Despite reclaiming some glory on this year's So Much (for) Stardust and being announced as featured guests on Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Fall Out Boy are apparently still really wanting to cling to relevancy here. And to do that, you need to be topical — so they've released a cover of Billy Joel's inimitable "We Didn't Start the Fire."
But wait, there's more: the band have updated Joel's lyrics, instead running through a laundry list of "newsworthy items" from between the years of 1989, when the song was originally released, and 2023. Again, please note that the band has described the events they're name-dropping as "newsworthy items," which is the only way you could lump together the Taylor Swift and Kanye West feud and the Columbine High School massacre, semantically speaking.
It kind of sounds like the Fairly OddParents theme song meets the 1975's "Love It If We Made It" over vaguely pop-punk instrumentation. We live in a society.
Listen below with a handy lyric video to really take in this rewrite.
But wait, there's more: the band have updated Joel's lyrics, instead running through a laundry list of "newsworthy items" from between the years of 1989, when the song was originally released, and 2023. Again, please note that the band has described the events they're name-dropping as "newsworthy items," which is the only way you could lump together the Taylor Swift and Kanye West feud and the Columbine High School massacre, semantically speaking.
It kind of sounds like the Fairly OddParents theme song meets the 1975's "Love It If We Made It" over vaguely pop-punk instrumentation. We live in a society.
Listen below with a handy lyric video to really take in this rewrite.
