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Title: Fight For Your Rights Link: Fight For Your Rights This is a protest song. Because I'm in a bad mood. A really bad mood. But before you ask: No, I have no idea what exactly I'm protesting against, but I'm pretty sure it's important. For a change, I tried a wild mix of end rhymes and internal rhymes. I think it kinda works. At least I'd like to think so. Feedback (the good, the bad and the ugly) as always highly appreciated. I'd suck even more without you guys! As always, a BIG thank you to Marty for taking the time to listen to my unfinished song and give me feedback. Some technical information:Style: DEVIANT.STY The band:Bass: 3586 Drums: PraiseWorshipUptempo16 Guitars: 407, 1120, 1682, 4386, 4387, 4388, 3931 Vocals: Natalie + BG vocals Cong and Solaria Mixed (as always) by yours truly You can find the lyrics in the next post.
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Title: Fight For Your Rights
(Verse)
You feel big each time you make me small
But no matter what you do, I'm not scared at all
Just because you're big doesn't make you right
No matter what you do, no matter what you try
I will fight for our rights
(Chorus)
I won't back down, I won't stay quiet
I'll never shut up, I'll start a riot
I won't accept whatever is wrong
I'll shout it out loud with a song
I won't back down, I won't stay quiet
I'll never shut up, I'll start a riot
I won't accept whatever is wrong
I'll shout it out loud with a song
(Verse)
You build your power on our bare despair
Exploiting the weak like a bloodsucking vampire freak
You trample on dreams, instill constant fear
But we stay here and will not disappear
Angry voices you'll hear
(Chorus)
We won't back down, we won't stay quiet
We'll never shut up, we'll start a riot
We won't accept whatever is wrong
We'll shout it out loud with a song
We won't back down, we won't stay quiet
We'll never shut up, we'll start a riot
We won't accept whatever is wrong
We'll shout it out loud with a song
(Bridge)
In the shadows of your tower so tall
You think you own the world, you think you've got it all
But your wealth will never silence the voice of the small
You will never, ever silence us all
(Chorus)
We won't back down, we won't stay quiet
We'll never shut up, we'll start a riot
We won't accept whatever is wrong
We'll shout it out loud with a song
We won't back down, we won't stay quiet
We'll never shut up, we'll start a riot
We won't accept whatever is wrong
We'll shout it out loud with a song
(Outro)
Your power will never silence the voice of the small
You will never, ever see us all crawl
Last edited by B.D.Thomas; 02/06/24 01:42 PM. Reason: Lyrics added
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Hi,
Good song and especially the chorus,
As always I'm in awe of Natalie's vocals - amazing.
Well done.
Best Regards
Nigel
Nigel Spiers
Christchurch, New Zealand
info@nzacoustics.com
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Brain, this is a really great all-purpose protest song. Could be about something big. Or everything. Very clever in how you put this together, even with your bad mood. The instruments, arrangement and mix sound stellar.
Your vocalists sometimes have little nuances in delivering a line that sound incredibly human. At other times the vocal delivery is not that of a natural sounding human, but quite ethereal and still very cool. This is a long winded way of saying that I love whatever you're doing with Natalie, Cong and Solaria.
So...two thumbs up from me!
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Brian,
I think this sounds awesome! Natalie sounds great with this arrangement and tracks selection.
I am actually getting an early Blondie vibe that I really like.
Excellent song!
Bob
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Hi,
Good song and especially the chorus,
As always I'm in awe of Natalie's vocals - amazing.
Well done.
Best Regards
Nigel Thank you for listening and your nice comment, Nigel. Much appreciated!
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Brian,
Ron's right - this is written such that it could be used to protest almost anything - kudos.
Good BAND. Catchy Pop.
Good mix.
Well done.
fj
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Brain, this is a really great all-purpose protest song. Could be about something big. Or everything. Very clever in how you put this together, even with your bad mood. The instruments, arrangement and mix sound stellar.
Your vocalists sometimes have little nuances in delivering a line that sound incredibly human. At other times the vocal delivery is not that of a natural sounding human, but quite ethereal and still very cool. This is a long winded way of saying that I love whatever you're doing with Natalie, Cong and Solaria.
So...two thumbs up from me! Thanks a lot, Ron. However, I'm not 100% sure whether it works despite or because of my bad mood 
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Brian...that was great...I'm so amazed at the AI voices...stellar production of both instrumentation and vox...I was going to protest the song but not quite sure what the song was protesting...so I'll protest protesting...how's that?...at any rate I enjoyed the song very much...BTW how long does it take from start to finish on a song such as this?
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Really nice music, lyrics and video! Very good contras between vers and chorus. You should put this on Spotify if you haven't already!
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I love your setup for the song: "This is a protest song. Because I'm in a bad mood. A really bad mood. But before you ask: No, I have no idea what exactly I'm protesting against, but I'm pretty sure it's important."  Great chorus and Natalie's voice soars on it. My only critique is when she sings "like a bloodsucking vampire freak." Her phrasing is garbled and awkward. Maybe it's too much of a mouthful of words for a synth girl like her. Send her back to the studio to re-sing that line. 
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Brian,
First off, 2 things that caught my ear, is the great sound of the drums/bass combo! Also, this has a great mix to my ears and the work with the vocals is so good! It's a great rockin' tune!
Thanks, TB
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Brian,
I think this sounds awesome! Natalie sounds great with this arrangement and tracks selection.
I am actually getting an early Blondie vibe that I really like.
Excellent song!
Bob Thank you very much, Bob. Sounding like Blondie is new. I assume you mean the older stuff where Blondie was more punk. I'm fine with that 
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Brian,
Ron's right - this is written such that it could be used to protest almost anything - kudos.
Good BAND. Catchy Pop.
Good mix.
Well done.
fj I guess in times like these it's always good to have an all-purpose protest song at hand, just in case.... Thank you Floyd for listening and your feedback. Much appreciated ![[Linked Image - Only viewable when logged in]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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Hi Brain,
I saw the song passing by on YT some days ago, but I couldn't listen then.
I knew one thing for sure; it must be a great song, with great lyrics and a wonderful videoclip.
Well, today I listened. You exceeded my expectations! Not by much because they were already high.
Natalie is so good. How you did the video was really cool too. They exceeded my expectations the most.
So simple, but so effective (if you can read ;-))
Oh, and about what to protest for; I can give you a list of names from people and institutions. Interested?
Hans
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Hi BD.
Love the sound of this racing along. Reminds me of a band I've heard before but can't put a name to it at the moment. Like Soft Punk with a melody.
The vocal is like a young male to my ears which is fine.
Good one.
Vic
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Brian...that was great...I'm so amazed at the AI voices...stellar production of both instrumentation and vox...I was going to protest the song but not quite sure what the song was protesting...so I'll protest protesting...how's that?...at any rate I enjoyed the song very much...BTW how long does it take from start to finish on a song such as this? Thank you Dan for listening and your feedback, I really appreciate it For some reason I'm often asked how long it takes me to write my songs. Of course it always varies a bit. Here, the first BIAB version was saved on January 17th, the song was finished on February 2nd and the final video was uploaded on February 6th. So I worked on the music for about 16 days, and normally I work (give or take, I have a family and more children than an African herder has cattle) about 2 hours a day on a song. Some days I haven't worked on it at all, other days more, but I think my average is close to that. That's 32 hours for this song. I spend by far the most time on the lyrics, but that's to be expected if you're stupid enough (like me ) NOT to write in your native language. The same calculation applies to the video, which needed around 8 hours.
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Hello Brian
This is a very very cool song
Very good songwriting
The topic is more topical than ever before
And because you keep the lyrics quite general, the song speaks to many people and their problems
Very well done
Many greetings
Andi ;-)
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Brain, if I didn't know Natalie was a synth voice I would have thought a human was singing.
Excellent job on that and the backing tracks and mix.
This is a great protest song so maybe you should get angry more often?
Loved it.
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Another good pop rock song with a powerful message. When there are many small voices, they can overcome one bigger one.
Pleasant and catchy melody. Very good arrangement, nice dynamics once again, I enjoy very much those acoustic parts.
My only very tiny problem is with the vocal effect, I feel it is not needed, because the music and lyrics speak enough for the anger.
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