Falling Away From Me - Music Video

Music Video

The video, which received its world premiere on MTV in November 1999 during Spankin' New Music Week, was directed by Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst. It begins as a continuation of the famous video for "Freak on a Leash", starting with its closing animation. The video shows a young woman clearly distraught by an abuser (her father). Inside her room, she opens a box and appears to see the band inside, performing below hanging lightbulbs. The band is then surrounded by flashes of green electricity, and then appear inside her bedroom with flashes of red electricity. A crowd of young people have gathered outside the window, raising their arms in time to the beat. As her father angrily approaches her room with a belt in his hand, someone appears outside her window and helps her get outside. She leaves the house as the song ends and the crowd scatters. The band dissolves into red electricity and goes straight back into the box in her hands. She then runs off into the night.

In the original version of the video, shortly before the band disappears into the box (once the teenage girl escapes through the window), Fred Durst made a "cameo" appearance in the video - his face appearing for a brief moment during one of the close-up shots of Jonathan Davis. Due to reasons which are somewhat unclear (it's rumoured that Davis spotted the cameo and objected), subsequent versions of the video have had the Fred Durst cameo removed.

The video enjoyed similar success to its predecessor, "Freak on a Leash", debuting on MTV's Total Request Live at number three, and reaching number one on its seventh day. It would eventually become Korn's third "retired" video on the program, with ten non-consecutive days at number one.