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I took these article from www.kornweb.com. I would like if you would take time to read it! I am not sure if you are aware of the magazine called, "Plugged In." It is put out by "Focus on the Family" magazine, a Christian values publication. In the Jan 2000 issue of "Plugged In" they critique Issues. Here is a quote... "Objectionable Content: That obsenity strewn cut (Wake Up) also expresses a defatist desire to surrender and die. Lead singer Jonathan Davis says he feels "like I'm God" despite an overwhelming hatred for everthing and everyone (No Way) He flirts with suicide (Falling Away From Me) battles self destructive demons (Hey Daddy) claims to have evil in his head (Beg For Me) And repeats that he feels like a whore (Dirty) On "Trash" the artist finds young fans a sexual turn on ("I see the flesh and it smells fresh/And its there for the taking/These little girls...make me feel so g--d--- exhilerated") The f-word aggratvates many of these obnoxious tracks. Lyrics such as "Everyone I see is out to get me" and "I need to feel the sickness in you" reveal this bands inner turmoil and bitterness." For some reason I was vaguely offended by this article. I realize the freedom of the press and everything, but some of the views don't seem too acurate to me. They play Jon Davis out to be a suicidal, homicidal maniac that wants to rape his young fans. Maybe if the magazine knew the true meaning behind Korn, they would realize they are family men with values of their own. I pity the parents that read this article and tell their kids not to buy it or something to that affect. The only praise they give Korn is from a few lyrics in Wake Up, "what are we fighting for/you are my brothers/each one I would die for" In the back of the magazine, Bob Waliszewski the Youth Culture Dept Mgr writes an artical titled, "Teens, Hostile Music and "The Pain Factor" where he asks why Christian teens go to church and also crank music that glamorizes knifing a parent or strangling a girlfriend (Korn's Kill You and My Gift to You) attacking someone with a chainsaw (Limp's Break Stuff) commiting suicide with a handgun (NIN's The Downward Spiral) He puts in six tidbits of what kids have written him. Four of which of the blurbs mentions Korn exclusively. All of which try to explain what Korn means to them and why they go to church and at the same time listen to Korn. Obviously the man does not know how to put himself in the place of today's teens. Maybe if he could connect at all with these kids, he would realize how much Korn and similar bands mean to them despite he sings of having a dream of killing his step-mother. Jon Davis can not help what has happened in his and who listens to Korn and who objects to it. Three of the four blurbs from the kids say that Korn has saved their life from suicide at least once. Now how bad can a band or man be that has saved lives and has not knowingly caused suicides? Maybe if the writers of the magazine would come out of their bubble and experience the real world and not through the seeing eye glasses of complete and total Christian values, they would praise Korn for all they have done and all the souls they have saved. If you or anyone else would like to write the magazine as I have the day I read it. The address is: Focus on the Family PO Box 35500 Colorado Springs CO 80935-3550. ISSUES ABOUT DADDY As the echoing screams and painful cries die down, take a moment or two to snap back into reality and realize, it's only a song. The incessant bellows and whines of Korn's Jonathan Davis move some of us, and we are never the same; others hit the stop button and change the CD, before the song is really over, and never understand what's going on. As Jon screeches out moving lyrics like, "'I didn't touch you there', Mommy said she didn't care, 'I didn't touch you there', that's why Mommy stopped and stared." he loops over in the background as he relives the moment once again in the recording studio. Do half the people who listen to Korn stop in the middle of "Daddy" to realizing the sobbing and screaming is real? Accompanied by obscenities and tears. Real tears, real pain, real life. The answer is no. For most of us, we are lucky enough never to experience anything like being raped by our neighbor and having our parents call us liars. But most all of us have something deep down inside that we have craftily blocked. Something that's waiting deep inside of us, waiting to open its jaws and howl. For some of us when we are moved by something, in this case Korn's "Daddy," that thing howls. Maybe it was an abusive alcoholic, maybe it was the absence of a parent, or maybe it was something so horrid we can't seem to remember our lives until we were 12. Many people will deny these things. It is usually the ones whose minds aren't warped, who don't want to deal with tragedies like that. But there are always a few who aren't "normal," who know that thing is down there, waiting, watching. And when something as powerful like this moves them, that thing detaches itself from inside like a zebra muscle on a rock that finally detaches after years of abuse and neglect. Sometimes it is relieving. Sometimes it is not. When this song was recorded, Jonathan Davis sang over pre-recorded music of the rest of the band playing. All his band mates could do was watch the horror show. He was told simply to reach down, re-live it, and he did. He re-lived every horrifying moment of it. And all his closest friends could do was watch in terror. After? They were as shaken as Jon was. The song lasts 9 minutes and 29 seconds. That's 9 ½ minutes of pain, 9 ½ minutes of agony, 9 ½ minutes of something so incredibly horrifying few dare to admit it happens. And all that does not just happen to the man who originally experienced it. The listener-the listener experiences it as well. There are always those who don't hear the pain and torture. Once the music is over, so is the CD. Maybe your one of them, maybe not. Maybe next time you listen to "Daddy" you'll listen, maybe not. If you ever do, really listen. Then maybe the horror will become apparent. This child, savagely raped and beaten, left feeling dirty and hurt. Tied down, ropes burning flesh to the bone, the only witness denies... 
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