Why we chose the Track 'Fight Back'

We decided to use the track 'Fight Back feat.Barnaby Raine' because we felt the song had real meaning and we could create an effective music video around this. Fold produce their songs so that they collaborate speeches with music, including speakers such as Martin Luther King and Barack Obama.

The speech used in Fold's track 'Fight Back' is spoken by a young 15 year old, Jewish student from North London named Barnaby Raine. His speech focuses on the student protests that occurred in London a few years ago. From listening to this speech I managed to learn a number of different things; how blatantly students were being cheated and robbed of a future in the name of so called austerity, how willing the public was by and large to accept this, how heavy handed the police tactics (e.g kettling) were and perhaps most importantly the extent to which the media glossed over the heavy handed actions of the police while casting the students in an unjustly violent light without fairly presenting their case. I felt the speech used in 'Fight Back' really captured the zeitgeist and exposed some important truths at the time of the student protests in an unusually concise and rousing manner. Due to the speech used in the track we are able to create a music video with real meaning and our able to relate to a young demographic that may have been affected or were even part of the student protests. Although the speech being the main part of the track there is also an electronic genre of music used which stays pretty much in monotone the whole way through therefore meaning it doesn't drown out or outshine the speech, the music is still catchy however and has a good beat and flow to it.

Fold have got in touch with me and stated that through their making of the track they wanted to demonstrate both their solidarity with the students at the time and to remind everyone that when our rights are being threatened we music stand up and fight back if we wish to preserve them. They believe there aren't enough Barnaby Raine's out there that speak out and make a difference.




This is the type of image we wanted to display in our music video.

Fold / Fight Back (featuring Barnaby Raine)

This is our chosen track for our Music Video.



LYRICS


We're gonna stand up and we're gonna fight back, 


'fight back' x22,


I was with thousands and thousands of school students who'd come down, who'd never been at a protest before, who'd never joined a political party or been involved in any political movement before, we didn't have any economic knowledge or political degrees but they were there because they believed in something bigger, and they were there because they knew there weren't a million choices, there were two choices, either they laid down and took whatever the government through at them or they stood up and fought back and so those school students who'd never been involved in anything before, stood up and fought back.


'Back' x8,


The word went round as we were sitting cuddling round the fire sharing out the food we had, we said were not bad, we know that they don't think we're a danger to the public, we're 15 years old, there's people here as young as 13 years old, they know we're not going to start a riot, they think if they keep blocking us out, we're not gonna hold a demonstration ever again, well let the word go out for today people said, let the word go out about next Tuesday, let the word go about next week and next month and next year that they can't stop us demonstrating, they can't stop us fighting back and all the amount they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets and we will always be there to demonstrate, we will always be there to 'Fight' x9.


People who had always thought that Police were just those people at the other end of a telephone line to help if there was a burglary, people who had always thought that the media were just those friendly newspaper men  who were to give them that unbalanced picture of the fact, people learnt a lot as they huddled round fires and then emerge from that kettle to see headlines like 'VANDALS' on the evening standard that afternoon, people learnt a lot when that standard was left in the middle of the road so the police could come and tow it away and show the whole public look what vandals these people are, so the message that goes out is very clear, we are no longer that generation that doesn't care, we are not longer that generation that is prepared to sit back and take whatever they give us, we are now the generation at the heart of the fight back, we are now the generation that will stand with everyone that's fighting back, we hope your show solidarity with us and send a strong message to this government that they can't throw their cuts at us, we're gonna stand up and we're gonna fight back x40 


We're gonna stand up and 

fight back x40


'Instrumental'


We're gonna stand up and fight back.