We cannot allow this to continue."ĭee Snider appears on Capitol Hill at the Parents Music Resource Center senate hearing in 1985. The examples I cited earlier showed clear evidence of Twisted Sister's music being completely misinterpreted and unfairly judged by supposedly well-informed adults. Snider said in testimony that day: "The beauty of literature, poetry and music is that they leave room for the audience to put its own imagination, experiences and dreams into the words. You know, 'You got your homework, Dee?' 'Yeah.' And then I just laid them out." I'm gonna have my speech that we worked on for two weeks stuffed in the back pocket of my skinny jeans.' And I pulled it out like the bad kid in class. And I said, 'They're gonna look at me, and I'm gonna play right into this.
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"There was an old TV show called Columbo with Peter Falk, and it was this bumbling detective who seemed like such a screw-up but he was actually brilliant.
"I knew I was going to blindside 'em," Snider says. Not Snider: He showed up with a black cutoff t-shirt, ripped-up jeans and his signature explosion of long, curly blond hair. You'd think even a rock star might wear a suit for the occasion, or at least a button down shirt. This can’t happen to these people again.On September 19, 1985, Dee Snider was called to testify before the U.S. “My grandfather was Ukrainian before it was swallowed up by the USSR after WW2.
“I absolutely approve of Ukrainians using ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their battle cry,” said Snider. Snider recently endorsed the use of the song as a battlecry in Ukraine, following the recent invasion of the country by Russia. In 2018, teachers striking in Oklahoma and Arizona used the song, while demanding salary increases and more school funding. Today, “We’re Not Gonna Take It” remains one of the heaviest metal songs of protest, and is still used by groups who need the perfect rallying cry. Weird “Al” Yankovic even included a polka parody of the song on his 1985 album Dare to Be Stupid. Throughout the decades, “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has been reinterpreted by artists across genres, including Christian, Spanish, and punk. The song was also used in the Broadway show Rock of Ages, and cover versions featured in the 2005 video games Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017. We cannot allow this to continue.”įor nearly 40 years “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has been featured in film and television, including the 1986 films Gung Ho and Iron Eagle, Corky Romano and Max Keeble’s Big Move in 2001, and Ready Player One in 2018. “The examples I cited earlier showed clear evidence of Twisted Sister’s music being completely misinterpreted and unfairly judged by supposedly well-informed adults. “The beauty of literature, poetry, and music is that they leave room for the audience to put its own imagination, experiences and dreams into the words,” said Snider in his testimony. Senate in defense of their freedom of expression as artists and against censorship in music. 1985, Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Snider-donned ripped jeans and a cut-off shirt and his perfectly coifed mess of blonde curls-testified before the U.S. The PMRC also released a list of “Filthy 15” songs, which the group said contained sexually explicit lyrics or descriptions of alcohol use and intoxication, and included Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop,” Def Leppard’s “High ‘n’ Dry (Saturday Night),” and Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walls.” Also on the list was Twisted Sister’s rock anthem. Already disturbed by lyrics in songs by artists like Madonna and Prince, the group quickly attacked the hard rock genre, which eventually led to the RIAA agreeing to put “Parental Advisory” stickers on albums with what was deemed “explicit” content. In the 1980s, the mutiny of heavy metal began, when many songs came under direct attack by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), led by Al Gore’s then-wife Tipper Gore. So I wanted to write an anthem for the audience to raise their fists in the air in righteous anger.” “I’m from the Alice Cooper school of ‘School’s Out,’ ‘I’m Eighteen’… and Alice was very big on these anthemic songs. “I wanted to write an anthem,” said Dee Snider in a 2018 interview. Written by Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider for the band’s 1984 album Stay Hungry, the chorus came to Snider fairly quickly but took three more years to flesh out the song lyrics before its release.
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