"Chaos Lives in Everything" | ||||
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Single by Korn featuring Skrillex | ||||
from the album The Path of Totality | ||||
Released | March 22, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
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Length | 3:47 (album) 3:22 (radio edit) | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Sonny Moore | |||
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"Chaos Lives in Everything" is a song by American nu metal band Korn and dubstep artist Skrillex, released as the final single from their tenth studio album The Path of Totality .
Two music videos were released for the song, the first released alongside the single on March 23. The band is absent for the entire video. [1] It instead centers around a group of skaters, after one of them collided with a businessman resulting in his coffee being spilled. After an encounter with the rest of the group, a fight scene ensues, concluding with the businessman destroying his phone. [1]
The "official" video [2] was released on April 5, featuring live footage from the band's performances during The Path of Totality Tour . This video was announced and released due to negative feedback from fans on the former video.
The track initiates with a quick hi hat groove, [3] which proceeds to give way to an intense electronic drop. [4] The chorus is considerably more guitar-focused than dubstep traditionally is. [4]
As the title implies, the song lyrically revolves around the prevalence and perceived universality of chaos and interpersonal conflict: "It's just me noticing at the time that chaos does live in everything. There's drama everywhere." [5]
A viral video was created and uploaded to YouTube by Roadrunner Records UK, presented as a jocular news broadcast about an alleged pandemic in which the letter "R" was seen to be reversing for an unknown reason. [6] Entitled "Global Chaos as Letters Reverse", the video was released with the intent to promote the song.
The song was described in a Spin album review as "grind[ing] with convincing menace". [7] As the album's opener, it has been cited as "a nice statement of intent". [4]
An album review from AVClub was comparatively less favorable, labelling it and Narcissistic Cannibal as "a choppy, crisped-beyond-recognition version of Korn's former gloom". [8]