we didn't start the fire (fall out boys, covering newsworthy events from 1989 - 2023)

[orleans]

remade from the billy joel song
heard it on the radio yesterday (for the first time)

snip of lyrics

Trump gets impeached twice, Polar bears got no ice
Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K
Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift
Stranger Things, Tiger King, Ever Given, Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it

Sandy Hook, Columbine, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice
ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzō Abe blown away
Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid
Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena
Oh-oh-oh, Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV
SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught
Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99
Keaton, Batman, Bush v. Gore, I can't take it anymore
snip
Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid
Jeff Bezos, climate change, white rhino goes extinct
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens
Mars rover, Avatar, self-driving electric cars
SSRI's, Prince and The Queen die
World trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?
-more-

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. I wish they had done it chronologically like in the original.

Not a huge fan of Fall Out Boy but they did an okay job on the music.

But why the hell did they jump around chronologically whereas the original took you through the decades?

Also, "We Didn't Start the Fire" is my favorite Joel, and I don't care what anyone else thinks. (Including Billy Joel).

[orleans]

2. chronologically would have been better imo.

i don't have a favorite song by him but i always loved these:

new york state of mind
&
just the way you are (maybe b/c my mom loved that song so -- ?)