"We're Not Gonna Take It" is a song by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister from their album Stay Hungry.

As influences for the song, he cites the glam rock band Slade and the Christmas carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful".

Cash Box said the song has "glaring lead vocals", "sneering lyrics", "heavy metal skill and...a refreshing dose of humor".

Snider sings to the other children at the dinner table, who turn into the rest of the band, and they wreak havoc on the family.

German pop punk band Donots released a cover in 2002 which went Top 40 in Germany, reaching 33 in the Singles Chart.

A cover version by Bif Naked was used in the film Ready to Rumble, which became David Arquette's entrance theme while he appeared on WCW programing.

In 2016, Dee Snider gave magician Criss Angel the rights to use the song as an "anthem" for his HELP (Heal Every Life Possible) charity.

"[13] Snider appeared in a video of a stripped down acoustic version for the charity, recorded in the desert outside Las Vegas and featuring children in hospital and a young woman shaving her head to symbolize fighting cancer.

[25] Palmer disputed Twisted Sister's claim that they have any copyright over the portion of the song used in the advertisements, as he composed the lyrics and the melody was derived from "O Come, All Ye Faithful".

[27] On August 26, 2022, in response to use of the song by far-right activists, Snider tweeted: "ATTENTION QANON, MAGAT FASCISTS: Every time you sing 'We're Not Gonna Take It' remember it was written by a cross-dressing, libtard, tree hugging half-Jew who HATES everything you stand for.

"[28] In 1985, non-profit United Way used snippets of the song and its music video to promote a program entitled "Changing the American Family".

This was used as evidence during Snider's Senate hearing to indicate that the song was not violent or obscene, since United Way used "the video's introduction with the demanding father" as a "light-hearted way of talking about communication with teenagers".

[33] In November 2023, when asked after the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel whether he was okay with Israeli soldiers using his band's "We're Not Gonna Take It" as a battle cry, Snider replied: [34][35][36] Oh, hell yeah.