Korn's Twisted Transistor
Korn's new video Twisted Transistor was released earlier this month to mixed reviews. The basic concept of the video is a fun and ironic one - replace a the members of a rock band with hip-hop stars as they get more MTV airplay - but so much of the clip is taken up with in-jokes and poor efforts at a Christopher Guest style 'mockumentary' that the idea gets diluted and drawn out and ultimately, you wonder what the point of it all is.
To my mind, playing out the track with those four guys without making a big deal over it, completely throwing the viewer and leaving them with a "Wait a minute, isn't that Snoop Dogg & Xzibit?" would have been far more clever. All that aside, if you've followed the band for any reasonable length of time the general idea is still quite a giggle, not to mention that Snoop is an inspired choice to play Munky.
In preparation for their new album the band have updated their website too, with a suitably over-the-top festival of Flash that laughs in the face of Merlin Mann's idea that label and artist sites already have Too Much Flash (Merlin's in the right here, though.) Your average 14-year-old Korn fan will literally spooge over it; those who are a bit older will sit through the load screens and awkward menu's and wonder if it's the late 90's again.
(Of course, the truly old farties like myself will go, "Wait, wasn't there a game called The 7th Guest that looked almost exactly the same as this about 10 years ago?")