Twist Lyrics

"Twist" / (Good God) by Korn is one of those songs that express myriad complicated emotions through an absolutely peculiar approach. This song comes from their album "Life is Peachy," released in 1996. Here, through the use of vicious scatting, aggression, and the low-key structure of the instruments, the songwriter really tries to dig into such themes as inner turmoil, aggression, and overall darkness located in the human psyche. Korn's main singer, Jonathan Davis, uses his voice not just to carry melody or sets of lyrics but as an enhancer of almost percussive power, taking the Nü metal group's always volatile exploration of pain and frustration one step further. The song itself was written based on personal experiences with bipolar disorder and depression, an attempt really to gather the highs and the lows that such conditions produce. According to Davis, "Twist" is about the challenge one is fraught with in attempting to express themselves with emotional instability, and therein lies a broader theme about the struggle to communicate the incommunicable—a relationship to human emotion—making the song another powerful piece of Korn's discography. Despite — or perhaps because of — its brevity and apparent simplicity, "Twist" has proven to be an incredibly, effective poignant work. The abstract and even primal approach to the forging of sounds with one's voice stands as a device drawing no further line than sounds meant to pull at a raw response. This tactic allows listeners to fill the song with their feelings and their interpretations, rendering each listen personal and unique. Interestingly, the meanings that come to mind show that the song is a reflection of how shallow language really is; that true emotions go beyond simply saying the words. It echoes the belief that it is only in pure sound that you can relay deep-seated emotional experiences, not through structured language; that complexity of the language can equate to deep thought. As much as some fans interpret "Twist" as some sort of musical expression of anger, or maybe even some kind of definition on drug-induced states, it remains as a testimony to the very ways in which music can articulate inarticulate, complicated emotions in forms that people do not associate with their representations. Whether it is taken as a statement about the futility of language, a vision of internal disorder, or just an experiment in nu-metal weirdness, "Twist" is a song that remains as memorable and forceful as any other in Korn's oeuvre.