Y'All Want a Single
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| "Y'all want a single" | ||
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| Single by KoRn | ||
| from the album Take a Look in the Mirror | ||
| Released | March 2004 (UK) Promo only |
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| Format | CD"5 | |
| Genre | Nu Metal, Alternative Metal | |
| Length | 3:17 | |
| Label | Immortal/Epic | |
| Producer(s) | Jonathan Davis, Korn | |
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| KoRn singles chronology | ||
| "Right Now" (2003) |
"Y'All Want a Single" (2004) |
"Everything I've Known" (2004) |
Y'All Want a Single is a song by Nu Metal/Alternative Metal band KoRn, and the third single from their self-produced album, Take a Look in the Mirror.
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[edit] Inspiration
The track is a humorous, dedication to their record company, Sony, for asking the band to "write a radio hit" for their upcoming self-produced album. The song was chosen for a single through voting by fans on band's official forum.
[edit] James Shaffer comments on inspiration
"We were recording this album before we went to Ozzfest. We had 10 songs written and recorded, but we weren't feeling it would be the whole album. We wanted to add 3 or 4 more songs, so we came back to record them. Then our record company was like 'Hey, we'd really love to have a single' and our management, The Firm said 'We would really like to have a smash hit single, man, can you dig it?'. We were really appalled by that scene. They wanted 'Got The Life' or Freak on a Leash, and that shit wasn't flying with us at all! For the first time in our lives we were dissecting our music, and try to analize the structure of those songs, trying to figure out what made them huge hits. But Korn never works like that, and while we're all were wondering, Jonathan came up with a line: 'Y'all want a single? Say: fuck that!' and we wrote Y'All Want a Single as a big 'fuck you' to them. Damn, Jonathan is really good at motivating us this way."[1]
"It's really funny when you think of it, asking a heavy band like Korn to write a 'radio single'. What were they thinking?!?"
[edit] Video
The video, directed by Andrews Jenkins presents a mob destroying a record store with facts about the music industry. The video starts out with all of the members of Korn entering the record store and destroying all of the music cds and tapes and dismantling the racks and shelves that they are stored on. As the video moves along facts criticizing the music industry and major label companies flash across the screen.The video itself only cost $150,000 to make.
[edit] The Fact Captions in the music video
Music Monopoly? One Corporation Owns The 5 Major Video Channels In The U.S. Is That OK? Last Year The BIG 5 Record Labels Together Sold About $25 Billion Dollars Of Music. 90% Of Releases On Major Labels DO NOT Make A Profit. Britney Spears's Last Video Cost $1,000,000. This Korn Video Costs $150,000. You Have Seen $48,000 Worth Of Video. Will Any Music Channel Play This Video? The Music "Industry" Releases 100 Songs Per Week. Only 4 Songs Are Added To The Average Radio "Playlist" Each Week. Hit Songs On TOP 40 Are Often REPEATED Over 100 Times A Week. Is That All You Want To Hear? Why Is A Song Worth $.99 Do You Download Songs? Steal This Video. This Is A Single. Two Radio Conglomerates Control 42% Of Listeners. The Record Company Wanted Us To Change This Video. We Didn't. Y'all Want A Single. 90% Of All Songs Get To "The Hook" Within 20 Seconds. 98% Of All #1 Singles Are Less Than 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds Long. Does This Seem Like A Formula To You? With All This Said... We Love Making Music. Is This The Music "Business"? Is That OK? Thank You For Your 3 Minutes Of Time Korn Music Monopoly? Love, Korn
The music video itself has somekind of a self-irony, when you note that while the captions make the anti-statements "90% Of All Songs Get To "The Hook" Within 20 Seconds." and "98% Of All Singles Are Less Than 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds Long.", the song is 3:17 long and gets to "the hook" 17 seconds into it.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Metal Hammer UK, November issue (2003)
