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1984 single by Twisted Sis

1984 single by Twisted Sister

"We're Not Gonna Accept Information technology"
Unmarried by Twisted Sister
from the anthology Stay Hungry
B-side	"You Can't End Rock & Ringlet"
Released	Apr 27, 1984
Recorded	January ane, 1984
Genre	Glam metallic hard rock[1] [ii] [iii] [4] heavy metallic[five] [six]
Length	3:38
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Dee Snider
Producer(southward)	Tom Werman
Twisted Sister singles chronology
"You Tin can't Stop Rock & Gyre" (1983) "We're Not Gonna Take Information technology" (1984) "I Wanna Rock" (1984)

"Nosotros're Not Gonna Take It" is a song by the American ring Twisted Sister from their album Stay Hungry. It was showtime released every bit a single (with "You Can't Stop Rock & Ringlet" every bit the B-side) on April 27, 1984. The Stay Hungry album was released two weeks subsequently, on May ten, 1984. The unmarried reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making it Twisted Sister's only Acme 40 single. In addition, it is also the band's highest-selling single in the United States, having been certified Gold on June 3, 2009 for sales of over 500,000 units. The song was ranked No. 47 on 100 Greatest lxxx's Songs and No. 21 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Striking Wonders of the 80s. It also received criticism when the Parents Music Resource Middle included the vocal on its "Filthy 15" list for alleged violent lyrical content, allegations that were refuted by lead vocalist Dee Snider.

Groundwork [edit]

"We're Not Gonna Take Information technology" was written by vocaliser Dee Snider. Equally influences for the song, he cites the glam rock band Slade and the Christmas carol "O Come up, All Ye Faithful".^{[seven] [8]} The end of the vocal uses lines from grapheme Douglas C. Niedermeyer in the picture show Animate being Business firm (e.g., "You're all worthless and weak!"). Mark Metcalf, who played Niedermeyer, stars in the video.

Music video [edit]

The music video was directed by Marty Callner with an emphasis on slapstick one-act. The video begins with a disobedient son (played by Callner's son, Dax) playing Twisted Sis songs in his bedroom while the rest of the family is eating dinner. The male parent, "Douglas C." (played by Marker Metcalf equally a graphic symbol like to his Douglas C. Niedermeyer from the 1978 film Creature House), goes to the boy's room and scolds him for being interested only in his guitar and Twisted Sister. At the terminate of the speech, he screams "What exercise you desire to do with your life?", to which the son replies "I Wanna Stone!" He strums his guitar and the audio blasts the father out of a nearby window. The male child transforms into Dee Snider, and the music begins. Snider sings to the other children, who turn into the rest of the band, and they wreak havoc on the family. The male parent gets the worst of the band's mischief, as he repeatedly tries and fails to get dorsum at the band members, getting knocked out of more windows and even a wall. However, fifty-fifty after a series of the father'southward failed retaliations, his wife happens past to awkwardly recover him, such every bit throwing a bucket of water onto him, dropping a first aid kit onto him, and even spraying his face with a hose.

Covers [edit]

The song has been covered by various artists including High german popular punk band Donots in 2002 (which became a minor hit in Deutschland, reaching 33 in the Singles Chart). It was also covered by Bif Naked for the film Ready To Rumble which besides became David Arquette'south archway theme while he appeared on WCW programing, and by Powerman 5000 for their tribute album Copies, Clones, and Replicants. It was besides covered past Shylon In 2022.

Ballad [edit]

In 2016, Dee Snider gave magician Criss Angel the rights to apply the vocal as an "anthem" for his HELP (Heal Every Life Possible) charity. "Dee and I accept known each other since the 1990s and he was a strong proponent of mine for years. We are both from Long Island, or as we like to recollect of it, 'Stiff Island,' and his tape publishing company gave me the rights to the song and it is our anthem for free."^[9] Snider appeared in a video of a stripped down acoustic version for the charity, recorded in the desert exterior Las Vegas and featuring children in hospital and a young woman shaving her head to symbolize fighting cancer.^[ten]

Legacy [edit]

VH-1's series True Spin explains the song as but an anthem of teen rebellion, just Snider appeared saying that he was happy that long after he is gone, "any time that the team is down past two, or somebody had a bad day at the role, they're gonna stand and sing We're Non Gonna Take It".

Parodies [edit]

• American singer "Weird Al" Yankovic included a version of the vocal in his "Hooked on Polkas" medley from Dare to Be Stupid.
• American ska punk band Reel Large Fish used the melody to the song every bit function of their song "Everybody's Drunk" with lyrics contradistinct to be: "We're all gonna go drunk! We're all gonna go drunk! Oh wait we're already drunk!"
• In 1999, the The states rock band Lit parodied the opening scene in their video for "Nix-Lock".
• The song is popularly known as "Huevos con aceite" ("Eggs with oil") in Spanish-speaking countries. In fact, Twisted Sis has sung it every bit "Huevos con Aceite" when giving concerts in Spanish-speaking regions.^[xi] In a Primavera commercial in Mexico, in that location was a parody named "Huevos con Aceite" with the lyrics: Huevos como siempre, oh no, ya no queremos, ahora con Primavera, desayunarán (Eggs every bit e'er, no. Nosotros don't want them. At present with Primavera butter, you'll take your breakfast).
• ApologetiX, a Christian parody band, released the song "Nosotros're Not Going To Canaan" on their 2014 release Loaded 45's.
• Spanish heavy metallic band Gigatrón released a version of this song with different Spanish lyrics titled "Heavy hasta la muerte",^[12] as a parody of beingness a true metal fan.

In politics [edit]

In 2012, Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan's campaign used the vocal in Mitt Romney'southward presidential campaign, until Snider asked Ryan not to play it anymore. Snider stated that he does not back up Ryan and he planned on voting for Obama.^{[thirteen] [14]}

In the summer of 2015, the song was adopted as the theme vocal for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The song was played subsequently all his entrada appearances where it was known unofficially as the Trump fight song.^[15] Newsweek reported Snider gave Trump permission to utilize the vocal.^[16] Snider later changed his heed, proverb that he had only allowed Trump to use the song because the 2 were friends, but then respectfully asked Trump to end using it as he did not hold with many of Trump's stances. Snider did non desire people to get the impression that he was endorsing Trump or his entrada.^[17]

During the 2018 teachers' strikes in the Usa, the song was used as a rallying weep by teachers striking in Oklahoma^[18] and Arizona.^[nineteen]

In Commonwealth of australia, Clive Palmer altered the lyrics to "Australia ain't gonna cop it" in a national Tv set campaign for United Australia Party ahead of the 2019 ballot. Twisted Sister condemned the unauthorized utilize of the song.^[20] Palmer disputed Twisted Sister'southward claim that they take any copyright over the portion of the song used in the advertisements, as he composed the lyrics and the melody was derived from "O Come, All Ye True-blue".^[21] In April 2021, Palmer was ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay $1.5 1000000 in damages for copyright infringement. Palmer was also ordered to pay legal costs and to remove all copies of the song and accompanying videos off the internet.^[22]

On telly [edit]

• Episode 6 of season 5 of the Television set series Person of Interest. It is sung past Harold Finch during a wedding.
• Young Sheldon episode fifteen called "Dolomite, Apple Slices, and a Mystery Adult female", the same episode also uses the Twisted Sister song "I Wanna Stone".^[23]
• Chuck, in the episode "Chuck Versus the Outset Impale". The song plays in the background of a battle between Fulcrum agents and the Sarah/Jill duo.^[24]
• "We're Not Gonna Take It" is the theme song of the American reality comedy serial Betty White's Off Their Rockers.
• The Regular Show episode "Karaoke Video" features lead characters Mordecai and Rigby singing "We're Not Gonna Have It" at a karaoke bar.
• On Flavor 5 of The Masked Singer, this was sung by the Orca (Mark McGrath).

Employ in advertisement [edit]

• In 1985, not-profit United Manner used snippets of the vocal and its music video to promote a program entitled "Changing the American Family unit". This was used as evidence during Snider'southward Senate hearing to point that the vocal was non fierce or obscene, since United Way used "the video'due south introduction with the demanding begetter" as a "low-cal-hearted way of talking nearly communication with teenagers".^[25]
• A commercial for hotel concatenation Extended Stay America^{[ when? ]}
• Commercials for the 2006 movie Charlotte's Web
• In 2009, Bridezillas used this vocal for their "family unit fights back" commercials.
• TV spots for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water in 2015.
• 2016 commercials for Veritas Technologies
• In a commercial for Comcast'south Xfinity service^{[ when? ]}, the song is parodied as "You're Not Gonna Lookout man Information technology". At the finish of the commercial, Snider is shown joking, "I used to like that song."
• 2015 commercials for Ed Morse, a Florida automobile dealership^[26]

Other uses [edit]

It was used in the films Gung Ho (1986), Atomic number 26 Eagle (1986), Corky Romano (2001), Max Keeble's Big Motion (2001), The Emoji Movie (2017), and Fix Histrion One (2018).

A encompass version plays during the credits of the 2017 video game Wolfenstein Ii: The New Colossus.

A 2005 re-recording of the song is featured in the Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock setlist, while the original version was released as downloadable content for Rock Band four in 2016.

With Snider's approval, the song was used past Ukrainians in protestation of the 2022 invasion by Russia.^[27]

Personnel [edit]

• Dee Snider - lead vocals
• Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda - pb guitar, backing vocals
• Jay Jay French - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mark "The Animate being" Mendoza - bass, backing vocals
• A. J. Pero - drums, percussion

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Chart (1984)	Height position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[28]	vi
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[29]	v
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[30]	two
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[31]	x
US Billboard Hot 100[32]	21
US Billboard Top Tracks[32]	20

Year-cease charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

References [edit]

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13. ^ "DEE SNIDER TO PAUL RYAN: STOP PLAYING MY SONG". AP. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
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15. ^ "Trump Fight Song". Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.
16. ^ Schonfeld, Zach (September viii, 2015). "Dee Snider on Why Donald Trump Can Use 'We're Non Gonna Take It'". Newsweek.
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18. ^ "Video of Oklahoma ring teachers performing "We're Not Gonna Take Information technology" at Capitol is going viral". KFOR.com. April iii, 2018. Retrieved July eleven, 2018.
19. ^ Egeland, Alexis (April 29, 2018). "'We're Not Gonna Take It': Arizona teachers band together for #RedForEd". The Arizona Commonwealth . Retrieved February 9, 2021.
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28. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Study nautical chart was licensed by ARIA betwixt 1983 and June 12, 1988.
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32. ^ ^{a b} "Stay Hungry – Awards". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved June v, 2013.
33. ^ "Kent Music Report No 548 – 31 December 1984 > National Top 100 Singles for 1984". Kent Music Report. Retrieved Jan 8, 2022 – via Imgur.com.
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