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Freak on a Leash
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"Freak on a Leash" is a commercially successful song by the band Korn. It was included on their 1998 album Follow the Leader as the second single and also featured on their Greatest Hits compilation in 2004. The song was reworked into an acoustic performance in 2006 when Korn appeared on MTV Unplugged. It received heavy airplay (despite failing to crack the Billboard Hot 100) on rock radio, MTV (who they had recently found major support with) and MuchMusic. Lead singer Jonathan Davis has confirmed that the lyrics address forms of exploitation by the music industry (a common trait for the band also evident in their 2003 hit Y'All Want a Single). The track features a number of scats towards the end of its playing time, and beatboxing before the breakdown. The song is usually played during the encore set of the band's live show. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine turned this song into a swingin' Big band version on their 2006 album "The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese".
The protesting video was created mostly in animation by Todd McFarlane (Follow the Leader's artwork is taken from these scenes), mixed with live shots of the band performing, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The video is about a group of children tresspassing to a cliff to play, a security guard notices this and accidentally tripps and fires his gun. Upon inspection, the bullet exits through the wall (it turns out the animated part of the video is in a poster) out of a poster and goes flying around unstoppably, ignoring friction and other forces to stop it, destroying everything it shoots through (yet does not hit or kill anyone, though at times it misses people by mere inches), entering a Korn poster, flies around the band and so on until it reenters the original poster. It ends with a little girl catching and returning the bullet to the guard. 
A still photo from the Freak On A Leash music video
The video for Falling Away from Me, from the band's follow-up album Issues picks up where it leaves off. The video had won a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and two MTV Video Music Awards (nominated in 9 categories). Over the years, the song has won numerous awards, both when it was released and recently. In 2000, it won the band their first Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video and also won two MTV Video Music Awards. In 2004 it was chosen second best single of all time by the readers of Kerrang! magazine. Two years later, the video for the song was voted by UK users into the number ten spot for the best 100 videos of all time on web site of Kerrang!, and it appeared on VH1's List of Top 40 Metal Songs Of All Time at number 23.[1] It was also a huge hit in Australia where the single was certified gold with 35,000 units sold.[2] The song was also ranked 15th most popular song of year 1999 in Australian Triple J Hottest 100 chart.
On the December 9, 2006, an acoustic rendition of the song was recorded with Jonathan Davis singing a duet with Amy Lee of Evanescence, at MTV studios in Times Square, New York City for Korn's unplugged acoustic set.[3] The single initially was set to appear on radiostations on January 12, 2007, but its release was postponed to February 5. The video for the single was premiered on January 25, 2007 on three music channels: MTV, MTV2, and MTVU (The latter also put the video on its website for streaming). It received heavy airplay on each of the stations.
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