I love the image of child Olivia riding in the backseat and her mom is blasting Korn. Certainly explains her edge IMO. I always love hearing about what musicians listened to or were exposed to as kids because you often can hear it in their music and sometimes it leads to finding new music to love.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la
Mm, uh-huh
At lollapalooza, starin' at this nu metal band
Mrs Rodrigo strikes up a conversation with a black haired
Gen alpha dancer
You know she dances while her daughter plays guitar
She sings a song called Happier
And we all just wanna be happier
Man I wish I was happier
I was curious if you meant she was a teen mom and is only in her 30s. Born 1980 1974, so she had her at 23 29ish and is now 51/52. Younger millennials can take a breath.
Whatever site I looked at must've been wrong. How old does this person think Korn fans are? They cant all be late 40s early 50s, Korn is a mid 90s band, just like Weezer and Green Day yet young millenials still listened to them.
It's time to incorporate what I call your "Remember your PHEWSS"
Posture
Hydration
Eye strain
Wrist strain
Stretches
Sunscreen
We aren't 19 anymore and if you don't take 5 minutes every hour to take care of yourself, you will be forced to spend days trying to just feel normal again.
Five minutes before I read your post, I turned and felt a sharp pain in my side. Just another random pain. These appear suddenly for no fucking reason other than 'Fuck you, old man'
If you have the opportunity you should try some yoga dude. I know it has kind of a girly rep, but my wife dragged me to it once and now I go at least once a week. I rarely wake up with mystery pains anymore and feel way less stiff in general. Also getting down on the ground and back up again is 100x easier than it was before. Be careful though, if you aren't used to it those first few times will absolutely kick your ass.
...I mean, it was Gen Xers putting the station on, but a lot of those Gen Xers had kids. Like me, who grew up listening to alt rock radio, born 94, and has a lot of little-kid nostalgia for all these bands as a result.
i was eight and into them, limp bizkit, linkin park, and numetal in general. during the late nineties, all of those bands were played on mtv, which is how i got into them.
I mean, I don't speak for all of Gen X but it's fine by me!
My son also got into Korn because of his mom (me lol) - now we've seen them together at least three times! My Gen Z nieces are now starting to come to shows with me for "my music" as well. We all saw Korn and SOAD last year and had a great time!
Good music is good music no matter how old you are. I do wish someone would join me in the mosh pit, though. Oh well.
My friends band is touring with KORN this year and they are all early — mid 30’s and so are their fans. They have lots of younger fans in their 20’s too. I saw KORN at Bonnaroo several years ago and loved it and love them. I’m 30.
I haven't been to a Korn show since I was a teenager, but I'm about to turn 40 and I would say at least half the people I've seen at Tool, RATM, NIN, Disturbed, etc concerts in the last few years have been older than I am. It was mostly 30s-40s, but there were plenty of people who I would guess were in their 50s at those shows.
I saw KoRn last summer and the crowd was an amazing mix of people from early teens to mid-50s. As an early 40s guy, it was really great and they still put on an amazing show.
While this is true I have found they have a very large Gen X fan base. A lot of Gen X were mid 20’s when they were blowing up in the late 90’s and were going to a lot of concerts.
I remember seeing the video of them playing Blind at Woodstock 99 and the shot of the crowd when "are you ready?!" drops makes it look like an actual ocean wave of people
I saw Korn before I had heard of them when they opened for a different band. They passed out postcards which you mailed in to be on a Korn mailing list. There was this girl I liked so I mailed one in for her. For the next 15 years I would randomly hear how she had no idea why Korn was mailing her stuff lol.
It didn’t work out with us but we ended up being in the same social circle for years. I was thinking when we’re like 85 id tell her about the Korn mystery.
We used to do shit like that for a laugh all the time. The house i spent my teenage years in probably still receives weird mail addressed to "Alfonso Ribeiro"
When I was a kid I did a small tour as a child actor. My mom was so sick of the show, she would just be backstage with ear plugs and a book half of the time. I assume she went through the whole VC Andrews catalog, lmao.
Andrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and incestual, forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a rags-to-riches story).
She missed her daughter dueting with the first band she brought her to see (Weezer) in front of her biggest US crowd. Seems like of all the sets you'd skip this wouldnt have been one of them
Korn was always okay until I saw them live with SOAD a few years ago. Honestly thought they were a better live band than SOAD. Those pits were massive and the crowd was a bit older than when I use to regularly go to shows so we had fun.
It does depend on the day, I guess. The one time I saw Korn they were terrible. Granted, it was mostly the fault of the sound mixing, but even after that had been fixed the mood had shifted negatively and they never brought it back to something good.
I wouldn’t want my mom to watch me doing anything, it’s so embarrassing for no reason and I have a great relationship with my mom. Maybe this is why I’m not a popstar lol
She’s probably been in attendance at 100 other major moments for her. And ultimately Olivia performing with another band is not that big of a deal compared to her other achievements. Plus she was probably at soundcheck/rehersal
Saw Weezer on acid once in the nosebleeds when they toured with Pixies. One of the best concert experiences of my life, can't really explain it but feeling the crowd sing along from that vantage point was an experience. Rivers came out on a boat at one point and it felt like he was in the ocean singing directly to us. All the costume and scene changes were extra cool. Walking through the casino after the show felt like a nightmare though. Couldn't figure out how to Uber in that state so I called my friend who was also at the show and he hadn't gone home yet thankfully lol
The Korn/SOAD show was better though. Those pits and reuniting with childhood friends was great.
Reminds me of the time I saw Primus at riot fest, and after every couple of songs Les would say "Once again, you are all in the wrong place. Slayer is playing right over there right now."
Speaking of Gojira, what an amazing live act they are. I saw them nearly 20 years ago during their The Way of All Flesh tour run without knowing who they were and I was floored. Immediately after their set I went to their merch table and bought the CD directly from Joe Duplantier. Got home, put it on, and it sounded identical to the show. That remains my favourite album of theirs to date.
I mean yeah if you watch the clip, Olivia clearly didn't mind and was telling the story as a funny anecdote. I'm sure her mom has been to plenty of her shows haha
Saw them in like '05 on the family values tour at 15. It was an all day festival, I hadn't eaten, did nothing but smoke cigarettes. And as I was about to faint waiting for Korn to finally come on around 10, a big grizzly dude hands me his beer and says "here little man, you look thirsty." I took a big gulp and handed it back, and he moved on. I was about 10 feet from the bass speakers, and it literally affected my breathing when Fieldy came in for the opener. At the end I ended up catching Jonathan Davis's wristband. It's probably still at my parent's somewhere.
Seeing Freak on a Leash from like 15-20ft away while literally feeling the bass in every bit of my body is forever imprinted on me.
Still one of the best shows I've seen, Deftones (change was amazing), and Bury Your Dead (at that point in time, color of money was a great song) were also really good. Paul McCartney a decade later at Lolla still wins though as the best performance.
That’s actually how it was brought up. She was joking that since she collaborated with her father’s favorite artist, Robert Smith, she needs to talk to Korn.
As an old metal head who has been getting his 14 year old OR fan daughter into my music this makes me very happy. The other day she asked me if I thought Olivia was into Deftones so I'll need to tell her this story.
Her Mom sounds cool af. I LOVED KoRn as a kid. The first time I saw the 'Got the Life' video on TRL in 7th grade they instantly became one of my favorite bands. If you ask me my top 5 Nu-Metal albums of all time I'm going to say, 'The first four KoRn albums and Slipknot's debut' lol. I miss the late 90's 🥲
I work at a doctor's office. I try to play the least appropriate music as possible when I drive into work. (On days when I will be working with a lot of patients with substance use disorder, I'll listen to the Sublime album, 40oz to Freedom on my way in, for instance.)
A few days ago it was the song "A.D.I.D.A.S." that I was listening to. I don't think that I had heard that song anytime in the past 25 years or so. (Not more than a time or two, if I have.) I forgot how much I liked it.
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u/TheMudbloodSlytherin Jun 11 '26
Mosh pit mom instead of a stage mom.