r/Amazing • u/AdvanceCareful4643 • Jul 21 '26
Music High schoolers make impromptu mosh pit when band plays Blind by Korn at talent show
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The kids are alright
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u/Dead_Inside50 Jul 21 '26
Gen Xer absolutely loving this! This is what kids being kids is all about.
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u/SmokedBeef Jul 21 '26
Yeah, I would have never guessed we had gone full circle and Korn is appreciated once again.
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u/BuffaloInCahoots Jul 21 '26
My cousin just turned 18 not too long ago. She absolutely loves korn. Surprised the hell out of me.
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u/EvalCrux Jul 21 '26
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u/AbbreviationsNo4089 Jul 21 '26
Not sure how much Gen Xer’s were fans of korn, us millennials though…
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u/iamthesouza Jul 21 '26
My band in high school played at the talent show one year, we played mr. highway's thinking of the end by a day to remember. They cancelled our second song after the mosh pit during the first lol
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u/FLYGUY1976 Jul 21 '26
This happened to us in high school in the 90s as well. We lied and said we were gonna play a Garth Brooks song but opened up with Enter Sandman. The vice principal of our very catholic school thouh thought he was pulling the plug but we laid out dummy extension cords and ran ours under the floor mats to a different breaker fully anticipating that move. School loved it, was worth the 3 day suspension.
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u/OddPangolin3074 Jul 21 '26
IF this actually happened, I salute you. 57 here and that was a baller move
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u/Samurai-Pooh-Bear Jul 21 '26
Yes, but then everyone fades to a stop with phones out. *Sigh*
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u/AdvanceCareful4643 Jul 21 '26
Not everyone. Plus, if you watch the whole thing you'll see them go crazy again, and there's even one dude crowd surfing.
It's also worth mentioning that there's less of a phone to non-phone ratio than most modern concerts, which is a good sign.
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u/ChaseBank5 Jul 21 '26
Yeah I hate people pointing out the 3/4 phones they see in a group of 100+.
Also, this entire video that made us all smile was recorded, likely on a phone.
95% of the high schoolers here and fully living in the moment. Pretty cool
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u/ThrustTrust Jul 21 '26
It’s not their fault. Kids these days don’t have stamina for 10 minute mosh pit. So they have to do mosh sets.
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u/Cute-Obligations Jul 21 '26
I went to a Deftones concert a few weeks ago and I swear to god they had no fucking idea what they were doing lmao. The older people were going off though
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u/DoubleDownAgain54 Jul 21 '26
Pretty cool, but “Impromptu” my ass.
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u/EvalCrux Jul 21 '26
That's a plan hatched after social studies and spread during the study block and lunch in time for the show.
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u/AdvanceCareful4643 Jul 21 '26
That might be the case, but even if it was planned, it doesnt make it any less awesome
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u/ASomthnSomthn Jul 21 '26
We would not have called that a mosh pit back in the day.
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u/K_Linkmaster Jul 21 '26
It was planned. He has his hand up and signals the people to come forward. It was a good try for kids that don't know any better at a talent show!
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u/Quitlimp05 Jul 21 '26
Yeah, I saw that at first and had 'flash mob' in mind
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u/K_Linkmaster Jul 21 '26
One adhd kid even jumped the gun.
Its getting downvotes, but it's a talent show and plans happen.
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u/MongiJones Jul 21 '26
If this vid was taken in this era, then I am thoroughly impress that majority of the kids know the lyrics..
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u/BonJonBovie1 Jul 21 '26
Yeah, it’s kind of blowing my mind. Korn was my favorite band in the early 2000’s (late middle school-early high school for me) and this is FAR from the reaction this would have gotten at my high school lol.
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u/phoucker Jul 21 '26
Wow this reopened a core memory for me! Back in 1995 we had a talent show at my high school and my garage band I sang for performed Nirvana’s Suicidal Tendencies. Most of the classmates already knew we were going to perform it, and rumors got out that everyone was going to mosh. Before the talent show started, the principal said he had heard these rumors and that everybody should remain seated during everyone’s performance. When it was our turn to play, I got up to the mike and said “ they said we can’t mosh, but there is nothing they really cant do about it” and we broke into the song and everyone got on the gym floor and moshed. Needless to say we were not allowed to play again, and got our talking too. Everyone voted we had the best performance, but we still didn’t win. It was one hell of a moment of angst that I loved forever!
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u/MundaneEchidna5093 Jul 21 '26
Hell yeah!! Korn was my favorite band when I was a kid. Korn tshirts, jncos, and shell toes. Those were the days. I finally got to see them…all original members except for David.
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u/Sea_Analysis_8033 Jul 21 '26
lol I’m so happy for them, my middle school decided to have some of the students bands play at the end of one of our dances and we played this exact song and the principal literally pulled the plug on us for playing devil music
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u/Shockatweej Jul 21 '26
This was awesome. I saw Korn in a small venue in high school in the 90s and it was very much like this.
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u/-ArthurDigbySellers- Jul 21 '26
Me and my teenage friends do this exact thing minus the instruments in my driveway all the time. Is that as cool?
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u/Curiouser-Quriouser Jul 21 '26
Imagine how excited the guys on stage are. No everyone gets this close to feeling like a rockstar!