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title: "LOVED"

meaning: "FEiN generational satire: boomer parent vs millennial kid, participation trophies, follow your passion, you are loved / were you too: the duo's biggest single."

year: 2017
release: "LOVED"
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/track/07ivDiCg2mWDiwV4nG8zyC"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/loved/1212050915?i=1212051101"

press:
  - outlet: "FEiN — LOVED (SoundCloud)"
    url: "https://soundcloud.com/feinmusic/loved"
    desc: "Mar 10, 2017 upload · 204 comments · ~460k plays on SoundCloud."
  - outlet: "[Alderheart AU PMV] you were loved (Warrior Cats)"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG4SGihUILc"
  - outlet: "Prince Arctic // WoF PMV // Loved (Wings of Fire)"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTM19b7bAjE"
  - outlet: "loved (crowfeather pmv) (Warrior Cats)"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ufuyFgvik"
  - outlet: "YouTube search: LOVED FEiN (PMV/AMV lane)"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=LOVED+FEIN"

themes: ["FEiN", "satire", "generational", "parenting", "2017", "viral", "YouTube", "PMV", "Warrior Cats", "Wings of Fire"]

isrc: TCACY1730809
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  You're an entitled piece of shit
  You're just a pot smoking good for nothing
  Kids today, yeah, they don't want to work
  I made mistakes, I'll admit
  I gave you participation trophies

  Maybe I'm to blame, maybe I'm not
  All the books I read proclaimed
  That they had cracked the secret
  Of instructing me on how to raise a man

  And yet a quarter century elapsed
  And what do you have you to show for it
  You play with the piano while I work

  Ooh
  You are loved
  Ooh
  Were you too

  Loved
  Loved
  Loved
  Loved

  Optimistic son of a bitch
  You're just a molly rolling good for nothing
  Kids today, yeah, they don't wanna work
  You could've been an engineer

  Instead, I told you do whatever makes you happy
  And you'll never truly work
  Several lines of credit later
  University gave you a paper

  Then they sent you back to me
  I guess retirement will have to wait
  I'll die on my feet before
  I live to see you get your ass to work

  Ooh
  You are loved
  Ooh
  Were you too

  Loved
  Loved
  Loved
  Loved

  Loved
  Loved
  Loved
  Loved

  La-la-la-la-la-loved
  La-la-la-la-la-loved

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**FEiN** single (**March 10, 2017**, ℗ Tiny Giant), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. Mixed and mastered by **[Frank Rosato](/with/frank-rosato/)** at Tiny Giant Recording. Not on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (2016); post-LP 2017 cluster with [*It's Alright*](/songs/its-alright/), [*Fear*](/songs/fear/), [*P.A.R.T.S.*](/songs/p-a-r-t-s/), and [*All Mine*](/songs/all-mine/). Became the duo's **biggest track**: [~9M Spotify streams](https://open.spotify.com/track/07ivDiCg2mWDiwV4nG8zyC), ahead of [*#Grownupz*](/songs/grownupz/) (viral-50 moment, ~500k+ across services per [BMI](https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/indie_spotlight_fein)) and every other FEiN release on the profile. The [SoundCloud upload](https://soundcloud.com/feinmusic/loved) still carries a long comment thread — **204 comments**, ~460k plays, ~7.7k likes — generational satire that people actually argued about in the replies. Often styled **LOVED** all caps.

**Second life:** **LOVED** developed a **second life in YouTube fan-animation culture**, especially **Wings of Fire** and **Warrior Cats** PMV/AMV circles, where several fan videos using the song reached **six-figure view counts** — a real audience path, not trivia. Strongest artifacts: [**[Alderheart AU PMV] you were loved**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG4SGihUILc) (Warrior Cats Alderheart AU; description credits *Song: Loved - FEiN*; ~626k views) · [**Prince Arctic // WoF PMV // Loved**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTM19b7bAjE) (Wings of Fire; ~602k views) · [**loved (crowfeather pmv)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ufuyFgvik) (Warrior Cats Crowfeather; ~169k views). Listener comments on LOVED aggregations report discovering the track through **WoF PMVs** and **Warrior Cats animated music videos** (*same*, *been in my favorites since the warrior cats vid*). Browse the lane: [YouTube search — LOVED FEiN](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=LOVED+FEIN).

Two voices, one argument: a boomer parent's contempt against a millennial kid's counter-blame. It's the same *Little Homes* social satire stripped of the sixteen-song concept frame, and the most legible FEiN song because everyone recognizes the fight. The parent admits to *participation trophies*, then offloads the failure onto the parenting-industrial complex (*all the books I read proclaimed that they had cracked the secret*); the kid names the boomerang right back, *I told you do whatever makes you happy / and you'll never truly work*.

The hook is the trap. *You are loved / were you too*, affirmation curdling into accusation. By the second chorus *loved* stacks into *la-la-la-la-la-loved*, nursery-rhyme sarcasm wearing the word out until it means nothing, like a trophy.

Same DNA as [*#Grownupz*](/songs/grownupz/) (rich kid, never grow up), [*American Man*](/songs/american-man/) (national male script), and [*Goodness Gracious*](/songs/goodness-gracious/) (household performance). The difference is reach: LOVED broke out of the theater into the algorithm (~9M Spotify) and later into **fan-animation PMV culture** on YouTube — nothing else in the FEiN catalog matches that combined footprint. It pairs with later Walton/Woodward singles [*Stupid Forever*](/songs/stupid-forever/) and [*Friend*](/songs/friend/).

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