*First time hearing* [Industry Ghostwriter] Reacts to: Corey Taylor- Snuff - WHO IS THIS ABOUT?😔

[@TheSyncos]

This one has a dual meaning for Corey now. Originally the song was written about a relationship. Corey didn't really write things for Slipknot, but when Paul Gray the bassist heard it, he basically championed for it to be finished and released as a Slipknot track. Paul passed away in 2010 from an overdose of mixing meds. So for Corey it's not just about lost love, but also the loss of one of a close friend.

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

Thank you for the background boss 🙏

[@Gantali9305]

@@CliffBeatsOfficial If you like this you should check out CTaylor's other band Stone sour.

[@barbaravance6774]

@@Gantali9305 Agreed!

[@mattlane4367]

Your so right. Except Corey has always written for slipknot or he would've left years ago.

[@Emilie-one]

This song gives me goosebumps and tears … Corey has an amazing voice.

[@dangalf84]

If you like Corey Taylor see his own band Stone Sour. "Through Glass" is were I'd start.

[@croston81]

RIP paul gray much luv brother

[@SparkimusPrime]

This is one of the greatest songs ever. To me. 🖤

[@StonedTechN9cian]

carrie knows whats up

[@KrisThroughGlass]

How are you Carrie? It's one of my favorites, too.

[@TheNunian]

Yep, life in a nutshell

[@brodybouillion1750]

This and fiction from a7x are masterpieces

[@Dj-sd1xq]

Excellent reaction my man keep It up.

[@FearDaReaper]

Please please please do ‘bother ‘ performed at the same show. I request it everywhere no one ever does it. The crowd were amazing

[@chewie2648]

Ohhhhh yes. The crowd was so amazing.

[@barbaravance6774]

Absolutely!💕

[@W4ll_fl0w3r]

Taylor has been through one hell of a life and honestly deserves mad props for accomplishing everything he has in life

[@TananJess]

Nearly 2 yrs we've been rockin with you and we're not going anywhere.

[@williamcoyle7500]

He looks to the sky often because every time he plays this phone it in memory to a good friend and bandmate Paul Gray

[@JuniorMonteiroOficial]

So heavy

[@saracunnington8476]

This is beautiful🖤

[@philadelphia3117]

Dude I really appreciated this reaction. You didn't just listen to the lyrics, you heard them and you got it and pretty much called out the story behind the lyrics.

[@mmor7380]

One of my favorite song of all time,

[@asmodeusnord2596]

This song breaks my heart every time I hear it, it came out the same time I was going through my own dark time, and the words resonated to me so hard xx

[@michaelshaffer6108]

Corey Taylor covered rainbows in the dark as well

[@TananJess]

Another great reaction brother Real recognize real.

[@MyReallyCleverHandle]

"It took the death of hope to let you go." - anyone who has ever gone through a bad breakup can't help but feel that line right in the pit of their stomach.

[@ursulaturner7980]

One of my favorite lines.

[@prestonsill674]

“If you still care, don’t ever let me know” Kills me every time.

[@mikeredd8833]

Went to a slipknot show last night. I fell in love all over again

[@ursulaturner7980]

"It took the death of hope to let you go." " Angels lie to keep control." The lyrics are fucking fire 🔥

[@DAZI1988]

Corey´s Voice is sooo Good, goes straight to my heart 🤩

[@jessicaclark5968]

I wish I would like this more than once. Thank you so much for doing this song

[@TananJess]

What's up brother we appreciate all your content 🙏

[@snack_bar2474]

Been a maggot ever since I was a baby. This song, Circle, and Vermillion PT.2 are some of the best songs you’ll hear, with his voice. And then Not Long For This World is still my favorite Slipknot song, the lyrics mean a lot to me.

[@RavennaBlack]

This song always gets me!! 🖤🖤🖤

[@AndrewJohnson-ku9rd]

Man, if you’re a Slipknot fan and want more of Corey singing, check out Stone Sour.

[@matthewconnor8038]

Stone sour I guarantee you've herd of them on MTV or Vh1 and Correy Taylor is the lead singer of both bands. He's a master of the craft and his Son Griffin is on the way

[@jasonmiller6136]

You should do Hate Me by Blue October. Similar vibes and a really good song

[@Sympanet]

He did an acoustic version of his song with Stone Sour called Song #3. It’s a dope video/recording.

[@ThatCheekyWalrus]

How does one begin ghostwriting? I've been writing poetry and songwriting since childhood but figured I was just meant for labour since I'm a big dude. At near 30 I'm realizing if I keep going with labour I'm going to off myself so I have been contemplating trying to make my hobby / mental exercises into a career.

[@TananJess]

Keep going man cliff has other platforms to go on and checkout along with other platforms American song writers has a forum that you can submit stuff too even if it isn't in a standard song form, if that's what really helps don't give up on that there's way to many places to get help, you don't have to be in your head alone, you never know how your choice to keep going and trying could be the difference in writing something that saves someone else's life also.

[@toddmiller1498]

The question of what or who the song is about has been asked many times. I was there and I know but, as open as Corey is about most of his life I am not familiar with him ever discussing the back story to Snuff. Due to that I don't feel right in disclosing it either. This was recorded after Paul's passing and the song meant something to Paul which is why Corey kept looking upward.

[@Matjo7588dk]

There are times when he does this he actually does break down in tears.. Some can be found on YT.

[@psychosocial1917]

He looks up to the sky in remembrance of his best friend and Slipknot bassist Paul Gray who died. RIP brothers Paul and now Joey Jordison 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@tripowthehipow5054]

@PsYcHoSocial thank you for fucking recognizing Paul and Joey

[@lashedsuns4529]

Rest in power, Paul -- you're missed by maggots everywhere.

[@tripowthehipow5054]

WTF Paul and joey stop ignoring joey

[@Tessimistic420]

This the live? This brings tears every time.❤️❤️❤️❤️ Edit: I love the crowd in this one it gives me gooseflesh too, also yes someone passed.

[@tripowthehipow5054]

R.I.P Paul and Joey we all miss you

[@Mitwadus]

If there’s one Corey Taylor/Stone sour song you need to hear it’s Bother. Either the live version he did solo or the music video. (Which is impactful)

[@krw73]

Everyone else did a great job explaining. It started off as a song of hurt from someone who left him and ultimately took on double meaning when his best friend died helping him write it

[@johnrhyne9729]

Paul didn’t die while they were writing this.

[@jamesbench2032]

Zzyx road is another banger

[@kristofergreen4299]

The song is about someone that helped him through a very dark time, most believe it to be related to his band member and long time best friend Paul Gray who passed away due to an overdose in 2010. Corey fell for the person who helped him through this, but they didn't reciprocate the feelings the same way. It broke him but helped him discover himself.

[@zergonomic1821]

It was written about Corey's ex-wife Scarlett, who helped him through his alcoholism and suicide attempts. It was recorded months before Gray's death. According to Corey Taylor himself; "Again, not naming names, it's about someone who helped me through a lot and I thought she felt the same way that I did and then she really let me down." Though since Gray's death he has dedicated the song to him in live performances.

[@snakeinthegrak8969]

I relate to this song soooooo much. So much so my friends are not allowed to play it around me. This one is just an alone song.

[@W4ll_fl0w3r]

being as empathetic as you are it may have been better that you didn't know Corey's back story before listening to this one for the first time... i don't think I could have.. but after hearing the song knowing that Corey had recently opened up I felt he deserved the respect to find out... and it kicked my a#$... hearing the song again put everything into a much different perspective that wrecked me pretty good for a couple of days but I was foolish enough to do all of this with my best friend at the time so did so managing the weight of all three of our emotions... that friend was only with us another 2yrs so I'm sure you can imagine the weight he was carrying when he story wasn't far from Corey's... much love and mad respect to Corey and yourself... ❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤😳❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯❤💯

[@briancolvin4319]

Would love to see you do some Aitch

[@robbytucker6496]

Its a song originally written by Corey when he was going threw his divorce from first wife. Then it came to take on another meaning to him and band

[@ChaosTool93]

I would love to see you react to bother by stone sour, the other band from Corey Taylor Keep spreading the love man!

[@Kdog4660]

This song kind of hits hard, because of the whole entire theme of somebody helping you through a dark time, and then abandoning you, went through got a few years back, If looking to Branch out from hip Hop/rap I would recommend metallica, slayer, and just so many bands like that then you have like Viking metal Amon Amarth, or pirate metal like alestorm.

[@mudvayne20056969]

You gotta check out Chasing Shadows and Alleviate by Imminence 🔥Two different songs in one music video and their a metalcore band that hits the same way as NF but even harder imo (Eddie Berg's vocals, lyrics and violin are INSANE)

[@mattcoupe2150]

You should react to spit it out live at download 2009. Just epic crowd control

[@UltimateGamerCC]

you should definitely check out more Slipknot man, once a maggot, always a maggot, dude.

[@desireezachry8086]

That was ur sexiest reaction period!!!!

[@russellrofe4849]

Check out a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound Of Silence" by Disturbed.

[@williamswiniuch7527]

Pretty sure he has

[@SamEVO69]

Tech N9ne and Corey Taylor have a song together called Wither if you want to put it on your list

[@stephencarmack3939]

To my knowledge this was about his friend and former band mate that passed. Effected him deeply. I am a huge hip hop head but grew up with a lot of Slipknot. Definitely dive into them and Stone Sour, another Corey Taylor lead vocal.

[@Sympanet]

It’s not about Paul, but he began to dedicate it to him after he died because it was his favorite of their songs.

[@KrisThroughGlass]

Well, obviously I'll suggest Through Glass by Stone Sour (Coreys second band). Please don't apologize for paying attention to the lyrics. If you didn't, it would feel like you don't care because you don't expect anything good from other genres anyway (I know you do, though!). Greetings from Germany

[@williamswiniuch7527]

It’s actually his first band

[@KrisThroughGlass]

@@williamswiniuch7527 I know and didn't mean it in a chronological sense. "Other" band would have probably been better. Non native speaker here. Sorry!

[@williamswiniuch7527]

@@KrisThroughGlass no worries!

[@brianl376]

Vermillion pt 2 is my favorite slipknot song man. Really a completely different tune than you would think comes from slipknot

[@dadscapes1125]

One of the more hip hop inspired slipknot songs would be Spit it Out from the self titled album You should definitely check out the “jump the fuck up” video from Download Festival

[@alexholmquist2460]

STONE SOUR: Through Glass enjoy you seeing him espousing the bs we see

[@markrenton8245]

Since you're a lyrics guy, check out Frank Turner - Haven't been doing well Pretty sure he's not gonna block it either.

[@GreenBayPack]

Not only does MGK upset Stans, but then doubles down and gets heat from The Maggots.😄 At least he was good on Jackass Forever.

[@f.b.jeffers0n]

Might not get likes, but I'll keep requesting Cradle of Filth - Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess because Dani has bars...

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i think CoF is a little too heavy for Cliff tbh.

[@beastmode8985]

This song was originally written about a failed relationship. However, when his best friend, Slipknot bassist Paul Grey killed himself, he said it took on a dual meaning for him.

[@metalmellie4371]

It's because of a girl I've heard.

[@AmericanGadfly]

Yup. He loved her, she didnt love him.

[@coletollison5128]

Popular Monster by Falling in Reverse... please

[@Kori247]

You should check out avenged sevenfold next

[@jamesbench2032]

Ok.. Soooo.. You.. Did slipknot too.. Brooooo... Please do cmft must be stopped

[@copeboy25]

Day 17 asking for some Ak he super dope and you would love his music. Ak industry baby remix Ak made one Ak what's life Ak betting on me

[@Warchild0311]

F

[@mnimic1]

Have you been living under a rock 😂

[@CliffBeatsOfficial]

Yes, A big rock due to my career.