No Fear

Album: Popular Monster (2024)
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Songfacts®:

  • "No Fear" is a punchy rap-rock anthem where Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke takes aim at critics and rival musicians while addressing hot-button topics like cancel culture, artistic authenticity, and his own polarizing reputation.
  • Radke calls out those he feels are imitating his style. His stance is clear: he's fine with others finding inspiration from his work, but blatant copying? That's another story.

    I don't mind when a band sees another success and gets inspired
    It's the copying I cannot respect
    And you can go to my label, my director, my producer
    But you'll never get that magic at the level I do it


    While Radke doesn't name names in "No Fear," his feud with Motionless In White in September 2023 over their "Werewolf" video echoes the accusations he levels in the song. Radke, who had his own werewolf transformation in Falling In Reverse's 2019 "Popular Monster" video, called out Motionless In White for using a similar scene and even shared a concert promo image with the caption, "I'm a popular popular biter."

    Fans, quick to note that werewolves are hardly unique in rock and metal, pushed back, but Radke argued that it wasn't the werewolf itself that bothered him, it was the timing and the style. According to Radke, Motionless In White insisted on using a werewolf transformation despite being informed that he'd done it first, which to him felt like more than a coincidence.

    "Bro it's the timing," he tweeted. "Popular Monster, I turn into a werewolf; they went to the video director I use because of my video."
  • Radke aims at another musician known for switching between rock and rap. The thinly veiled jab may reference Attila's Fronzak, who has dabbled in both genres.

    You went from rock to rap, but I did that first
    You went from rap back to rock 'cause the rap didn't work, that's worse
    You're acting like you never heard of me, homie
    But everybody that I know, truly knows you're baloney
    And people throwin' accusations at me, knowin' it's phony


    There's a history of tension between Radke and Fronzak. In 2013, Fronzak released a song called "Callout" that included attacks on various musicians, including the Falling In Reverse frontman.
  • Radke co-wrote and co-produced "No Fear" with longtime collaborator Tyler "Myth" Smyth, bringing in producer NetuH to add a dark trap beat for the song's outro. That outro is a homage to hip-hop duo $uicideboy$, incorporating chopped and screwed techniques that slow down and distort the vocals for a haunting, repetitive finish. This marks a first for Falling In Reverse, who have never before incorporated chopped and screwed elements.

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