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    "comment": "Of this track, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne explains, \"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.\"\n\nThe melody is very similar to \"Father And Son\" by Cat Stevens. The Flaming Lips agreed to share the song's royalties with Stevens.\n\nThe 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?'\"\n\nStevens 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.\n\n\"Fight Test\" was the theme song for the MTV cartoon 3 South, which ran for one season in 2002. https://tinyurl.com/rumtw3nn",
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