One group are fighting for their lives against oppression and tyranny for real. And I came back a couple of hours later and opened up my Twitter feed, and it exploded, and I said: "Whoa!" I didn't realize I sort of hit the nail on the head. I was processing it and I was about to head out the door to get Saturday-morning bagels for my family, and I said, you know: This is why.Īnd I wrote it down. It was designed to be a song where people can read their personal strife and struggle, whether it's your teachers or your parents or your government or an invasion - whatever.īut then I started to get some people asking me, "Well, how can you support that, but you know, you denounced the anti-maskers?" Why was it important for you to endorse We're Not Gonna Take It for the Ukrainian people? Snider spoke to As It Happens guest host Helen Mann about why he's glad Ukrainians have found inspiration in his music as they fight a Russian invasion. "One use is for a righteous battle against oppression the other is infantile feet stomping against an inconvenience," the Los Angeles-based '80s hair metal star, said Sunday in a tweet that's been re-posted more than 50,000 times.
When Dee Snider found out that some Ukrainians are using a song he wrote as a resistance anthem, he offered his full endorsement.īut the Twisted Twister frontman, whose grandfather was Ukrainian, didn't have anything nice to say about those who invoke We're Not Gonna Take It to protest mandatory masking and other pandemic health measures.