Hey Daddy
by Korn

Album: Issues (1999)
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Songfacts®:

  • KoRn lead singer Jonathan Davis said of this song: "I was schizophrenic and there were these voices telling me to do s--t... To kill myself, basically. Daddy is one of my nicknames, so its like I'm talking to myself the whole time."
  • Released on the band's fourth album, Issues, in 1999, KoRn didn't perform "Hey Daddy" live until 25 years later, when they played it during their September 12, 2024, show at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida.

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  • Zero from Nowhere, NjDuring the verses: I'm pretty sure that's Munky using his envelope filter effect on his guitar to get that "drowning man" sound, while Head is subtly using the pitch shifting effect in his digitech whammy pedal, with Fieldy using traditional note-plucking as opposed to his normal slap-bass playing.
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