Synopsis

The video opens in an animated world populated by the children from the cover of KoRn's Follow the Leader. A policeman accidentally fires a bullet, which escapes the cartoon landscape and tears through the real world. It travels through streets, objects, and a poster before entering a dark performance space occupied by KoRn. At the song's breakdown, Jonathan Davis sends the bullet back in the opposite direction, returning it to the animated world and its bewildered policeman.

Jonathan Dayton: "We did a whole day of filming where we shot real bullets through objects, and we put our computer-generated bullet on top of the real bullet. So the whole relationship of a bullet moving through space and destroying objects was based on an actual moving bullet, which we filmed at 2,500 fps. All of the bullets were fired on a firing range with the objects bluescreened into the location -- we never shot a bullet across a crowded office building or through a children's birthday party, of course._; Valerie Faris: _In some cases we slowed the bullet down a little. For the glass of milk, you might see one or two frames of the bullet, but you wouldn't catch enough of the collision, even going at 2,500 fps. But all of it was fun. Not the shooting so much, but the explosions and seeing how these bullets would shatter their targets. (With Korn's bullet-holed performance space), it was a bit over the top to film it that way. It's funny -- since then we've had a couple of bands wanting us to shoot their music videos that way. They all want to be in the same kind of room."

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released on February 5, 1999, as the second single from Follow the Leader.

• Its animated opening expands on the unsettling child imagery used for the Follow the Leader album cover.

• The central bullet effect was inspired by high-speed photography of a projectile passing through an object. The production team reportedly fired real bullets through objects at a closed shooting range, then incorporated the footage into the finished sequence.

• The video cost more than $800,000, an unusually large budget for a music video at the time.

• Its bullet-time imagery arrived before The Matrix made the technique famous in 1999. KoRn's members later compared the production's ambitious effects to technology that seemed impossible to pull off.

• The performance scenes were filmed inside a constructed room pierced by small openings, creating the stark shafts of light surrounding the band.

• KoRn's fans pushed the video to No. 1 on MTV's Total Request Live for ten non-consecutive days. It was eventually retired from the program after becoming difficult to dislodge.

• The clip received nine nominations at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards and won for Best Rock Video and Best Editing.

• It later won the Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video at the 2000 ceremony.