No Happily Ever Afters

"No Happily Ever Afters"is a song and tenth single by the Alternative Pop Rock band The New Romantic Devils, written by Rachel Monroe, Keith Hudson, Ed Anziotti, and Archie Monroe. It appears on the album The Devil You Know.
== Contents ==
* 1Concept
* 2History
* 3Composition
* 6Personnel
== Concept[edit] ==
The song is written from the narrative point of view of "The Band", alienated and bitter, during a long hallucination in which they turn a concert audience into an angry mob to fight their demons.
== History[edit] ==
The music was solely written by Archie Monroe and the lyrics were written by Keith Hudson and Rachel Monroe. Rachel provides the vocals. The first version of the song had music written by Anziotti , with the lyrics by Keith and Rachel but was incomplete and scrapped in favour of Archies music during the recording of the band demos. After more recording sessions, Archie and Ed took the two musical compositions and merged into what would become the final song.
As with a few other songs written during these sessions, No Happily Ever After has its roots in Archie's first solo album. "TKC324" especially in the song "Happy" can be seen as this song's precursor. 
== Composition[edit] ==
The guitar intro begins with an orchestral set of strings dampened with left-hand muting, before settling on an open D string dampened by palm muting. , the muted D is treated with a specific delay setting, providing three to four loud but gradually decaying repeats, one dotted-eighth note apart, with the result that simply playing quarter notes (at 116 beats per minute) will produce a strict rhythm of one eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes, with rhythmic echoes overlapping. Over this pedal tone of Archie plays descending triads in D major (mostly D, A, and G), down to the open chord position (a quieter, second overdubbed guitar plays open chords only). Some of the guitar tracks are also treated with a heavy flanging effect.
The verses are in E minor, with pedal tones of the guitar's open E, B, and G strings (a full E minor triad) ringing out over a sequence of power chords, resulting in the chords E minor, Fmaj7sus2(♯11), C major seventh, and Bsus4(add♭6). Providing contrast, another guitar, equally treated with delay, plays a low-pitched riff on the roots and minor sevenths of each chord, although the E♭ (minor seventh of F) and B♭ (minor seventh of C) do not match the sustaining open E and B strings an octave above.
Aside from the added tones in each chord, the basic verse sequence of E minor, F major, E minor, C major, and B major is reprised later in "Then There were None",
== Personnel[edit] ==
Archie Monroe-Lead guitar and Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Keith Hudson- Drums and Vocals
Rachel Monroe- Lead Vocals and Piano, and acoustic guitar
John Taylor Dubach- Bass, Rhythm guitar, drums and vocals
Ed Anziotti- Lead and Rhythm guitar
Peyton Reed- Synth, keys, bass, and vocals
additional musicians
Johnny Natchez-guitars and mandolin
Allen Powhaten- drums and percussion
James Edgewood- Guitars and piano
Atom- engineer
Atom-mastering
Freddy Spencer-Production