Throughout an look on the “New Concept Podcast”, Dee Snider spoke about his choice to promote his Snidest Music music publishing catalog of 69 songs — together with the basic TWISTED SISTER rock anthems “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock” — to Common Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in 2015.

The songs within the catalog have been featured in quite a few nationwide commercials, movies, tv and the Broadway musical “Rock Of Ages”, which had a three-year residency on the Venetian after which a one-year residency at Rio All-Suite Lodge & On line casino in Las Vegas till January 2017.

Relating to why he selected to promote his publishing catalog, Dee stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is math. And I used to be advised there’d be no math [laughs] in rock and roll… However when you find yourself getting your royalty checks yearly, and so they’re huge — I am within the 50-percent tax bracket between state [and federal taxes] — so that they’re chopping off 50 %. However capital good points on a sale of property is, like, 15, 20 %. So for those who can — they name it multiples. They offer you 10 years’ price of royalties upfront, or no matter that quantity is. While you do the mathematics, you take a look at it and also you go, ‘Okay, I am gonna save 30 % on taxes.’ It is not even assured that 10 years from now… I imagine these songs will nonetheless have worth. They’re taking an opportunity. And I can take this chunk of change and I can make investments it and safe it and make it my retirement fund, which I did. So it goes from being a factor that is available in and also you’re getting half of it taken away by the federal government each six months to a factor, assured, ‘Okay, I know I can work with this.’ So lots of people are doing it for simply that motive.”

Snider went on to say that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock” are “the 2 most licensed songs of the ’80s. They’re like the place ‘We Are The Champions’ and ‘We Will Rock You’ had been within the ’70s,” he defined. “At first, there was a lull after the demise of the band and when grunge got here in. However unexpectedly, I assume it was within the mid-to-late Nineties, this retro factor began, and there was this resurgence. And so we began getting this licensing. And that was nice. And it simply saved going. However now the track has transcended, significantly ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’, and it is develop into… It is virtually a folks track. Not prefer it’s acoustic, however folks within the sense that it simply is a staple. And so it is now taken a lifetime of its personal, so it is not even a retro factor anymore. It simply retains popping up. So that you get a film like ‘Prepared Participant One’, Steven Spielberg‘s film, and there it’s in all its glory. I am, like, ‘Thanks, God.'”

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “Keep Hungry” had been the largest hit single and album, respectively, in TWISTED SISTER‘s profession. Snider stated “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is now a part of America’s cultural material. “[It has proven] itself to be a folks track,” he stated. “It was simply in that Steven Spielberg film, ‘Prepared Participant One’; it was the finale of that film. Right here, all these years later, the large finale of Steven Spielberg‘s huge film, and the blokes holds up a boombox, and your complete battle scene is ready to ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’.”

In a 2018 interview with SiriusXM‘s Eddie Trunk, Snider stated that he’s now glad he did not acquired a proposal for the catalog a few a long time in the past when he actually wanted the cash. “I bottomed out within the ’90s; I used to be useless broke,” he stated. “If I had been made a proposal for something, for nothing, I might have offered. [But] there was zero curiosity — zero. [That stuff was thought of as] buried and over. Nobody noticed it coming again. Steel was a unclean phrase. You could not contact my catalog with a 10-foot pole — fortunately, as a result of I might have [done it for] pennies [on the dollar]. As a result of I used to be broke.”

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” has been utilized in commercials for resort chain Prolonged Keep America, Claritin, Walmart, Stanley Steamer and Yaz contraception.

The track’s lyrics say partially “Oh you are so condescending/Your gall isn’t ending/We do not need nothin’/Not a factor from you.”

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” was first launched as a single (with B-side track “You Cannot Cease Rock ‘N’ Roll”) on April 27, 1984. The “Keep Hungry” album was launched two weeks later, on Might 10, 1984. The one made #21 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart, making it TWISTED SISTER‘s solely High 40 single, and the track was ranked #47 on VH1‘s “100 Biggest ’80s Songs”.

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” was written solely by Snider. As influences for the track, he beforehand cited the glam rock band SLADE, the punk band SEX PISTOLS, and the Christmas carol “O Come, All Ye Devoted”.