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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
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

draft: false

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**FEiN** single (**2017**, ℗ Tiny Giant), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. Mixed and mastered by **[Frank Rosato](/with/frank-rosato/)**. Post-*Little Homes* 2017 cluster with [*LOVED*](/songs/loved/), [*Fear*](/songs/fear/), [*P.A.R.T.S.*](/songs/p-a-r-t-s/), and [*All Mine*](/songs/all-mine/). [Glamglare](https://www.glamglare.com/music/song-pick-fein-its-alright/) 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](https://freshbeats365.com/2017/02/18/listen-fein-its-alright-review/) (**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](https://freshbeats365.com/2017/01/30/fein-mike-funk-the-disco-listen/) — while the outfit had been more tongue-in-cheek about sadder tones, *It's Alright* brings them to the fore after [*The Disco*](/songs/the-disco-feat-mike-funk/)'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*](/songs/american-man/) and [*LOVED*](/songs/loved/), but the subject here is political feeling as product. It pairs with [*#Grownupz*](/songs/grownupz/) (permission to stay a child) and [*Stupid Forever*](/songs/stupid-forever/) (permission to feel stupid): FEiN songs that validate the feeling while side-eyeing who profits from it.

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