Korn, ‘Take a Look In the Mirror’
By user • Dec 4th, 2003 • Category: Album Reviews
There are numerous ways a songwriter can express intelligently how dissatisfied he or she is.
Unfortunately, leading a repetitive chant of “F— that” 33 times isn’t one of them.
There are numerous ways a songwriter can express intelligently how irritated he or she is.
Unfortunately, leading a chant of “Shut up” 30 times isn’t one of them. (Deja vu?)
The lyrical travesty on “Take A Look in The Mirror” exhibits the rut Korn has been in for a decade.
Its sixth record is another collection of hackneyed tales about depression in the world of its singer, Jonathan Davis.
The 14 songs prove how utterly miserable and lonely the life of a multi-platinum celebrity can be.
Songs such as “Did My Time,” claiming “I just beg and plead/ For this curse to leave,” and “I’m Done,” which proclaims “I’m done being there for others/ They have their pain and so do I,” are just two of the album’s unhappy moments.
In fact, not one jovial, pleased or even mildly content moment exists on the recording.
Davis not only has mastered the art of excessive gloom, the 32-year-old has become the poster boy for a mid-life crisis, as his belated feelings of teenage angst reach a pinnacle on “Counting On Me.” The track features lines like “Why don’t you just shut your face?”
The album supplies Korn’s traditional melodic approach with definitive bass drops, distorted guitars and metallic drums.
A hidden track, a live cover of Metallica’s “One,” proves Korn cannot resist the temptation to combine forces with another of rock’s most contrived farces.
Not even a duet with Nas, on the track “Play Me,” can salvage “Take A Look In The Mirror.”
Davis has perfected the concept of life imitating art with the track titled “When Will This End.”
Northern Star, Dec. 4, 2003
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