Make Me Bad
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| "Make Me Bad" | ||
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| Single by KoЯn | ||
| from the album Issues | ||
| Released | 2000 | |
| Format | 7",12" CD5" | |
| Recorded | 1999 | |
| Genre | Nu Metal | |
| Length | 3:55 | |
| Label | Epic Records | |
| Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien | |
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| KoЯn singles chronology | ||
| "Falling Away From Me" (1999) |
"Make Me Bad" (2000) |
"Somebody Someone" (2000) |
Make Me Bad is a song by Nu Metal/Alternative Metal band KoRn and the second single from their 4th album, Issues.
The song has been very successful and it was used by apparel manufacturing company Puma in their advertisements at the time Korn had signed contract with the company. Also, the video (apparently inspired by the Alien movie series) directed by Martin Weisz, featuring actors Brigitte Nielsen, and Udo Kier gained heavy airplay on MTV Total Request Live.
[edit] Jonathan Davis comments on meaning
""I need to feel the sickness in you" ... It's spawned from fuckin'; basically, from having sex. That's where that line comes from, but it means a whole bunch of things to me. "Make Me Bad" was about the battles I had being on the road, being married and being with other women. I'm not married anymore... because of my lifestyle, and I just couldn't do that to my wife anymore. So that ended. But does it make me bad that I have a dick and I have other fucking feelings to be with other people? Why should I be with just one? It seems like human beings are genetically engineered to procreate. That's what we do, fuck everything, and that's what our natural insides want to do. It is hard to find someone like that. But she was a good woman and I didn't want to keep on... I did the right thing, I was a man about it. It was better for me to tell her and let her go on with her life and find someone who could help her and be like that. So that song was spawned by that, does it make me bad to want to be with other women? In a sense it was my only drug, why... because I don't drink anymore, I can't drink. I've been sober for a year. I don't have any other vices. So at least doing that could be something..."
[edit] Alternate Lyrics
In early live performances and some remixes of the song, the first line of the chorus is "I feel the semen as it's leaving me, no, not again" instead of what's heard on the finished album version ("I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not again"). This is in line with the meaning of the song as described above. The cause of this change is unknown.
