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We’ve all heard horror stories about labels interfering with a band’s creative vision, but it’s rarely been documented as snappily as this. I Fight Dragons frontman Brian Mazzaferri recounts, with the assistance of SNES score counters, the laborious process of endlessly rewriting a song that their label, Atlantic, was sure would be a hit. They wrote over eighteen versions before giving up – even getting Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo wasn’t enough to win Atlantic over. Unsurprisingly, the relationship between band and label has now ended…