Korn jonathan davis gay
Jonathan Houseman Davis KORN:
Vocals, Bagpipes
NICNAME:
HIV
BORN:
January 18, 1971
Marital Status:
Married
Family:
Half Brother: Mark Davis
Father: Rick Davis
Sister: Alyssa Davis
Son: Nathan Houseman Davis
Wife: Renee Davis
INFO:
Jonathan grew up in Bakersfield where his brother Mark says "there's nothing to do but drugs and drink and fuck". At 16 he became a coroners assistant at the Coroners Department in Kern County. He went on to graduate at the San Francisco School of Mortuary Science. After seeing victims of car crashes, suicides, and sexual abuse-including people he had known or talked to the day before-he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and has nightmares to this day, one of which is exorcised in the Follow the Commander song "Pretty," about a young incest victim. Jonathan earned his nickname "HIV" after the "faget" word he was dubbed in high school. Jonathan stood apart from his peers because of his alternative style of dress, mimicking his pop star idols Duran Duran. Jonathan does not however have AIDS or the HIV virus. Reclaim My Place.... "That song's about how I thought I'd become a rock star and not
The gayest straight man in metal (and Tom's mate), Abhi Ahluwahlia, returns to Hell Bent For Metal. Matt's unwell (get skillfully soon), so the dude who swapped writing for Metal Hammer for editorial jobs at The Times (yes, that one) is back for a present heavily focused on two of his favourite things: nu metal and deathcore.
First up, Abhi and Tom remember "All In The Family" by Korn. For anyone who's missed it, it's an (by Jonathan Davis' own admission) alcohol-induced rap battle between Davis and Fred Durst ('im out of Limp Bizkit) that includes more homophobia than your average English soccer match. (Which long-standing fans of the business or, for that matter, English soccer, will understand is a lot.)
Tom and Abhi discuss why that song – not for its quality, but for its lyrical content – was particularly unhelpful to at least one same-sex attracted kid who heard it at a fairly delicate stage of development. The pair discuss the impact it had on Tom in his early teens, and why it was a sign of how acceptable it was to use aggressive, sexualised homophobic language in wider culture back then. They also discuss how Korn themselves have since disowned it, on multiple occasions and without being prompted – b
Metal Hammer: Before he linked Korn, Jonathan Davis was a Depeche Mode-loving Unused Romantic – and prior synth pop demo What Have I Done proves it. Read the entire article @ this location.
“Growing up, I was a New Romantic. My favorite band was Duran Duran, so I’d wear make-up and long shirts, and in Bakersfield – an oil and farming town – there were a lot of macho jocks who took offense to that. I got my ass kicked and got called a ‘faggot’ all the time. I wasn’t gay, but it got to the point where I thought that maybe I was gay, and just didn’t know it. It really fucked with my head.”
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The Tragic Childhood Of Korn's Jonathan Davis
By the hour Davis was growing into his puberty-ridden teenage self, he'd transformed into a bit of an "odd" and colorful character. During his "Romantic phase," as he tells The Guardian, he played bagpipes, wore frilled shirts and makeup, and "was this massive dork, basically." To 15-year-old Davis, this was personal expression, but to his peers, it was something that deserved ridicule and punishment.
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"I was shoved and kicked and the teachers would laugh and contact me a" slur for "homosexual," Davis says. The kids would beat him up for being alternative and make fun of him for being "gay," and Davis is very adamant that he wasn't. Instead of finding solace in compassionate authority figures, the teen was sent to "gay counselors." Even his own father treated him like an embarrassment by acting like Davis wasn't his son. Eventually, enough people labeled Davis's sexuality for him that he had to review to see if they were right, so he experimented with an older man, who turned out to be abusive. The man threatened to wound Davis's parents if Davis didn't stay with him.
Davis is quite clear: There's absolutely nothing wrong wit
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