Korn: Twisted Transistor Meaning
Song Released: 2005
Twisted Transistor Lyrics
Listening to your Twisted Transistor
Hold it between your legs
Turn it up, turn it up
The wind is coming through
Can't get enough
A lonely life, where no one understands you
But don't give up,...
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#1 top rated interpretation:Transistor is what they used to call a radio back in the 60s. The song is entirely about music. It's not about dildo's, although an allusion is made between them. And there is a dialogue between the girl and the narrator; there isn't just one person speaking here. The narrator is commenting on how dark, twisted music is alleviating the pain and loneliness that this girl and everyone in the world feels. When no one understands you, you have your music, your "radio/transistor" to turn to ...the image of this girl with a radio between her legs gives us her sense of desperation, intimately letting the music "in." She's at her breaking point, finally understanding what everyone gets eventually - the world sucks. So she turns to music for comfort. It moves her emotionally, "reaching and inside you forever preaching." She shares in the anger of the music...the world has fucked her over, and she can say "Fuck you too." She can scream now in her silent, private, and personal rage, comforted by the fact that the music understands her pain. But despite all of this loneliness, the narrator and the music makes her realize you have to fight back or, "the world will eat you if you let it." But for right now, turn to music to ease your suffering and it won't hurt anymore. She cries out to be anesthetized, degrading herself at the same time.
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#2 top rated interpretation:If any of you disagree with me I'll kick your ass, cause I heard this straight from the mouth of the man himself - Jonathan Davis.
It's about how people are fucking like, rejected by society and they feel alone and they find comfort in the knowledge and the music. It's like the music is saving their life, and it's the only thing understands them.
Twisted Transistor is kind of like how Korn's music is. It's life-saving for some, hundreds can relate to it and JD gets all these letters and emails and shit saying "god it if wasn't your music, I'd have killed myself".
In my opinion, to sum it up, it's about the life-changing effect and power that music has. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:Okay folks, for the last time, this fucking song is NOT about vibrators!! Vibrators have nothing to do with music... This song is about music and the people that get too involved with it and it's fucking up their lives. 'Twisted Transistor' and parts in the song such as 'hold it between your legs, turn it up, turn it up,' are metaphors to the music. The 'twisted transistor' is music; that's what these people use to relieve their tensions (i.e. people use vibrators to relieve sexual tension). So if you take this song literally, don't. It's all one big metaphor.
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This didn't age well. Especially with regards to newer dildos with their advanced functionalities. Another factor to keep in mind is Korn's purpose in keeping the songs auditory and not providing lyrics. This purpose being that everyone has their own interpretation no matter how similar they may seem. The only real way I see someone having the same viewpoint as another is if they were some type of twin. :/
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Koran said in an interview the beauty of music is that it lets the listener interpret the lyrics however way they wish. And that’s why they don’t put the lyrics in their albums because the words do not matter as much as the meaning you get from it. So they don’t want their songs to be literal and have just one meaning. Music is art and art is seen differently depending on the perspective of the viewer. It’s whatever the mind allows you to imagine making the meaning of the song infinite and limitless.
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It's not about no Boobies it's about transistors , the girl(devil little sister) turn his radio frequency boton and search for his music .
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Please, can some one tell me what they are chanting in the intro? I can’t find this answer any where.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Haha, it about how music affects your mind and thinking.
Hold it between your legs - let it fuck you.
A lonely life where no one understands you, but music do(es).
Reaches inside you, preaches - infects you with belief, but those you want to hear.
Just let me be. between you and me, don't fit - the moral, be yourself. Don't be corrupted by entertainment. -
i think its about how music takes over your body. dnt read into it too much. its not about shoving a phone up your ass or rape. if you don't like my translation... like KoRn would say it. "FUUckk you Toooo"
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i think its about how much takes over your body. font read into it too much. its not about shoving a phone up your ass or rape. if you don't like my translation... like KoRn would say it. "FUUckk you Toooo"
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Well, I myself take it as (partially because of something from YouTube), this girl, she doesn't have many friends and all that, then she finds this other person who befriends her. But this new 'friend' is a little bitch and is convincing her to do all this stupid stuff, but in the end, she realizes how messed up the world is and finds her escape from it through music. Dunno, just what I think.
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In short, I enjoy this song as a layered sort of perfection in the various ways it's possible to interpret parts or as a whole.
But for starters it's clear to me that 'twisted transistor' is primarily the person/listener, not a radio
Yes, in the FIRST stanza, 'twisted transistor' refers to a radio. But this is simply to to draw a picture... that literal radio is just a jumping-off point for the fantabulous layers of the song, which to me sing about:
there is a higher TRUTH in all things, perfectly entwined in even the most 'base' or primal aspects of this world, like MUSIC.
"HOLD IT BETWEEN YOUR LEGS, TURN IT UP, TURN IT UP"
This line is referring to how we choose to utilize ourselves, our capabilities as living Transistors, in either lowly/base ways (like gratuitous empty sex), or higher/liberating ways (realizing the dynamics of how the world works)... we, the listener are the transistor, every moment capable of choosing the less or more liberating perspective.
but whatever we choose, there is a 'higher' message that is so powerful it comes directly through the music (MUSIC DO MUSIC DO), so even if you "HOLD IT BETWEEN YOUR LEGS" and "TURN IT UP, TURN IT UP", the higher message about liberation from the stifling aspects of this world are "REACHING INSIDE YOU FOREVER PREACHING"
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for one brief example: "HANG ON YOU, TWISTED TRANSISTOR" is part of a dialog, as is "FUCK YOU TOO" a response from the person/the twisted transistor.
the 'Twisted Transistor' is the PERSON being sung to (the listener), who in some parts responds:
"HEY YOU HEY YOU, THIS WON'T HURT A BIT",or "HANG ON YOU, TWISTED TRANSISTOR" is the MUSIC speaking to the person/listener.
"SAYS WHO? SAYS WHO? ANESTHETIZE THIS BITCH" is the person, the twisted transistor also responding (with their shadow aspect that doubts and gets distracted by lower perceptions)
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In summary,
"JUST LET ME BE BETWEEN YOU AND ME DON'T FIT"
is a reference/clue to the layered perfection the lyrics themselves.
~Sometimes it's the darkest/lowest bits in life by which we come to know the more liberating perspectives, or higher Truths. But if we put those lower doubts/obsessions/fears between us and our TRANSISTOR, well, it stays twisted until "FINALLY YOU GET IT". -
It's about music, sex-obsessed stupids.
How it comforts and can help you feel NOT alone about your feelings when the world's being a bloody btch.
There. :/ -
If you think this song is about sex, you are one messed up person, because this song is about a radio, and the turning to it when the world seems screwed up around you and you can't do anything about it. The FACT that "the music do" is about how it (the music, not sex, tard) understands and takes the person in, as a way to cope for the messed-up-ness of the world
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twisted is another way to say turn or flip right? well transistor means radio or music. filp the song to find its true meaning. go to youtube... its there.
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This song ain't about booty is about transistor, ya dig?
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