Difference between revisions of "Fight The Power"
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|song name = Fight The Power | |song name = Fight The Power | ||
− | |single image = [[File:Unreleasedsong.jpg|link=Unreleased Songs]] | + | |single image = [[File:Unreleasedsong.jpg|link=Unreleased Songs]] |
|performer = [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] | |performer = [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] | ||
|writer(s) = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_%22Vietnam%22_Sadler Eric "Vietnam" Sadler], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Shocklee Hank Shocklee] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Shocklee Keith Shocklee] | |writer(s) = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_%22Vietnam%22_Sadler Eric "Vietnam" Sadler], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Shocklee Hank Shocklee] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Shocklee Keith Shocklee] | ||
− | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) | + | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] <small>(assumed)</small> |
|previous song = [[Fast Car]] | |previous song = [[Fast Car]] | ||
|next song = [[Fire]] | |next song = [[Fire]] | ||
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The song was then performed live on [[10_July 1999-am|10 July 1999 (a.m.)]] before its studio version premiered during a [[Paisley Park Studios]] party on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_7|7 August 1999 (a.m.)]]. [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s version of the track remains unreleased, although soon after its recording, [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s track [[Undisputed]], featuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] (who rapped on and co-wrote '''Fight The Power'''), was released on [[Album: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic]]. | The song was then performed live on [[10_July 1999-am|10 July 1999 (a.m.)]] before its studio version premiered during a [[Paisley Park Studios]] party on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_7|7 August 1999 (a.m.)]]. [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s version of the track remains unreleased, although soon after its recording, [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s track [[Undisputed]], featuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] (who rapped on and co-wrote '''Fight The Power'''), was released on [[Album: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic]]. | ||
− | Interestingly, [[Wendy Melvoin]] said in an [https://pandora.app.link/8JoNasgAiHb interview in 2016] that '''Fight The Power''' was the song that changed [[Prince]]’s appreciation of rap music: ''"I remember after we broke the band up ([[The Revolution]]), and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing Do The Right Thing] has just come out, [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] and I went to Minneapolis and I was a fanatic for the main title song. I put it on there, at Paisley, and he seemed visibly angry at the track. It was because he was so uneasy, I think, with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] and the cadence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck]’s voice being in that lower, sort of demanding frequency, kind of freaked him out. It was like, "why am I being assaulted with that?". And as soon as it was played in the room, everybody was getting up and dancing. I think it’s like when the Metal people when they heard Nirvana they said "Oh my God, it’s changed". I think he knew it changed, right there [with '''Fight The Power'''], he knew it."'' According to [[Lisa]]: ''"It was almost the antithesis of what [[Prince]] was trying to do. He was aiming at your grandmother now, not at your kids. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] was aiming at the kids."'' | + | Interestingly, [[Wendy Melvoin]] said in an [https://pandora.app.link/8JoNasgAiHb interview in 2016] that '''Fight The Power''' was the song that changed [[Prince]]’s appreciation of rap music: ''"I remember after we broke the band up ([[The Revolution]]), and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing Do The Right Thing] has just come out, [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] and I went to Minneapolis and I was a fanatic for the main title song. I put it on there, at Paisley, and he seemed visibly angry at the track. It was because he was so uneasy, I think, with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] and the cadence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck]’s voice being in that lower, sort of demanding frequency, kind of freaked him out. It was like, "why am I being assaulted with that?". And as soon as it was played in the room, everybody was getting up and dancing. I think it’s like when the Metal people when they heard [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) Nirvana] they said "Oh my God, it’s changed". I think he knew it changed, right there [with '''Fight The Power'''], he knew it."'' According to [[Lisa]]: ''"It was almost the antithesis of what [[Prince]] was trying to do. He was aiming at your grandmother now, not at your kids. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D Chuck D] was aiming at the kids."'' |
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