Korn - Shoots and Ladders | Singer Reacts |

[@Duct_Tape.]

Ah yes, sweet memories of the crowd tossing each other around to nursery rhymes... Korn live was a good time back in the day.

[@seangrover6101]

The good old days

[@jasonlaviolette2964]

Lollapalooza '97 Randall's Island. Korn only outdone by, of course, Tool!

[@Duct_Tape.]

@@jasonlaviolette2964 I saw that Lollapalooza. In Connecticut. Munky had just come down with meningitis, and could barely play... but did. He was a trooper, but I think they pulled out after that. Tool was magnificent, as always.

[@shawnsolo316]

Seeing them September 2024! Def gonna be worth my money

[@gubnillec]

Saw them in ATL the Metallica mega tour. The Hetfeuld broke my back concert

[@KNUCKL3M4ST3R]

I grew up listening to this band, rough, raw sound, in your face, brutal lyrics, no band at that time played taboo themes in such a crude way, Jonathan Davis had the balls to expose his emotional shortcomings and traumas so openly without a filter. For many of us it was a refuge and a way of reflection to get through hard moments in our lives...you realized that you were not the only one. In addition to this they changed the metal scene forever...many post grunge bands, nu metal and later styles such as deathcore and metalcore have a clear influence on their sound... the first 2 albums are pure gold

[@BuBbLeBaThJaKe]

How so deathcore? Honest question

[@adamsmith1189]

Johnathan spent the whole first album telling us about his childhood trauma

[@thedisciple516]

and the next 10 albums

[@richieherlinger4545]

Yes, Ring around a rosie refers to the itchy rash around the sores of someone with the plague, pocket full of posies, posies were the flower petals that plague doctors spread over their deceased patients and it also helped with the odor. And of course ashes ashes refers to the ashes of the cremated remains.

[@PhantomMaga]

Thank you for doing this song. It brings me back memories of early high school..and just saw them live at the Prudential center in NJ they sold out a major tour.

[@zackkullis5555]

Loved your reaction, as always!! The bagpipes are now a must for the telling of any nursery rhymes. 😂😂 Back to the darkness of the rhymes. Jonathan had a very rough childhood. The song and video perfectly demonstrate how the darkness of these nursery rhymes (as you correctly pointed out) underscores and sometimes mirrors the dark ugliness that some children are raised in. Thanks for the great watch! Much love and keep ‘‘em coming!

[@ArisP.K]

Loving your reactions! If you are getting into Korn, I suggest listening A.D.I.D.A.S, it's such a heavy song, with a lot heavy and dept concepts

[@JustinCrum-ol4kr]

I agree I love that song..I do most of their songs at karaoke on Monday night's🤘🤘

[@GenXMetalHead73]

Such a killer Korn tune, especially live!

[@richieherlinger4545]

London Bridge is falling down was a phrase used to communicate the death of the Queen to the Prime Minster of the UK and other key personnel.

[@ilegallaws3741]

I remember when I was 18 korn came out of nowhere!! This album was my favorite for 2 years listening to it almost everyday! If you listen to the last track of this album and life its peachy? You're gonna definitely gonna cry!! This albums got be through depression and panic disorder! 🥲do those songs (daddy, kill you) you're going to remember my words !!

[@unicornbotanicalskratom]

You need to watch him perform this song live. It’s sooo much better because you can actually see him sing it and plus you can see him play the amazing bagpipes. I got to see them 3 times in the 90’s. My favorite was the Rock Is Dead tour. Rob Zombie opened for them. It was sooo much fun. 🙂😊

[@Gabriel_Moline]

1:55. “Ring Around The Rosies, Pocket Full of Posies”, for example is from the Great Plague. Killed hundreds of thousands in Sixteen Hundred. Vile affair, with no one at the time knowing it was a virus, cuz no one knows what a virus is then.😆The posies were a reference to how the rich made it smell less bad with flowers. Nursery rhyme indeed!🤣🌿🌸

[@FrancisSchonarth]

This songs related with "daddy" also from Korn. Is all about childhood abuse. 😢

[@denialmen4248]

There is a lot of korn next to react. Falling away from me, blind, got the life, here to stay, make me bad, and more

[@johnzushin198]

Definitely my favorite song by Korn. You should react to “Thoughtless” because it’s another good one!! Amazing reaction as always ❤❤

[@benkline7761]

Nursery rhymes are dark. Ty for the reaction

[@cyberdan42]

Alouette is thought to be a Quebecois song about plucking the feathers from a lark (bird) preparatory to eating it. Nick Nack Paddy Wack is thought to refer to the variety of punishments meted out to the Irish poor during the Great Famine of 1846-53. Ring-a-Ring a Rosies is widely thought to be connected to the 1665 Great Plague of London and concealing the stench of the disease, keeping away "bad humors". One, Two, Buckle My Shoe to my knowledge has no truly dark links, it is an old nursery rhyme and counting song, but some versions of the lyrics are more dark reflecting earlier times when death and danger were more commonplace. London Bridge is Falling Down has an uncertain origin, but the lyrics are dark and the origin links I did find were unpleasant, ranging from Viking raiders to even child sacrifice. So, yes children's songs dressed up in violence. Another interpretation underlying the Korn song is that the nursery rhymes were sung to him by the same people who abused, denigrated, and punished him - sweet-sounding nursery rhymes sung by a person who also causes great pain. This is a very dark song, even for Korn who tended to sing about some pretty dark content. The fact that its meaning is hidden (like the nursery rhymes themselves) is simply genius.

[@mage1439]

I haven't heard this song in forever. I forgot how good it was. It's pretty amazing that he's singing children's songs and you can still feel the mental anguish pouring off him.

[@ghostlee6434]

What people seems to forget that those nursery rhymes are very dark without even singing them if you actually read the words. They were never meant to be told to children or sang to babies. So those tales actually fit the metal narrative more than any other genre.

[@kev.dkev.d8712]

No-one can not nod as soon as it kicks in , No-one 🤘

[@SlyFoxFo]

If you want more of the raw and seething emotions Korn can bring, definitely check out more from their first album. Their song, Faget, is just full of visceral emotion. Definitely worth a listen. Daddy, however, is their most raw and devastating song by far. If you are not faint of heart, it's absolutely also worth listening to. Just be aware that it can be a very unpleasant (and potentially triggering) experience.

[@heffatheanimal2200]

Ooooh yeah, Daddy is one of the more disturbing songs out there. After recording it Jonathan refused to play it again. After 25 years and half a lifetime of therapy he agreed to play it again and they performed it live

[@DS_HitEmUp]

yes, that and the song “pretty”. 2 darkest and gut wrenching songs ive heard

[@heffatheanimal2200]

@@DS_HitEmUp oh yeah, the story behind Pretty made my skin crawl

[@laupstad]

She's seen enough Korn now to start recommending "Daddy". I'd never introduce Korn to anyone by playing that song. That's just trolling tbh. But it's time now. And if you're reading this Rayactions: You can't prepare for the impact this song will have on you, but be prepared for your whole day to change.

[@waynedonovan9491]

If you go back and actually listen to nursery rhymes most are actually dark. If you look up the meanings most come from a dark place. The song is pointing out how we teach kids these rhymes as a way of calming them and it’s kind of the irony involved.

[@AaronShaw051]

Yay!! love me some Korn. great way to get the day started. good morning and have a great day miss!

[@eldyllo]

Love it! Big fan of Korn. Saw them live in August 2021. Easily the best show I’ve been to!

[@petarvurdelja7667]

Johnathan sings about darkness in nursery rhymes the scariest thing is children use to play on this stuff

[@DarrellW_UK]

Korn isn’t my usual thing but this was quite fun, liked what they did to nursery rhymes 😆! Nice reaction and breakdown, oh and if you want some Korn with serious impact Daddy is THE track, very dark!

[@toddmueller8948]

We got peak RayRay stinkface in the first two minutes of the video. That's a win.

[@williamkramer9731]

The key is where the nursery times came from..... glad to see you quickly picked up on that.

[@bobbywikstrom79]

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BAND!! Keep 'em coming. You're doing freaking awesome!!!

[@Starnes8887]

Off topic for this reaction but i was expecting Motionless in White Werewolf video on Halloween lol

[@MusicPlaylists101]

Love korn, great rayactions 😉, I've seen alot of others react to their older/more iconic stuff so I would like to see rayactions do some more of their newer songs also, like you did with "A different world" 👍 I suggest "Worst Is On Its Way" it also has a music video or "Cold" it has a visualizer but its such a good song. Anyways more korn please hehe :D

[@rootsofrapheal5594]

The ring around the rosery song existed before the black death but during it they changed the lyrics from "ashes, ashes" to "atissue! atissue" (mimicing sneezing and coughing). My assumption is that the ashes part meant something to do with playing like children forever until "we all fall down"

[@daeldo1]

Ray, You are a legend. Good stuff, Keep it up. Much Love

[@ian3314]

I loved this song. Listening back, it is kinda silly. Still a good one. Thanks for the video.

[@johnc.hammersticks]

The vocals in the back are the guitar player Brian "head" Welch. He does alot of the background vocals.

[@giova.29]

THAT WAS SICK

[@GinjerFour]

Need to see a reaction to Korn - Worst Is On It's Way

[@dillaarts2]

falling away from me next! music video please and turn on the caption

[@aceitaliano88]

Only Korn can take nursery rhymes and turn them into a heavy metal banger

[@andrewstoops2539]

It's like a riddle for Listener's

[@bobbywikstrom79]

I still think you should listen to "Tearjerker" by Korn. Its definitely different than the others you've heard.

[@keng6663]

Most nursery rhymes have dark meanings behind them.

[@stephenrybka1200]

There’s nothing about nursery rhymes

[@gritoderua1066]

Sepultura - convicted in life

[@sammitchell3657]

Amazing song

[@fgry3970]

Make me bad was my door into Nu Metal. I was like 10 and later on I used to play Pokemon Red and Blue listening to Them. Now Either Pokemon bring me to Korn or Korn gives me Pokemon Flashes.

[@richieherlinger4545]

Baa Baa Black Sheep is about the taxing of wool in the 13th century by King Edward

[@luisochoa9822]

Parece la canción que canta freddy Kruger en las series que daban hace años , es 🤙🏻🤙🏻☠️☠️☠️... come on KORN🤘🤟🤟🤟

[@mikeg5018]

Korn can throw down some music. Can we see a reaction of Jeff Buckley's Grace live in Paris? Cheers!

[@kev.dkev.d8712]

No-one can listen to this without nodding your head to it , its impossible 🤟

[@Gabriel_Moline]

0:02. Nursery rhymes. All of the old ones describe something incredibly horrible that happened in the past. Mostly the Middle Ages, some more recently. Horrific, incredibly dark times in human evolution. Especially England, and across Europe and easterly.😆

[@Gabriel_Moline]

3:20. Fifteenth. Yea, you know!😆🌿🌸

[@ThreeD243]

Yea ring around the rosey is about the Black Plague and how people would keep posies in their pockets. London Bridge is falling down could have multiple meanings from Viking attacks, human sacrifice to the great fire of London in 1666

[@heffatheanimal2200]

I only found out a couple of years ago that Ring Around The Rosie might not be a plague reference. The Wikipedia entry is an interesting read with good references. Another of my historical perceptions dashed 😕

[@GinjerFour]

​@@heffatheanimal2200Yeah but wikipedia can be edited by anyone at anytime. You can't rely on wikipedia for any kind of information because it can be written by anybody.

[@heffatheanimal2200]

@@GinjerFour which is why you always read the references listed to see if they are valid information sources

[@mrlilmossy9295]

The backstory to the song is about that all nursery rhymes have a bad meaning or a dark meaning to them

[@rickyism1576]

Best Korn album.

[@Vintech64]

Korn is art...

[@yackemup]

These are all nursery rhymes that are based off of horrific happenings in history. Like did you know London bridges falling down is about waaaaaay backing the day they supposedly used dead kids and babies buried in the bridges as like a superstition for the bridges to not fall down....but like yeah all these nursery rhymes in this song are based off of a dark history

[@wichard1994]

Now that's what I called a true meaning of NU metal.

[@bobbybourgoin9129]

You should check out the live version of this...

[@trooperkilo3202]

You should check out poets of the fall! Specifically the song carnival of rust! I really recommend!

[@GrimReaper4383]

They also did Kidnap the Sandy Claws

[@gervj236]

*alouette gentille alouette* is one nursery rhymes *dormez vous? dormez vous?* is another nursery rhyme the first one is the one you were talking about *Alouette gentille alouette, Alouette! Je te plumerai*

[@Gixxer22]

You should do the live version of this song

[@HohnerCornell]

The original song is a little longer. I hate when cut them in videoclips. Probably my fav by their first album (yes, more than Blind, for example). Other great songs in this album are Faget or Clown.

[@lasseschmoren9517]

Why do i have this urge to say "Beltalowda, Drummer" ?!?

[@johannallen4974]

I love your korn video reaction , please react to black is the soul , cold , clown.

[@keiithgiberson]

Yes the nursery rhyme is about the plague

[@mohdshahrizanamzah6362]

Maybe You should try listening to their live version or Medley Version From Family Values Tour...... More Intresting....

[@krylesangerbeaver]

Your French is pretty good, at least you got the pronounciation really good.

[@PlayingGilly]

You are absolutely right about the black death, a lot of nursery rhymes are incredibly fucked up.

[@makaab]

J.D.'s childhood involved some really dark things that happened to him. more on the album will fill in that story. I always thought that this song and nursery rhymes were meant to contrast each other. The dark music , the chorus lyrics, both contrasting the nurserry rhymes. Nursery rhymes in the song being a symbol of the lost innocence and false sense of childhood security that they should otherwise symbolize. OR, pershaps, I'm just reading too far into it... *Shrug*

[@SwissMarksman]

Jon has said that Shoots and Ladders is about how fucked up nursery rhymes actually are and the real events behind them

[@lucaswasieleski6454]

This is my favorite song by Korn especially Live .

[@habarlewungaju7182]

please reaction 510 The last suffer Rock band from indonesian 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@jmitr]

This is how misinformation starts. Frere Jacques is about a boy oversleeping for the ringing of the church bells. Has nothing to do with dismembered birds 😂

[@ginoshi3447]

the real dark side is the origins of the nursery ryhmes

[@jeromyturcotte3733]

Listen to the album version bag pipes are played longer and the chorus and ring around the rosey are sung again the video is cut short for some reason idk why probably $ since this was off 1st album the music videos are cool but always edited which ruins them for me personally I'd react to just the studio versions and watch videos on your time or do a double feature of each

[@NecroSeraphim]

The song makes a lot more sense in context with the rest of the album, its part of an overarching theme going on. All I'm going to say is when he starts talking about spoon fed tales and violence, he isn't talking about the dark origin of these fairy tales. That whole first album is more of a therapy session than anything else.

[@tommyfreeman]

It Ain’t Much But It’s Honest Work

[@mikekelly1366]

U look scared and confused at the same time. 😂

[@sumonjamal1653]

There's something rather disturbing hearing an adult singing kids nursery rhymes w/ a hint of rage in his voice... I think that was what Jonathan Davis and KoRn was going for on 'Shoots and ladders'... it got on MTV back in 1995. There was a lot of twisted singles from Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Filter, White Zombie, Alice In Chains, etc. that year... The debut album in 1994 from KoRn was a dark and angry record that sounded like nothing out there at the time... a lot of groove and heaviness... By 1995, the rock scene was stepping away from grunge rock (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots...) and going even darker and more twisted... Jonathan Davis (vocals & bagpipes) of KoRn had suffered a lot of abuse growing up and exorcised a lot of those demons in his lyrics. That album closed w/ the track 'Daddy' that is a difficult track to listen to. Davis wrote it about being sexually abused by his parents' friend, and he was not believed when he told them about it... When Davis tracked his vocals for 'Daddy' in the studio w/ the band, he got through some of the song before he broke down into tears and started screaming hysterically... directed at his abuser... The band lost it too and had to step in to calm him down. And it wasn't faked - that was what made it onto the final mix of the record.

[@Robert-op7oc]

I LOVE IT!!!

[@verkiko5384]

If you want acrobatic vocals,check out the filipino singers. MORISSETTE AMON (akin ka na lang)live wish bus. SB19: ILAW live performance

[@matthewgoodA1206]

When this song was released as a single, I don’t think I picked up on the irony of the lyrics so much. It’s with hindsight that I’m struck by bellowing nursery rhymes over downtuned guitars.

[@matipena3863]

Excellent video, you have to listen to she's gone by Steelheart🙏🙏

[@ericminton6084]

He also sings about the abuse he dealt with as a child as well...

[@장재홍-l2e]

koRn 1집 진짜 최고지

[@DaddyDoggAbbott]

Did you know the lead singer of Korn was a mortician for most of his life

[@ΗρακλήςΤριανταφυλλίδης-λ1β]

Mostly about his own childhood, you can look it up

[@jamesgreer9366]

Do you have any idea how depressing this is knowing the abuse he went through!!!??? And had balls enough to take happy child hood shit, and throw pain into it...... 😭

[@ЯрославФедоров-п5я]

You need to react "Korn - Daddy"

[@justonjenkins1589]

You didn't know they were nursery. Rhymes going into the video. That's kind of funny

[@grunge_is_still_alive]

Listen to No Place To Hide, you'll like it.

[@Warchild0311]

Twist

[@fta206]

Watch the live version 2012 when you get a chance

[@PhillyBIsMe]

If this one blows your mind check out Mr Rodgers by Korn

[@Kane_Zombie]

React to alone I break by Korn that will be interesting

[@SwissMarksman]

Jon has said that Shoots and Ladders is about how fucked up nursery rhymes actually are and the real events behind them

[@alphabarbs]

Personally, I'm just tickled by the expressions of confusion and disgust of our hostess. It is a strange peculiarity that we live in an age that is meant to be welcoming, open, tolerant and accepting, and yet when some music is played with grit, bass and attitude, confusion and disgust are often the go-to responses. Funny, that.

[@rodrigomontoyamacias5126]

I love u

[@josephlambertdangler1172]

Ashes in your mouth, Megadeth is kool.😎😝

[@jamesdude4220]

all are about death hmmmmm🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@theg0ldkiller]

Can you react to Sport Frei from Till Lindemann? 😁