2002Released
4:16

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Interesting facts and trivia about Fight Test. By Songfacts®.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne explained the song's meaning in the album's liner notes: "The subject of the song is the singer's regret about taking the attitude of 'not fighting' to an extreme - and by the end of the song realizes he's made a mistake and sometimes a person has no choice - as unpleasant as it may be... To surrender to every conflict without a challenge, he finds, is worse than getting beat up."

The melody is very similar to "Father And Son" by Cat Stevens. The Flaming Lips agreed to share the song's royalties with Stevens. The melodic similarity to "Father and Son" wasn't intentional. "We thought it was the greatest thing ever to finally be involved in a plagiarism claim," Wayne Coyne told Uncut magazine. "We thought, 'We're legit! A real songwriter thinks it matters! It made the song more interesting. People probably listened to it five or six more times, just to be like, 'Does it really sound like that?'" Stevens didn't ask for much, just a quarter of the song's royalties. "We were like, 'You want a quarter of one song on a Flaming Lips album - do you know what this is? This isn't anything!,'" Coyne remarked.

This was the theme song for the MTV cartoon 3 South, which ran for one season in 2002.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Fight Test.
AKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
82BPM

Album

The album Fight Test is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Fight Test.
Warner Records
© 2002 Warner Records Inc.
℗ 2002 Warner Records Inc.

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