10 Musicians Who Hate Their Own Songs

10. The Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)

A couple of years ago, The Beastie Boys released a documentary called Beastie Boys Story, and one of the things that got mentioned there is how much the rap group hate their first big hit song.

(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) was the fourth single to be released from their classic 1986 debut album License to Ill, and it was really the first track to get them significant exposure on MTV and the entry point to the group's music for a lot of people.

The song was written as a sarcastic parody of the partying lifestyle and of songs that celebrate it, but it got terribly misinterpreted and adopted as an anthem by the very people it was supposed to be mocking.

"The only thing that upsets me", said Mike D, "is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to Fight for Your Right who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them."

You could say that Fight for Your Right became the very thing it swore to destroy.