k_juice14 January 21st, 2006 10:33PM  
This song is not about transistors. It is about the life that women who spend their lives at concerts and clubs lead.
there is a comparison between 2 things here: the music, and the transistor. The woman is a socket (or whatever, I don't now the elictrical term) and the music is the transistor. a transistor is something that you INSERT, thus the line:Hold it between your legs." the "wind" is that windy sound that amps make when you plug in a guitar cable. It is all a sexual allusion.

"A lonely life, where no one understands you
But don't give up, because the music do "

this shows the lonely life that these girls lead, where they think that no one loves them. a lot of people submit themselves totally to music becuase they have no one else to submit to (fall in love with).

"Your scream's a whisper"

as the music gets louder, which is what she wants (eg, turn it up! turn it up!) it eventually consumes her, and gets so loud that her screams are drowned out.

"And as your tears fall on
Your breast, your dress
Vibrations coming through "

this part talks about how she has become part of the music, and ceases to exist. It is like when you put a liquid in another liquid: it becomes part of the other liquid. Her tears give proof to this. Sound makes vibrations, and because her tears make vibrations, that means that she is sound itself, she ceases to exist.

i don't understand this part :
"Hey you, hey you, this won't hurt a bit
This won't hurt a bit, this won't hurt
Says who? Says who?
Anesthetize this bitch
Anesthetize this bitch, anesthetize!
Just let me be
Between you and me don't fit "

maybe someone can fill me in

tre1f69king1cool February 25th, 2006 11:38AM  
I think it maens not to give up on life.


"a lonely life where no one understands you,
but don't give up"

XenoManiac April 5th, 2006 08:03AM  
Hey I do think it's about vibrators. The lyrics are very suggestive of this.

"hold it between your legs
turn it up, turn it up"

"inside you forever preaching"

"your scream's a whisper"

"vibrations coming through
you're in a mess"

etc etc. I really like the line "your scream's a whisper". Well.. when you r like masturbating, inside of your head you will be screaming away. But then since its such a personal thing, you just let it out as a whisper.

however, I don't think that's all. I believe the band meant to use the vibrator as a symbol of self-indulgence, like the music we listen to when we are sad, angry, happy etc etc.

The vibrator say to the girl,

"hey you, hey you, this won't hurt a bit
this won't hurt a bit, this won't hurt
says who? says who?
anesthetize this bitch
anesthetize this bitch, anesthetize!
just let me be
between you and them things"

On the other hand, maybe the humming of the vibrator is seen as a "music" of sort, albeit a sinful one.

Lol, maybe I'm dead wrong. Just my opinion.

anonymous April 10th, 2006 06:29AM  
This is about male to female (mtf) transsexuals.
Transistor sounds like Trans Sister.

Hey you, hey you, Devil's little sister
/ They are sometimes viewed (by the religeous, for example) as an obomination, or an opposition to god.

Listening to your Twisted Transistor
/ Twisting a transistor could cause a short, and change the behaviour of an electronic circuit. It's listening to the urge to be female.

Hold it between your legs
/ Hiding the genitals (known as tucking) to give a female appearance.

Turn it up, turn it up
/ Refers to the increasing changes in behaviour and apearance.

The wind is coming through
/ Refers to the finding of one's true self, it is a force of nature.

Can't get enough
/ The transsexual's increasing desire to transistion.

A lonely life, where no one understands you
/ Rejection (or worse) from family and friends is not uncommon for transsexuals.

But don't give up, because the music do
Music do [x6]
/ a showing of understanding/support

Your scream's a whisper
/ Transexuals often suffer in silence, keeping their secret, for fear of rejection.

Hey you, hey you, finally you get it
The world ain't fair, eat you if you let it
/ The intollerant will do anything to stop them.

And as your tears fall on
Your breast, your dress
/ hiding one's true self causes great sadness.

Vibrations coming through
/ Those that support and understand are reaching out.

You're in a mess
/ Transsexuals often loose their family, friends, employment and more simply because of who they are.

Hey you, hey you, this won't hurt a bit
This won't hurt a bit, this won't hurt
/ A transsexual's transistion is for personal reasons, not to turt anyone.

Says who? Says who?
/ People close to the transsexual often see the transistion as the death of the person that they have known, or as a way of punishment or retaliation.

Anesthetize this bitch
Anesthetize this bitch, anesthetize!
/ The voice of a surgeon. Surgery is often viewed as the final stage of transistion.

Just let me be
/ The will of the transsexual.

Between you and me don't fit
/ The voice of those that are not accepting of the transsexual.

chantze May 17th, 2006 05:54AM  
But I will say listening to yall try to figure that part out is the funny thing I have ever see roflmao!

anonymous September 3rd, 2006 02:43AM  
I think it's actually referring to both music and masturbation. It doesn't really matter which way you look at it, they both have the same purpose for her: comfort, and understanding.

KoRnFrEaK313 January 26th, 2007 10:56AM  
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.

anonymous September 1st, 2007 08:35PM  
Whoever said that all of KoRn's songs are about sex or dirtiness is totally wrong. All KoRn songs have a veneer of perversion to them, but a ton of them have deeper meaning. I'm not sure what this song's about (you guys have all given good interpretations), but I'm sure that if it was supposed to be about jacking off, it would be a lot more obvious.

anonymous October 19th, 2007 10:09PM  
It's about feeling alone and listening angry music.
It is NOT about masturbating with vibrators or woofers.
That's idiotic.

anonymous December 19th, 2007 12:55PM  
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.

anonymous April 17th, 2008 04:12PM  
Just use Wikipdeia!
Concept
"You know that feeling when you're alone in your room, you feel bad and nothing around you seems to be going well then suddenly when you turn on your radio, you are immediately 'deep in the music'. That's exactly the subject of Twisted Transistor with the lyrics: "A lonely life where no one understands you but don't give up because the music does". – Jonathan Davis

anonymous July 17th, 2008 11:45PM  
I am a huge Korn fan, and after reading what you already put together on this song,how she basically is letting the music become part of her,and is basically,like you said, having a sexual illusion, well I got to thinking, and well, maybe the part that you don't get is about rape...

anonymous February 7th, 2009 10:14PM  
There is no crazy ass deep meaning to this song! It about life sucks and music will always be there for you!

anonymous May 3rd, 2009 08:02PM  
well the hole thing with the girl is what the song is about but the actual meaning to the song is in the song "A lonely life, where no one understands you But don't give up, because the music do Music do" its saying that the music will be with you johnothen davis even said this \ "You know that feeling when you're alone in your room, you feel bad and nothing around you seems to be going well then suddenly when you turn on your radio, you are immediately 'deep in the music'. That's exactly the subject of Twisted Transistor with the lyrics: "A lonely life where no one understands you but don't give up because the music do"

anonymous June 13th, 2009 11:50AM  
Its a simple song people its a severely depressed girl who trys using music to make her better but we al know music is depressing and he is telling her don't listen just cause its saying fuck you don't absorb everything its saying what the hells wrong with and she is also using drugs to keep herself calm hence the this won't hurt a bit part

anonymous August 25th, 2009 07:31PM  
Alright, you at the top... I would have, WOULD HAVE, believed your story, but.. "Hold it between your legs, turn it up, turn it up" WHY WOULD SHE HAVE A RADIO AND HOLD IT BETWEEN HER LEGS WHILE TURNING IT UP!?!? No, if she had free hands to turn the radio up, she would have free hands to hold the radio. And why do you believe, if this was about a radio in between her legs, that it is strictly music-related? As if you were in denial... It's quite possible that she was using the music or bass of vibrations WHILE masturbating. It doesn't have to be strictly music or sex, why can't it be she's having sex and is using music to drown out her moans? Or, hell, using the bass's vibrations as a turn-on. Some people need to be more open-minded when interpreting...

anonymous November 2nd, 2009 09:39PM  
hey K juice it could b a sexual term...it wont hurt a bit...a man trying to reassure the woman that it "wont hurt a bit"

anonymous November 22nd, 2009 11:17PM  
This song ain't about booty is about transistor, ya dig?