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"We Didn't Start the Fire", like Billy Joel's original version released in 1989, is a catalog of major events in world history through a certain time period. Joel's original mainly centers around the events during and surrounding the Cold War, and Fall Out Boy's version continues where Joel's ends, covering the events from 1989 to 2023.
Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn't Start the Fire” remakes Joel’s boomer-centric song with millennial/Gen Z-targeted lyrics about notable pop-culture events that took place between 1989 and 2023.
"We Didn't Start the Fire", particularly in the 21st century, has become the basis of many pop culture parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various television shows, advertisements, and comedic productions. Despite its early success, Joel later noted his dislike of the song musically, and it was critically panned as one of his worst by ...
Fall Out Boy put a modern twist on a classic rock hit by updating the lyrics to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” more than 30 years after its 1989 release.. The new version, which ...
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a 1989 hit single by American musician Billy Joel in which the lyrics tell the history of the United States from 1949 to 1989 through a series of cultural references. [1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6]
Fall Out Boy's cover of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' mentions George Floyd, 'Stranger Things' and Elon Musk. Fans said the choices were 'unhinged.'
A preview of the video was released on AbsolutePunk.net the week earlier. [7] The title of the music video, "A Weekend at Pete Rose's," is a reference to the 1989 dark comedy Weekend at Bernie's and former Major League Baseball player Pete Rose. The entirety of the music video was shot in the beachfront city Santa Monica, California.
Fall Out Boy has taken Billy Joel’s anthem “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and updated it in a new cover to break down some of the biggest moments from 1989 to 2023.