Motley Crue Call Out Cancel Culture in New Song ‘Cancelled’

Motley Crue have released the title track to their new Cancelled EP and you can hear the song and read the lyrics below.

It’s the third and final song to be released from the band’s first collection of new music since the departure of founding guitarist Mick Mars, following “Dogs of War” and a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right.”

“Cancelled” sticks closer to the Motley Crue’s classic sound than the previous two songs, with a strutting guitar riff and drum beat that would sound right at home on 1987’s Girls, Girls, Girls. “Woke up in the morning, just got cancelled,” Vince Neil sings. “Daily Mail is such a handful / Take a shot, throw a hand grenade / Monkeys on the internet got it made / ….Speak your mind you might get cancelled / Call me trash, burn down my castle.” 

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Tommy Lee told Bill Maher about the inspiration behind the new song last year. “There was this article that was like, ‘How did Motley Crue ever not get cancelled?” And we were like, ‘Fuck, we got to write a song about that because we didn’t ever get it,” the drummer explained on the Club Random podcast. “We snuck in under whatever threshold, wherever that was, where we got away with fucking murder.”

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Motley Crue, “Cancelled” Lyrics

Woke up in the morning, you just got cancelled
Daily Mail is such a handful
Take a shot, throw a hand grenade
Monkeys in the internet got it made
Watch your words, good Lord, got cancelled
Riot in the capital, press in a grapple
TikTok videos smell like landfill
Watch your ass, you might get cancelled

Everybody wake up, wake up
Everybody shut up, shut up
Everybody stand up, stand up
Bang your head against a motherfuckin’ wall

I won’t crawl (I, I)
Will you love me when I fall down? (Fall, fall)
Goodbye
Will you love me when I die?

Speak your mind, you might get cancelled
Call me trash, burn down my castle
Take a shot, it’s a masquerade
Diggin’ up my dirt on your woke crusade
Supermodel sandwich, selfie in the backseat
She said yes then they arrest me
Lock me up, put me in shackles
Watch your ass, you might get cancelled

Everybody wake up, wake up
Everybody shut up, shut up
Everybody stand up, stand up
Bang your head against a motherfuckin’ wall

I won’t crawl (I, I)
Will you love me when I fall down? (Fall, fall)
Goodbye
Will you love me when I die?

Everybody wake up, wake up
Everybody shut up, shut up
Everybody stand up, stand up
Bang your head against a motherfuckin’ wall

I won’t crawl (I, I)
Will you love me when I fall down? (Fall, fall)
Goodbye
Will you love me when I die?

Everybody wants to make you
Build you up and break you down
Everybody loves to hate you
Will you love me when I fall down?
Everybody wants to, wants to
Everyone will break you down
Everybody loves to hate you
Will you love me when I die?
(Wake up, shut up, stand up)
Will you love me when I die?
(Wake up, shut up, stand up)
Will you love me when I die?
(Wake up, shut up, stand up)

I won’t crawl
Will you love me when I fall down?
Goodbye
Will you love me when I

lyrics via genius

Motley Crue, “Cancelled”