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you can't really fuck with korn, they might be embarrassing and the kind of thing you totally disavow after a certain age... but really if you go back to it, they dug into a particularily dark corner, were noone else could touch them. it must have taken a particular brand of both real stupidity and utter genius to do what they did
i once read a really excellent thesis someone had posted online, were he talked about the difference between nirvana and korn and manson, he analysed the lyrics in depth and had some really fantastic takes on it. he claimed that korn and manson were completly subsumed inside post modernism in a way that cobain wasn't, cobain still had the activist and punk tendencies albeit in a confused way, whereas korn and manson existed at the point in the 90's post berlin wall and pre 9/11 when it seemed like it really would be post modern capitalism forever. i'm maybe explaining it badly but it was a great peice, would love to find it again.
a kid a bit younger than me recently told me korn is emo, and black flag are aswell. those bands would never have been called that a few years back but i guess it makes sense and they are being coopted into that historical narrative. what comes after emo though? i don't really pay attention to that side of mainstream alternative music anymore but the last i checked there seems to be some sort of emo meets 80's metal pomp and power (in the fashions anyway), a kind of aggressive emo that isn't hardcore. anybody know?
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