(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)
| (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) | |
|---|---|
| Beastie Boys | |
| publication | February 22, 1987 |
| length | 3:29 |
| Genre (s) | Rap rock hard rock |
| Author (s) | Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin , Tom Cushman |
| album | Licensed to Ill |
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!) (Short: Fight for Your Right ) is a song by the American hip-hop group Beastie Boys . It was released as the fourth single from their debut album Licensed to Ill in 1986 and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In 1995 the song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll . The track can also be found on the albums The Sounds of Science (1999) and Solid Gold Hits (2005).
Intention and Reception
Ironically, the song, written by Adam Yauch and Tom "Tommy Triphammer" Cushman, was originally designed as a parody of party songs such as Smokin 'in the Boys Room ( Brownsville Station , 1973) and I Wanna Rock ( Twisted Sister , 1984). However, the irony was not noticed by most of the listeners. Commenting on this, Michael “Mike D” Diamond said, “The only thing that bothers me is that we may have amplified certain feelings from some people in the audience that were totally opposite to our own feelings. There were quite a few guys who sang along to Fight for Your Right who were blind to the fact that this song was actually making fun of them. "
Music video
Ric Menello and Adam Dubin directed the video for the song, which ends in a big cake fight . There are a number of guest appearances: The then unknown TV reporter Tabitha Soren , the rapper LL Cool J , members of the punk rock band Murphy's Law and the producer of the Beastie Boys Rick Rubin , who wears an AC / DC and Slayer T-shirt in the video wearing.
Soren, whose hair was dyed blonde for the shoot, took part because she was friends with Rubin. In an interview, she said about the shooting: “I kept trying not to come into contact with the sticky cakes because the whipped cream used was collected from the waste of some supermarkets, because the video budget did not allow for whipped cream money. So the cakes were bad and smelled of putrid. The whole room smelled of bad eggs after the cake fight. One was inclined to break. "
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Adam Yauch wrote and directed a surreal short film comedy in 2011 called Fight for Your Right Revisited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original video. The film served as the video for the single Make Some Noise from the album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two . Most of the protagonists' thought leap dialogues were improvised.
Revisited tells the story of what happened in the original video: The members of the Beastie Boys, Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA (played by Seth Rogen , Elijah Wood and Danny McBride ) fooling around drunk before they are finally told by their counterparts from the future ( played by John C. Reilly , Will Ferrell and Jack Black ), who join a DeLorean, are challenged to a dance battle .
Many other well-known people from show business appear again: Stanley Tucci , Susan Sarandon , Steve Buscemi , Alicia Silverstone , Laura Dern , Shannyn Sossamon , Kirsten Dunst , Ted Danson , Rashida Jones , Jason Schwartzman , Rainn Wilson , Amy Poehler , Mary Steenburgen , Will Arnett , Adam Scott , Chloë Sevigny , Maya Rudolph , David Cross , Orlando Bloom , Martin Starr and the "real" Beastie Boys. Many of the celebrities only appear for a few seconds.
The song Fight for Your Right itself is not sung, but it is played briefly at the beginning of the film.
Cover versions
- The group Public Enemy sampled the song in 1988 for "Party for Your Right to Fight".
- The German music project NYCC reached number 11 in the German singles charts with a cover version in 1998, where it stayed in the top 100 for a total of 17 weeks.
- McFly covered Fight for Your Right as B-side on the single Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania . This version is also on the album The Greatest Bits: B-Sides & Rarities .
- Sammy Hagar covered the song in 2008 for his solo album Cosmic Universal Fashion .
- On August 2, 2009, during the final night of the All Points West Music & Arts Festival, Coldplay performed an acoustic piano version of the song in honor of the Beastie Boys, who could not perform because Adam Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. Coldplay repeated the appearance on May 4, 2012 during their concert at the Hollywood Bowl in honor of Yauch, who passed away on the same day.
- Singer-songwriter Cara Quici covered the song in 2013 with the title Fight .
- In the series Glee (episode: "Sweet Dreams") the characters Finn Hudson ( Cory Monteith ) and Noah "Puck" Puckerman ( Mark Salling ) sang Fight for Your Right . It was the last song recorded by Monteith before he died.
- The hardcore punk group Deez Nuts also covered the piece on their album Stay True with the title Fight for Your Right .
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
25th (11 weeks) | 11 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
11 (13 weeks) | 13 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
7th (18 weeks) | 18th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Grierson: Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch Has Died . About.com. Retrieved July 2, 2013. "As a member of Beastie Boys, Yauch (who recorded under the name MCA) helped pioneer rap-rock with (...) classic tracks like '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)" and 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' "
- ^ Stratton, Jon: Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor . Ashgate, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-6804-6 , p. 10. “The Beastie Boys' success came from their acceptance by African-American audiences while making rap understandable to white audiences by combining it with hard rock - the most important example of this being '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)'. "
- ↑ The Beastie Boys: The Fresh Air Interview - aired March 29, 2006
- ↑ Gil Kaufman: Beastie Boys Video Director Ric Menello Dead At 60 . In: mtv.com , March 4, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ↑ Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution . Dutton, New York, NY 2011, ISBN 978-0-525-95230-5 , pp. 278-279.
- ↑ Public Enemy - Party For Your Right To Fight on YouTube
- ↑ Information on musicline.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Coldplay pays tribute to the Beastie Boys with Fight For Your Right performance
- ↑ Coldplay pay tribute to Adam Yauch with Fight For Your Right performance ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RIP MCA , ColdplayTV on YouTube
- ↑ Cara Quici. In: Today's Girl. Maxim , July 22, 2013, archived from the original on April 17, 2014 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 (English).
- ^ Allmusic : Deez Nutz | Biography & History
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE UK US
