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The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 14: Korn, "Ya'll Want A Single?"

By Christopher Weingarten, Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 2:15PM
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Categories: F2K, Featured, ha, this song is fucking terrible

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here.

Our record label is so stupid! Can you believe they actually called us on the phone and told us our album needed a single? The nerve of the people who write us enormous checks that we don't even remotely deserve! How dare they expect a pop band signed to a 10-album deal to be "marketable" and turn a "profit." Those fucking leeches! Besides, don't those stuffed-shirt fat-cat assholes at Epic know that the lights are kept on by the low tones of Fieldy's bass, and not because they pay "money" to the "electric company"? Even the phrase "electric company" sounds made up. What are those clowns doing?

So yeah, firstly they don't know we're real artists. Remember that "These nuts on your lips/Kentucky fried kung-pao clits" song on Life Is Peachy? You think lyrics like that just pop in your head? No way, man. Laser-guided inspiration from the gods. That's why we spent four million dollars to record Untouchables. Because albums take time, take effort and require five separate houses for us to "zone" out in.

Because our label is such dense, we've decided to be pissy about it in a way that makes us look rebellious to our fans but not acidic enough to potentially sour any business relationships.

We had our lead singer explain it to MTV News:

"It's all about how it seems like kids are fed what is cool. They don't really have a brain to search and see what's going on with music. I'm just saying if kids are really into music then they go and do that, but if they are just everyday Joe, then music is fed to them."

See! Labels are evil, our fans are dipshits, and "Ya'll Want A Single" is our Dogme95. Check out its lyrics! It's a stripped down, highly polemic, incendiary rant!

"Ya'll want a single say fuck that, fuck that, fuck that."
[Repeat 50 times]

We're like the Clash and shit. In the video we smash up a record store! And flash messages on the screen like Rage Against The Machine--you know, that band whose sound we aped and dumbed down so we could have marketable singles? Oops.

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Comments (13)

saturn says:

Mr. Weingarten, I am in love with you. Or at least with your anger.

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 2:39PM
jim says:

This is an eye opener for people like you who think that the record labels "are just doing there job" by wanting a single. Also check out the music video, this song has done worthy of what it was made for.

p.s your articles are a joke, look for a new career

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 8:18PM
tomasz. says:

"This is an eye opener for people like you who think that the record labels "are just doing there job" by wanting a single."

ummm, that sort of is their job, yes. duh.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 12 2009 @ 2:14PM
Chris says:

Ok this was somewhat funny I'll admit but how the fuck did Korn steal RATM's style and "dumb it down"? Explain that one. Maybe Limp Bizkit but Korn don't sound that much like RATM and I'm a fan of both bands.
Y'all Want a Single is a horrible song, though.

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 27 2009 @ 2:32PM
johnny carnage says:

hearing "y'all want a single?" makes me miss "faget", "clown", and "need to."

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 27 2009 @ 3:28PM
Scott VS says:

good song, good video, good message, and I can think of about 1,349 worse songs from the last 10 years.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 29 2009 @ 4:36PM
rob says:

This for me was the sad constipated end to something vaguely interesting that started in the late 90's. RIP Nu-Metal.

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 31 2009 @ 1:53PM
Tommy says:

Another ignorant, pseudo-intellectual rambling on about a band he knows literally absolutely nothing about whose music he hasn't listened to. Relying on the same old, tired cliche' bullshit exaggerations, generalizations, and outright lies doesn't do too well for credibility in this person's case.

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 31 2009 @ 2:50PM
Tommy says:

Oh and for the record, Korn sounds nothing like Rage Against The Machine. Their primary influences were Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, early Red Hot Chili Peppers (I'm talking their 80s material), and a few old school metal and punk bands. I truly get tired of people making unfounded comments which just scream "I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BUT I AM GOING TO RUN MY MOUTH ANYWAY BECAUSE I'M A MORON!"

Posted On: Thursday, Dec. 31 2009 @ 2:53PM
theAbomb says:

Its annoying when people make stupid lists like this, whilst I would probably agree with some of the songs this list (probably most) Everyones list will be different. Im a koRn fan so obviously my view will be biased, but atleast this song is about something, there are so many other songs that could have taken this spot. People who come up with these list need to get a life & realize no one gives a shit!

Posted On: Friday, Jan. 1 2010 @ 1:26AM
Christopher Weingarten's Mom. says:

Hey Chris;
Go fuck yourself.
You clearly do not know what you're talking about.
Take your hand off your dick, and punch yourself in the face.

Kthxbai.

Posted On: Friday, Jan. 1 2010 @ 11:20AM
Kaiowas says:

This person does not even know what the song is about and how it was created.

It's not because the record label asked them to release a single for the album, it's because the label told them to do a hit-single like 'Freak on a Leash', so the song is about record labels controlling bands so they make songs for main-stream.

But whatever, I bet Christopher Weingarten thinks the best song of the decade was Toxic by Britney Spears or something like that...

by the way, Untouchables is the best album of the decade, u can totally listen to 4 million dollars of hard work and excellent music.

Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 7 2010 @ 4:13PM
Keithus says:

lol Korn fans

Posted On: Tuesday, Jan. 12 2010 @ 6:33PM

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