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It's Alright
Metadata
- title
- It's Alright
- meaning
- FEiN 2017 satire: savior pitch to the betrayed: it's alright to feel this way, feel betrayed; patriots sing along, what could go wrong.
- year
- 2017
- release
- It's Alright
- releaseType
- single
- artist
- FEiN
- artistId
- #fein
- coWriters
- Brandon Michael Woodward
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Produced and recorded at Tiny Giant Recording. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/3gIeas5bwtUn6ab8j1fjaO
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/its-alright/1202428287?i=1202428536
- press
- outlet
- Glamglare — It's Alright Song Pick
- url
- https://www.glamglare.com/music/song-pick-fein-its-alright/
- outlet
- Fresh Beats 365 — It's Alright review
- url
- https://freshbeats365.com/2017/02/18/listen-fein-its-alright-review/
- themes
- FEiN
- satire
- politics
- 2017
- anthem
- isrc
- TCACX1715269
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
You look like you could use some saving my son Bet it hurt when they gave your livelihood to someone Am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong I felt the fear that I can see in your eyes Give me ten minutes and I'll turn that fear into fire Have you heard? I'll tell you his words It's alright It's alright to feel this way It's alright It's alright to feel betrayed Everyone's thinking it You look so manly with that pride in your step Is it just me or is it time to say what we meant All along? Tell me I'm wrong There is a place that you and I will be heard All my fair friends and patriots will share in the word Sing along What could go wrong? It's alright It's alright to feel this way It's alright It's alright to feel betrayed Everyone's thinking it
Content
FEiN single (2017, ℗ Tiny Giant), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato. Post-Little Homes 2017 cluster with LOVED, Fear, P.A.R.T.S., and All Mine. Glamglare called it affirmative despite moodier undertones, a song that begins on a quieter more restrained note, picking up instruments and sounds along the way and ending with a grande finale. Fresh Beats 365 (Feb 18, 2017, Tom Roden): For the second month in a row, FEiN has demonstrated that it is a musical force to be reckoned with — following the Jan 30, 2017 The Disco review — while the outfit had been more tongue-in-cheek about sadder tones, It's Alright brings them to the fore after The Disco's upbeat funk; arguably the outfit's most melancholy song, yet one of the most rousing alternative tracks of 2017 to date. Roden read betrayal and insistently sour tonality beneath the usual charming deliveries and hypnotic vocalwork — an attempt to ease the world's sadness while feigning mastery of your own.
A demagogue's recruitment pitch that opens on victimhood (you look like you could use some saving my son) before the conversion: give me ten minutes and I'll turn that fear into fire. The chorus isn't comfort, it's license. You're allowed your grievance because everyone's thinking it.
By the second verse the mask slips, the unsayable made sayable (is it time to say what we meant all along?), and the rally becomes the trap: sing along / what could go wrong?. Same FEiN theatrical-pop register as American Man and LOVED, but the subject here is political feeling as product. It pairs with #Grownupz (permission to stay a child) and Stupid Forever (permission to feel stupid): FEiN songs that validate the feeling while side-eyeing who profits from it.