Freak on a leash

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Freak on a leash
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publication May 25, 1999 (single)
length 4:15
Genre (s) Nu metal
album Follow the leader

Freak on a Leash (English for: " Crazy on a Leash ") is a song by the US Nu-Metal band Korn. It was released as the fifth and final single from the third studio album Follow the Leader .

Music video

The music video was directed by Todd McFarlane , who also designed the comic-style cover of Follow the Leader . Some of the video was also drawn as a comic.

It shows a city at night. Suddenly the lights go on in all the houses you can see and children run into the street. The children climb over the fences of a cordoned off facility. The guard who is present notices this, takes a pistol and a flashlight and goes to see. The stuff was on the album cover of Follow the Leader . The children (Korn can also be seen in a scene as children) gather around a ledge. A girl paints a hummingbird in the ground and wants to hop over it. The other children step back. The girl throws a chain over the box. Then the child jumps over him himself. The security guard discovers the children and is shocked because this is the scenario on the album cover. Even so, he continues to advance and through the group of children. In doing so, he trips over one foot. He loses his pistol when he falls. While the girl has reached the end of the box, the pistol hits the ground. This triggers a shot. The bullet flies just past the girl's head. This scene is a poster in reality. The ball comes out of the poster and pierces its way through all sorts of objects without losing speed. Soon the ball arrives at a grain poster. It shows the band in a darkened room that is perforated so that light shines into it. It flies into the poster and "walks" past the members in turn. Then she leaves the poster and goes back to the starting point. On the way there, she again destroys everything that stands in her way. When the ball is back in the Follow the Leader poster, it “stops” in front of the girl. The girl catches them and hands them to the guard who is lying on the ground. Then all the children run out of the facility. The guard remains pensive with the bullet in his hands.

Live performances

The song has been standard at Korn concerts since Follow the Leader was released . Since then it has been played live over 600 times. On the tour of Korn's seventh studio album See You on the Other Side , the song was played several times with Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor , including at the Download Festival 2006. At the MTV unplugged concert in December In 2006, the song was performed together with Amy Lee by the band Evanescence and also released as a single.

Chart placements

Album version

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1999 Freak on a Leash
Follow the Leader 		DE58 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - UK24 (2 weeks)
UK 		-

Unplugged version

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2007 Freak on a Leash (Unplugged)
MTV Unplugged: Korn 		- - - - US89 (1 week)
US
feat. Amy Lee

Versions as a single

European single version 1

  1. Freak on a Leash (Album Version) - 4:15
  2. Freak on a Leash (Freakin 'Bitch Mix) - 4:01
  3. Freak on a Leash (Josh A's Beast On A Leash Mix) - 4:18
  4. Freak on a Leash (Lethal Freak Mix) - 3:38

European single version 2

  1. Freak on a Leash (Album Version) - 4:15
  2. Freak on a Leash (Dante Ross Mix) - 4:47
  3. Freak on a Leash (Freakin 'Bitch Mix) - 4:01
  4. Freak on a Leash (Josh A's Beast On A Leash Mix) - 4:18
  5. Freak on a Leash (Lethal Freak Mix) - 3:38
  6. Freak on a Leash (One Shot Remix) - 5:03

Awards

The music video for Freak on a Leash was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1999. The video ultimately won awards in the Best Rock Video and Best Editing categories . In 2000 the song was nominated at the 42nd Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Short Form Music Video . The latter could win grain. The award for Best Hard Rock Performance went to Metallica for Whiskey in the Jar . In Australia, the single was also awarded a gold record.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1430988/19981208/korn.jhtml
  2. ↑ http://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/korn-4bd6d3fe.html?song=Freak+on+a+Leash
  3. ↑ http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/korn/2006/donington-park-castle-donington-england-2bd07c6a.html
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH US @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  5. ↑ Freak on a Leash in the Official UK Charts (English)
  6. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1999/mtvvmas.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/videos.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/hardrock.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-singles-1999.htm