Korn - Life Is Peachy

Tonight's album is a doozie. Before i say anything else, i need to make it clear that this album isn't critqueable. It's simply a fact in the space-time continuum of the universe. It's Jack Harkness. It makes us time lords queasy, but we can't do anything about it.

Life Is Peachy.

You can feel the sarcasm burn your retinas when you read those 3 words.

There is no pretense to Korn. There's no artifice, no gimmick, no image. Listening to a Korn album is essentially watching Jonathan Davis's regression therapy. The world fucked him up, and his friends and a lot of meth, cocaine, and alcohol made the world well aware of that fact.

The outrageous metaphors have to be outrageous. Whining, screaming, and tazmanian devil-ing are about the only way you can vocally express it. Every member of the band is playing a different genre. You're supposed to watch it happen and become very aware that that is a world in which you do not live. You can't possibly understand it. A hundred other bands tried to get close, but Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory is as good as it gets. Nu Metal is what we call all the bands that tried to copy these two. Maybe i'll write about that album sometime.

I don't want to ruin your entire evening, so we'll just leave it at he was molested, he tried to tell his parents, and they said he was a liar. That's Korn. If you think the entire biography of Korn is a work of fiction, then you probably think you work for money, or that firemen are trying to save YOUR house by putting out your grease fire, or that the grocery store makes your food, or that restaurants in China are somehow different from restaurants in America, or that "placebo" is a synonym for "guinea pig." Yay, topicality!

You can like it or hate it or desperately try to ignore it, but Life Is Peachy is an entire multi-discipline Doctorate in its own right.

All that being said, i hate hate hate hate hate that goddamned clicking!

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