"Freak on a Leash" is a song by the American nu metal band Korn, featured on the group's 1998 studio album, Follow the Leader.

Directed by Todd McFarlane in Los Angeles, California, the video explores both animations and live performances mixed together.

As a result, the band released a music video that won six awards and was retired from Total Request Live.

"[8] Guitarist Brian "Head" Welch said that the song "was about Jonathan Davis being a freak on a leash—sort of a kinky dominatrix thing.

"[24] David Lloyd from the University of Alberta said that the song was an example of a "nonsense-utterance" technique used by lead vocalist Jonathan Davis.

Lloyd also noted that the song contained "fragments of English-language words," and said that they "can be perceived in the midst of Davis' gibberish".

Lloyd went on to say that "Davis is giving voice to his inner basic feelings which are trying to resist being shaped or conditioned by utterances of others.

The bullet then enters a Korn poster exactly at the break in the middle of the song and flies around the band members before Jonathan Davis shouts "Let’s go!

Once back in the animated world, the girl in red (also from the album cover) catches the bullet and gives it to the policeman.

The policeman stares at his hands bewildered as the camera then focuses on the loose "No Trespassing" sign; which then leads up to the follow-up video for "Falling Away from Me" featured on the band's then next album Issues.

The directory work was described as combining "special effects and clever camera moves in the live action portion of the video.

[35] iTunes said that "Wright and Thompson bring a brighter, sharper sheen to Korn's sound, which helped make huge hits out of 'Freak on a Leash'.

[37] David Fricke described: "caged-animal babble (the Busta Rhymes-in-Bellevue outburst in "Freak on a Leash")..."[38] Yahoo Music!

[81] In early February 1999, "Freak on a Leash" was used in a Puma television advertisement that debuted during the Super Bowl pre-game show, featuring Korn's live performance interspersed with Serena Williams and Vince Carter competing in their respective sports.

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