{"id":2525,"date":"2004-05-24T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T03:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/were-not-gonna-take-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:45:02","slug":"were-not-gonna-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/were-not-gonna-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>This is so incredibly bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>Currently playing on our in-store Muzak system: Twisted Sister&#8217;s &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn between laughing, singing along, and just being amazed that Twisted Sister&#8217;s pean to 80&#8217;s glam rock anti-establishment rebellion has been deemed acceptable for Muzak.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  We&#8217;ve got the right to choose and<br \/>\n  there ain&#8217;t no way we&#8217;ll lose it &#8212;<br \/>\n  this is our life, this is our song.<br \/>\n  We&#8217;ll fight the powers that be, just<br \/>\n  don&#8217;t pick our destiny, &#8217;cause<br \/>\n  you don&#8217;t know us, you don&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, you&#8217;re so condescending,<br \/>\n  your gall is never ending,<br \/>\n  we don&#8217;t want nothin&#8217;, not a thing from you!<br \/>\n  Your life is trite and jaded,<br \/>\n  boring and confiscated.<br \/>\n  If that&#8217;s your best, your best won&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>  Oh&#8230;<br \/>\n  Oh&#8230;<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re right! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re free! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;ll fight! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  You&#8217;ll see! (Yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  No way!<\/p>\n<p>  Oh&#8230;<br \/>\n  Oh&#8230;<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re right! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re free! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;ll fight! (Yeah!)<br \/>\n  You&#8217;ll see! (Yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  No! We ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  Oh, we&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<\/p>\n<p>  (Just you try and make us.)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re not gonna take it!<br \/>\n  (Come on!)<br \/>\n  No, we ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  (You&#8217;re all worthless and weak.)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!<br \/>\n  (Now drop and give me twenty.)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re not gonna take it.<br \/>\n  (Oh, crinch pin.)<br \/>\n  No, we ain&#8217;t gonna take it.<br \/>\n  (Oh, you and your uniform.)<br \/>\n  We&#8217;re not gonna take it anymore!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently playing on our in-store Muzak system: Twisted Sister&#8217;s &#8216;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It!&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2537],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-twisted-sister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}