Korn front man Jonathan Davis digs Duran Duran
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Korn front man Jonathan Davis has an admission to make: he really digs listening to Duran Duran.
“My music taste is so eclectic,” Davis told the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper in Sunday’s editions.
“The other day, I was listening to the Xanadu soundtrack. That song Whenever You’re Away From Me just rocks. And then after that I was listening to Cannibal Corpse.”
The heavy-metal band, whose songs include Wake Up Hate and Dead Bodies Everywhere, has released its sixth CD, Take a Look in the Mirror, after winning a Grammy Award for best metal performance and playing the Ozzfest Tour in 2003.
The new album has plenty of the angst and anger that has typified previous Korn records, said Davis, 32.
“There was a lot of stuff going on in my life when I was doing this record that made me want to scream. I don’t scream for the sake of screaming.”
“Things just happened that pushed me in that direction,” he said.
When prodded, Davis said many things enraged him: “Problems with my girl. Problems with my family.”
“Business relationships. Friends. You name it.”
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)
I like the fact that he thinks listening to ELO, Duran Duran and Cannibal Corpse makes him eclectic. He's so cute.
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
He's, like, "out there". Totally.
― peepee (peepee), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
How can something be an admission when he's been SAYING that since 1994? His whole backstory was that he was beaten up by Bakersfield peers in high school for liking (ahem) 'fag music' but as Dan Perry and I have noted given the mind-numbing rottenness of his music, his problem was that he wasn't beaten up enough.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
In his defense, he does play the bagpipes.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)
I also like that he had to be prodded to give up what makes him so angsty.
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)