The Matrix came out in March. So....there might have been some cross influence with the Matrix trailers. Hard to say.
I have and probably never will get Korn. Its like someone whining into the mic interspersed with bouts of tourettes over a bass sound that is the equivalent of playing drums on Tupperware...flopedy plopedy flopedy plopedy seriously it sounds like way too floppy rubber strings over a shoe box 😂
I don’t think you appreciate the level of talent it would take to create something like this when no one else was doing it sounded kinda snobby from you my guy like you know how to do it or you could do better or something I dunno maybe I’m just not reading this reaction right
I think of it as just "metalized beatboxing" which is really what I think it is. He's beatboxing, but he's beatboxing electronic, a-traditional sounds that are only somewhat like the drums you and samples that you might expect from a band like Slipknot.
Everyone puts a lot of focus on his Metal Skat but don’t realize that there’s no other band that has it integrally in their music. Unlike original Skat, that was widely spread throughout music in that era, Jonathan is probably the only person that can pull off the Metal Skat in numerous songs and it be amazing every time you hear it. He’s a pioneer in every sense of the word, even if no one can produce the same sound and feelings that his Metal Skat can produce. I love KoЯn 🤘🏼🏴 Ⓐ
except Steven Tyler from Areosmith, David Lee Roth from Van Halen, Freddie Mercury and one of Davis's inspirations Mike Patton all use it in rock and metal songs, many of which were played on the radio. It is actually used more often than you know in songs.
@@marksmith2402 I said Metal Skat. That’s just skat in Rock songs. Totally different. Patton is the only one that comes close to Metal out of those people you mentioned.
@@DefinitelyNotBender agreed, nobody else does it like Johnathan Davis!
@@DefinitelyNotBender where do you think metal came from? It doesn't exist in a vacuum and it always has shared space with rock and sticking the word metal in front doesn't actually make that singing technique new. Davis listened to and heard all these bands. Also Patton, with Mr Bungle and Faith No More both around at this time, are extremely metal and heavier than Korn. Van Halen is on edge between 80's metal and rock, and Aerosmith is hard rock. That's only stuff played on the radio he would have definitely heard. You do realize Davis also isn't the first rock or metal singer to pull bag pipes out on stage, right?
@@marksmith2402 damn, are you always this pretentious when having a conversation? Or just online? Most of what you typed is non sequential to my original statement. I specifically was talking about Metal Skat. I’m sure I know as much as you do about music. But I don’t go out of my way to try and flaunt it. Because when I do I get people like you that can’t read and then try arguing about a non argument. I said what I said and no one is going to convince me that what I said is incorrect. I don’t care about anything you typed or that would have been in my original comment. Just because there was influence from those other people that does not make the two forms of Skat the same. That’s infantile thinking. Also Mr. Bungle and Faith No More were hard but not Metal and nowhere near as heavy as KoЯn. As for the Bagpipe part, I’m not even going to address that because you were just being condescending again. Ended the same way you began the conversation, defensive and sassy, like a teenage girl defending her favorite boy bands. Maybe converse with people in a non infantile manner and you’ll get a legit conversation.
Artist Todd McFarlane, known for Spawn, Spiderman, and others, animated the opening sequence of this video
Cool! Didn't know that.
Thanks for that info - I’ve always appreciated his style of illustration
I don't think a lot of people properly appreciate the vocal acrobatics going on when Jon does the "metal scat". He pioneered it, ever emulated but never duplicated. A lot of rock/metal singers do insane things vocally. And can we just take a second to say that Fieldy is an amazing bass player!
The "Freak on a Leash" music video was released on February 5, 1999 ( a month before the US release of 'The Matrix' on March 31, 1999). Directed by Todd McFarlane in Los Angeles, California, the video explores both animations and live performances mixed together. As a result, the band released a music video that won five awards.
07:33 one of the best drops in music history
Expected more of a reaction to the song than the video.
I saw Korn in 1995 in Tuscon Az when they were touring their first album and it blew me away...NOBODY was doing what Head and Monky were doing on 7 string guitars back then..great song and vid 👍✌️🤘
The kids playing hopscotch is artwork from the album. This video was pretty visually epic for it's time. Thanks for the reaction!
And, yes. I had a Motorola AK-800 brick phone. How far we have come! ;)
Yes Ken, I do remember having a phone like that. Thanks for reminding me.
The original studio recording was written in 1997, and recorded in May of 1998. The initial release was on the album "Follow the LeadeR" in August 1998, and performed live in the tour that followed in later 1998, with a single release following in Feb 1999.
Ya know, these effects still hold up phenomenally well, considering that this is a 25 year old video. Pretty damn good by even by modern standards.
After watching multiple reactions to this official music video, I’ve been thinking this may be their masterpiece, in certain ways. From the nu metal groove to the unique guitar effects to the scatting and growling, they wrote a track that shows their pieces and parts as an excellent whole.
I was in my last year of school when this came out. I had never seen a music video like this before and I was instantly in awe 🤯 Jonathan's vocals are one of a kind
It’s like heavy metal beatboxing
If you want to see Korn's energy live, Woodstock 99 is a popular choice.
There is a live acoustic version of this with Any Lee of Evanescence sing with Jonathan Davis that you should check out.
Flashbacks to my middle school music tastes and TRL. I feel old now. I loved this song back then though, the whole album was really good.
I love seeing vocal coaches react to these guys, the looks on there faces is gold
I remember those old cell phones. I never had one but my Mom and sister both had a few of them throughout the years.
Its difficult for me to imagine that Someone doesnt know this Song or Music Video it was on Mtv Like once an hour in 1997 or 1998.
Back then when the radio played more than one genre
Yes!!! Thank you! You’re the first reactor that has finally mentioned Inuit throat singing!! It’s sounds like a combination of that, rap and scat. Very cool.
The cartoon was made for this.
Hmm, nobody's mentioned "falling away from me" yet, which is the video that follows this one by KoRn.
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Yep 253 mill is popular for a song there was 10 years old when you tube started.
Its at like 270 mil now
"FAlling Away From Me" video is related/connected to this, please do that next time! And "Rotting in Vain" for more of that "when he cut lose" moment :D
Back in the day we called them phones ''THE BRICK''
I love Johnson Davis and his amazing voice cause i've see a live video Video from this song and i hear him do this live ! I love your channel very much ! Greatings and love from germany ♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️
Believe it or not, I actually had a bigger cell phone with a cord attached to a battery so big it was in its own luggage. Yes, I’m that old of a Korn fan. Loved em then, still love em now. Thank you for checking this classic out.
Finally! Thank you so much for that! Song is from 1998. It's one of the best Nu Metal Songs of all time! Thanks!! Many greets from Germany!
I am in my 60s and have been on a journey to see all the hype I missed doing the corporate / family .. decades that seems to have precluded so much different music. Just tried out KORN this year and fell in love. Good to hear your take on it... especially the recognition that this was probably unheard of back when it came out. My path never crossed it. Thank God for the internet and videos and now .. even reactors to share the exciting journey with. thank you.
now you need to cheek out blind its awesome korn are stil my fave nu metal band
6:25 - Scat singing in Jazz also.
In case you haven't found out for yourself/no one else has commented. This song came out the year before The Matrix.
I've been going crazy trying to figure out who Ken reminds me of, and then it finally dawned on me.....he's Paul Rudd's doppelganger!
Totally used a cell phone like that in high school. Damn thing took up a whole back pocket but we felt so cool. My friend’s parents made us take it with us when we went to the Vegas strip.
Korn❤ Legendary Jonathan there is no one like him
To my knowledge it was created for the music video
Hahah I love how you randomly asked “is he wearing a kilt??” Lol
Kilt? Correct and he plays bagpipes on selective moments on their albums.... I am surprised you did not use the term "wordless vocals" to denote that vocal section to use a jazz term.... Love your channel and you should do an reaction to the polyphonic vocalist Diamanda Galas! She only can sing from a F2-to-B6-to even C#8... That is NOT a typo btw
this song is really great, i went to a concert years back and it was fantastic! after all this years still a greatone.
great reaction as usual.
here is my request: please, susanne sundfor, when the lord. or whatever song you pick. but this one would be highly appreciated!
Cartoon was made for music vid....Korn appear in it as kids. It was animated by the creator of the Spawn comics. Todd McFarlane
the MC on the sign means "municipal code", and it was followed by a number.
my uncle had one of those phones it came with this huge bag case for his car
When you said it's probably still being played on radios all over the world I pictured an old gal in a Burmesian rice paddy splashin' around to this.
Guard only coffee, there was no YT in those days...
Great song, very good MV.
Btw. Korn grew up in grunge music and it's very clear here.
I thinkbyou would get a kick out of Korn's Twist.
And dont forget... Daddy... If you think you are ready for it.
Korn and SP. Two of the best bands ever!
My dad worked for Mitsubishi electric & we had ALL the things, it was great. It was a car phone but you could remove it from the car & conveniently cart the shoe box size battery & handset when you needed to be out of the car 😅 I just aged myself but yeah I remember ringing my best mate a few doors down then knocked on her door & that was cool.
But the cost of calls was massive & dad's just let this little kid wander off with a VERY expensive piece of kit lol
5:09 "That's an old cellphone" ..... actually not the oldest I've seen. The first cell phone I ever saw was a big block with an earpiece/horn connected to the block with a spiral cord. The push-button dial was on the block. In affect it was a fixed-line phone with a radio in it. It was akin to a military field-phone. Amazingly the guy had placed it in his shopping cart while being at the local supermarket. At the time having a buzzer was a thing.
the guard watching youtube videos? this video was released 6 years before youtube. makes you think of how young youtube is and how old we are
i love korn i hope you do more of them just becarefull for the song daddy look it up on the wiki first its a very painfull song. alot of ppl seem to suggest that song instantly for shocking reaction but it kinda scared ppl away from korn.
I remember the first time i saw one of those phones flying through the air like a brick as the Yuppee owner was thrown bodily out of Sinclairs Oyster bar in Manchester in the late 80s......your still not allowed to use electronic devices in there....on pain of ejection and a possible ban.....there is a sign as you go in....phone away..talk to strangers🍺👍😊
The video actually has to do with this song. Was 3 on the Billboard 200. Korn won their first GRAMMY at the 42nd GRAMMY Awards for Best Short Form Music Video for "Freak On A Leash.
If you don't have the heart for it stay away from DADDY it not an easy listen
It's called throat singing I studied shamanism it's quite common in indigenous people and their cultures is what your thinking of in the begining
I had one. It was a brick Nextel and it had the walkie talkies
I wish I could get a cell phone with a large antenna... Signal reception just keeps getting worse as phones get better... And yes.. I had one of those... Lol
I'm not sure it has anything to do with his kilt in this video but, Jonathan is quite the bagpipe player. 🤘
on a side note about the phone, even when the video came out that was a really old cell phone, when this video came out we were using flip phones
Hey bro. You should check this song umplugged featuring Amy Lee from Evanescence. You'll love it.
Cool 👍
Gday mate. Love your videos. I cant sing for shit but love hearing you analyze some if my favorite artists.
More Iron Maiden, more Mike Patton 🙏. Maybe some Deftones.
Keep it up
It is the cover of the album
The phone is either Bosch or Motorola Dynatac.
i would've much preferred you concentrated on the lyrics rather than the video tricks
You look Very Stoned bro love it thumbs up for you my friend and a sub ! And 5 mins in i notice your wearing a tie to Wtfudge is going on !
Next Korn - Thoughtless
Nobody sounded like Korn.....Korn blew our minds. This was out in February of 1999, and The Matrix came out in March. So....there might have been some cross influence with the Matrix trailers. Hard to say.
When you hear the 8 year old girl sing it she gets it spot on check it out
The brick phones still existed then
The phone today, wouldn’t it be now considered a satellite phone?
Looks like a Motorola star tac with the optional longer life battery 🤣
Must admit I wish these kinds of videos would focus less on the film clip and more on the song.
I carried suitcase phone in fiftys
Todd McFarlane working his magic
I used to think Freddie Mercury was the greatest but now I know it's Johnathan Davis!
He definitely is! ❤️ Johnathan Davis!
Wrong. Dani filths vocals destroy Davis
@@christineghere2461Wrong. Dani filth kills Davis
Love most of your reactions, but this one you seem bored. Great song, very little 'analysis' (which is why I subscribe) :(
Would you be interested in checking out some Australian music artists. If so what kind of genre
who do you have in mind?
Artists like, John farnham, silverchair, oliva newton John
The Divinyls
I had a bag phone
it means don't come in!
There’s no way u never heard this song
It’s called scat
Please react to Within Temptation :)
Please react to korn tearjerker
Ken, do you like the track?
I do
I love your channel but Jonathan Davies does not sing ‘nonsense’ and does not sing like a goat!
I have and probably never will get Korn. Its like someone whining into the mic interspersed with bouts of tourettes over a bass sound that is the equivalent of playing drums on Tupperware...flopedy plopedy flopedy plopedy seriously it sounds like way too floppy rubber strings over a shoe box 😂
You are so Harvard.
Are you related to Paul Rudd?
That’s not Nonsense lol
I don’t think you appreciate the level of talent it would take to create something like this when no one else was doing it sounded kinda snobby from you my guy like you know how to do it or you could do better or something I dunno maybe I’m just not reading this reaction right
U have never heard of beat boxing ...I’m guessing
Kolezka rusza sie jakby slyszal Kozidrakowej
Precipice? 🤣
I think of it as just "metalized beatboxing" which is really what I think it is. He's beatboxing, but he's beatboxing electronic, a-traditional sounds that are only somewhat like the drums you and samples that you might expect from a band like Slipknot.
th-cam.com/video/hVcsXsE4_Hc/w-d-xo.html if you have to invent it on the spot, its not much a criticism, is it?
Coffee Urn, really?
Yeah you know what he's always going to be more famous than you, always for real and has legions of fans, you not so much and never will...
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