Jonathan Davis thinks ‘A.D.I.D.A.S.’ was a “dumb song”.
The 52-year-old rock star is the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn and recalled that their 1997 hit – which is an indirect reference to the sports brand Adidas – means “nothing” to him these days because of its “immature” meaning but admitted that it meant “everything” to him in his youth.
He told Adidas: “It was just a dumb song. It’s just like, it was nothing. I think I started with the riff, we were doing it… it was the second record and we wrote the song and I remember the acronym for it was ‘All Day I Dream About Sex. It could be a million different things.
“They would say ‘sports’, there’s all different ones. It’s very immature and juvenile. It representative of where we were at at that point in time. You’re 24 years old. That’s all you really think about, especially being in a rock band. That’s just the whole dream and everything. But it’s like, at that time that song was everything to me.”
The ‘Freak on a Leash’ hitmaker – who has Nathan, 28, with ex-wife Renee Perez as well as Pirate, 18, and 16-year-old Zeppelin with late wife Deven Davis – also revealed that his eldest was actually present when he wrote the risque track and believes the little one can even be heard in the background of the recording.
He said: “What’s f***** up about it, when I performed it, if you listen, my firstborn son Nathan was between my legs when I sang that song. Actually in the breakdown you can hear him coo-ing in the background. He was in the room.”