U.S. band "Twisted Sister" performs within the Hell and Heaven music competition in Mexico Metropolis, Saturday, July 23, 2016. (AP Picture/Christian Palma)
Because the Russian army continues its assault on Ukraine, the 1984 hit music, "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister has grow to be an unofficial anthem for Ukrainians protesting the invasion.
Dee Snider, the band's lead singer, tweeted in help of the Ukrainians final week, saying, "I completely approve of Ukrainians utilizing 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as their battlecry," including that his grandfather was Ukrainian.
Twisted Sister guitarist and founding member Jay Jay French says its "an extremely fulfilling feeling" to know that the music is having an influence.
"Once I was 20, did I feel I might be in a band that may create a music that may wind up being so necessary … that it could possibly be used as a uniting anthem? I'd've mentioned that is loopy," he advised CTV Information Channel on Friday.
French says he is not shocked by the influence that the monitor has had, provided that the band has carried out the music over 9,000 instances in packed stadiums around the globe during the last 5 many years.
"As a result of we performed stadiums for a lot of, a few years, we might see 100,000 folks singing the music in unison around the globe, and it was modified in several languages. So, we form of knew the common influence of the music," he mentioned.
However Snider hasn't endorsed using the music for each protest. In September 2020, when anti-mask activists sang the music at an illustration inside a Florida Goal retailer, Snider mentioned the protesters "shouldn't have my permission or blessing to make use of my music for his or her moronic trigger."
Snider additionally mentioned on Twitter final week that the Ukrainians have been combating "a righteous battle in opposition to oppression" whereas calling the anti-maskers "childish toes stomping in opposition to an inconvenience."
French takes a special view, acknowledging that the music has been utilized by folks throughout the political spectrum.
"There have been a few events through which Dee has voiced help for sure political positions as a result of folks have taken that music, but it surely would not matter what his place is or my place is. If the music represents one thing for you … we perceive that and we've got to simply accept it," he mentioned.
French mentioned he hopes that the Russian assaults on Ukraine come to a fast finish and believes that music may play an element in bringing peace.
"To the extent the place music can perhaps cease bullets and bombs, perhaps that is a part of it," French mentioned. "We hope that this ends shortly and that the Ukrainians can survive this horrible onslaught in opposition to democracy.
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