Why Should I Go (from Queen Of The Night)

Why Should I Go is a 3:34 pop-musical song in F major at 99 BPM, sung by a three-part female vocal trio, from Paul Lorenz's musical Queen Of The Night — an English retelling of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Driving, upbeat and comic, it is built for needle-drop, montage and title-sequence use in film, ads and social.

The scene behind the song

Scene One. Prince Tamino, hunted by a monster, is overcome with fear and collapses unconscious. At the last moment the Queen of the Night's three ladies arrive, kill the beast with their lances — and then catch sight of the beautiful young man lying asleep at their feet. What follows is not a love song but an argument: not one of the three will leave the other two alone with him. “Why should I go? No, no, no!” The music carries that comedy — flirtation, rivalry and mock outrage over an insistent pop-rock pulse — until duty wins, the Queen's command is obeyed, and the same melody turns into a genuine farewell.

What does it sound like?

A straight-ahead band number rather than an orchestral cue: drum kit, electric bass, twin electric guitars, piano, brass and sustained strings under three female voices that trade solo lines before locking into close three-part harmony. The full band is in by 0:36 and never really lets go — short stop-time breaks at 1:33, 1:42, 1:56, 2:18, 2:24 and 2:57 punch the arrangement open and drop it straight back in. Energy sits at 8/10: bright, forward and relentlessly upbeat, carrying a lyric far more mischievous than the major key first suggests.

Track specification

Key	F major
Tempo	99 BPM
Duration	3:34
Vocals	Three-part female vocal trio, English lyrics
Instrumentation	Drum kit, electric bass, electric guitars, piano, brass and horns, strings
Genre & mood	Pop — driving, upbeat, romantic, comic
From	Queen Of The Night, Scene One (the Three Ladies' trio)
Music	Paul Lorenz
Libretto	English text after Emanuel Schikaneder's Die Zauberflöte (1791)
Delivery	44.1 kHz WAV
ISRC	ATL332607001
ISWC	T3265019607

What can you use it for?

Because this is a lyric song in English, it works as source music and needle-drop rather than as underscore beneath dialogue. It earns its place where a scene can hand the floor to the song:

• Musical-theatre, stage, school and amateur productions
• Opening title sequences and end-credit songs
• Romantic-comedy and ensemble scenes
• Trailer, teaser and campaign cutdowns
• YouTube, Reels and TikTok edits
• Wedding, celebration and event films
• Dance, cheer and choreography pieces
• Showreels, brand films and live-event walk-ins

Licence and delivery

Delivered as a studio-mastered 44.1 kHz WAV. A single Artyfile Basic licence (€29.90, one time) covers worldwide sync use across film, YouTube, broadcast, social media and podcasts — no subscription and no recurring fees. Collectors can instead take an Artyfile Limited Edition share: a numbered 1% stake in this master recording at €69.90, strictly 20 shares, entered in the Artyfile ownership register and carrying a share of what the master earns — royalties depend on actual usage, are not guaranteed and may be zero.

The music is original to Paul Lorenz and its rights are administered directly by Artyfile, so sync and master rights clear in a single transaction with no additional collection-society fee on the licence itself. Explore Limited Edition ownership →