Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Lyric Video)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed the world forever. So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years- we felt like a little system update might be fun. Hope you like our take on it…
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LYRICS
Captain Planet
Arab Spring
LA Riots Rodney King
Deep fakes
Earthquakes
Iceland volcano
Oklahoma City bomb
Kurt Cobain
Pokémon
Tiger Woods
MySpace
Monsanto GMOs
Harry Potter
Twilight
Michael Jackson dies
Nuclear accident Fukushima Japan
Crimean peninsula
Cambridge analytica
Kim Jong Un
Robert Downey Jr Iron Man
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
More war in Afghanistan
Cubs go all the way again
Obama
Spielberg
Explosion Lebanon
Unabomber
Bobbit, John
Bombing Boston marathon
Balloon Boy
War on terror
Qanon
Trump gets impeached twice
Polar bears got no ice
Fyre fest
Black Parade
Michael Phelps
Y2K
Boris Johnson
Brexit
Kanye West
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
Shinzo Abe blown away
Meghan Markle
George Floyd
Burj Khalifa
Metroid
Fermi paradox
Venus and Serena
Michael Jordan 23
UA-cam killed MTV
Spongebob
Golden State Killer caught
Michael Jordan 45
Woodstock ‘99
Keaton Batman
Bush v Gore
I can’t take it anymore
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
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
S-S-S-R-Is
Prince and the Queen die
World Trade
Second plane
What else do I have to say?
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
#FallOutBoy #WeDidntStartTheFire #billyjoel #Trump #Pokemon #TheBlackParade #MichaelJordan #LebronJames #Kaepernick #JeffBezos #Spongebob #StrangerThings #KanyeWest #TaylorSwift
It is officially someone's artistic responsibility to continue this again in thirty years
Agreed. A song that should live and change forever.
For real though...
I look forward to listening to all 3 versions of I'm lucky enough
Literally was thinking that myself
ever since i first heard we didn't start the fire i was HOPING that someone would make an updated version!
"It was always burning" hits different when it's the second time this song has been done. It's nothing new, but it won't be ending soon
I started the fire
@@merickbindrup
What the hell are you on about? The whole thing is about the fact that “no one started the fire”. It’s about time. Ever since the world came into existence, ever since the entire UNIVERSE came into existence, the fire was always burning. Even after we’re long gone, after the Earth is gone, the fire will still burn. Burn, burn, and burn until there’s nothing left to burn.
@@merickbindrupYou’re most likely a millenial or a gen z’er our generation was failed by the ones before us, its a historical cycle that unfortunately gets worse and worse as technology progresses
@@merickbindrupYou can never take responsibility for something you're born into. It's unnatural.
Oh it’s gonna be out soon, as history begins again
Kinda poetic how the original song mentions Queen Elizabeth starting her reign, while this one mentions her death
That may very well have something to do with their choice to cover this this year instead of waiting until 2029 which would have been another full 40 years like the original.
There are a couple throwback mentions in the update to the original
But no mention of Princess Diana 😔
Much like how this one mentions the rise of marvel via rdj and the next will mention the fall
And they mention how there's still trouble in the Suez.
I honestly really love the idea that every thirty years or so someone just makes another version of this song. That’s outright priceless for future historians, the ability to just find a quick rundown of then modern culture.
@@spartanhawk7637 except, this recreation is a failure to the original song.
@@yupfu9643 it's like... not tho it sounds exactly the same and does exactly what the old song did and exactly what the og artist wanted done with covers
My grandma is a boomer and she was alive during all the events of the first song, and it blows my mind that I was able to live through half of the events listed in this song while she lived through both songs
Thanx. This glamma is now feeling a bit old. 😉
All of this song.
My parents are boomers and I have lived through every single thing in this song.
@@sammfabish5230 Same. I lived through a little of the first one too... Not that I remember any of it, but I was there!!! haha
@@timsawyer9231I was born in October 1989, I missed the cutoff on the first song events by the shortest of margins. The Berlin Wall first got torn down when I was only a couple months old. Billy Joel's last song he ever performs live should be his version of his creation and if it takes two hours to perform that'd be the way to go out. I'm a lifelong Long Islander it's basically NY State law for every resident of Nassau and Suffolk County to be a Billy Joel fan here. FOB did a good job covering this but the original is the best
Definitely bothers me that this isn't ordered chronologically (like Joel's original was), but _"World Trade, second plane - what else do I have to say?"_ is an incredible line to end on.
That said, FOB could have easily borrowed the "wars" rhyme of the '89 ending and closed out theirs with, _"Never ending culture wars, I can't take it anymore."_ I mean. It's right there, guys.
It’s about the rhymes and making it flow
It isn’t history class, it’s music. Sorry
@@kylebogden5365look up the original, it was order by era
@@kylebogden5365 Okay, but Billy Joel managed the exact same thing and almost all of it was chronological. It's possible.
Well are people really trying to hold a light from fall out boy to billy Joel?
Can we please introduce the tradition that, every few decades, someone sums up everything that's happening in the world, with this song
Yes
Yes
The next decade's will just be 3:33 of dead silence.
@@blackswan3585just the occasional scream to break it up
No let’s not please.
"No we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it" - single best update line in my opinion. Anyone reading this don't stop trying, never stop trying.
In combination with Pokémon and Downey Jr. this makes absolutely no sense. You tried to fight you childhood pop culture? WTF. This is so bad.
@@j.m.w.5064 Billy Joel's original one had that, too, though. There were plenty of positive things in that song but the chorus still went "we didn't light it but we tried to fight it." When he wrote it, he was suggesting that his generation didn't start all the negative craziness in the world, but they also didn't do enough to stop it. Fall Out Boy are saying that the next generation aren't to blame, either, and that the fight isn't over.
Lol okay. What are you trying to fight and what are you doing to fight it? Let's hear it.
@@j.m.w.5064 Have you not heard the original song? Billy Joel being a bad and nonsensical songwriter is an interesting take, but you're entitled to your opinion.
But why try to fight Pokémon? Should have referenced DBZ.
I like how in the old version it says: “we tried to fight it” but in this new version it says “we’re TRYING to fight it” that was a nice touch 😌
I've always sang "we're trying to fight it", this is the first I've heard that I got it wrong
Right with you
✊🏼
They are Freemason Jesuit pawns
@landobando4937this was released about three days ago?
I hope this becomes a tradition among the music industry, to make an update to this song every 25 - 30 years or so.
It would be a great Legacy for BIlly Joel, cause i dig the original, and this one.
It is a good way for people to look up events in the previous years. It would also be good for music artists who are interested.
Maybe do versions for events prior to the start of the original song?
YESS!!!
It has already with 2004 , parody of 1985
Shows how ironically how accurate the ending lines are of "But when we are gone, it will still burn on and on" of the original song and this song. Cause the fire just keeps on going.
Which is why in another 30-40 years, we need the third song in this series. The fire won't stop, history won't stop, and we need some way to record all of it and these songs are a fun and great way to do so.
I didn’t get this song until now tbh
Yeah totally true!
If it makes you feel better, birth rates have collapsed. So a few more generations and it can finally be snuffed out
@@canceledlogic7656That ain't how humans are going extinct
2:33 as a Texan, its amazing how us struggling bc temp too low was such a major event it got featured in this song. I am honored.
Edit: ITS HAPPENING AGAIN WHAT 😭
Yea that's so weird how an event that I personally lived thru (with 30 million other ppl obviously) is just in this lyric of this song to be listed as a historical event. heres to hoping this doesn't happen again in 2 months
@@pikiyu Boy do I have some news for you
@ChocolateChara1 yeah you can imagine our collective excitement when we heard it's going to snow this week. remember me when i have to cook leftovers with a blowtorch
@@pikiyu Wish I was lucky enough to get Snow it's just freezing cold
you see this is actually a legal response to burning their records in the “light em’ up” video
Yeah it also shows that this is the best Fall Out Boy song ever
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This comment is doing better then the video lol 😅
100 likes wow
1 hour in and already found what's gonna be the most liked comment..... Nice
I was frozen and in a cube for 34 years. Im glad i am now caught up. Thanks fall out boy.
and they somehow omitted the biggest world event that happen 3 years ago
who thawed you out?
@@warppizza Ironically Canadians.
@@killgoretrout877 and conveniently never mentioned Epstein
I am actually looking forward for a band that hasn't been born yet doing there version covering 2023-2057 events
Billy Joel himself said that the original song was meant to be continued by someone else, as he wrote a song about the important events of his life. He expected someone else to write the update but didnt expect it to take so long. Did he like it? Billy Joel has said he does and is proud someone continued the story of our lives.
You said nothing but lies. You bring shame to your family, acquaintances and anyone who knows you. They all suffer for being connected to you.
@@d3nza482 bro what
@@d3nza482im stealing this comment thanks
@@d3nza482IM SORRY
WHAT?!
@@d3nza482, are you addressing the demons in your head?
Hasn’t gotten old! You have no idea how much I miss the energy of the 80’s. And I was a literal child. I would have had no part of the party scene yet. But things? Really were different. You could feel the fun static in the air. I will not get over how much this cover captures the same energy Joel did. Like you caught the fire in a cup ❤
I feel like the lyrics of this song should get an update every 20-30 years.
With how fast shiz is happening the next update should be 10 years for the next one.
@@jtscott3849fr
Yeah same! I like this version better. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
I agree 100% and this is probably the most creative cover. Instead of just repeating the same lyrics, they updated it.
Imagine...this Song can create History by going on forever and ever with New Versions coming out every 2 decades !! Makes sense to keep it topical as future Generations won't connect with what's recent..
"JFK blown away, What else do i have to say" has to be the most poignant line in the original verson, as well as the most significant tragic event in most people lives of that generation, with 9/11 being my generations. "World Trade, Second plane" sure hit me right in the gut.
I had the same reaction. I heard it on TikTok last night and appreciated it, but watching that line come across the screen this morning made me tear up. I was 7 when that happened and it’s one of the first moments I realized life was not going to be as enjoyable as the grownups tried to tell me it would be. I know most of us can agree there.
I got literal chills. Been a while since that happened.
Yea same, I was boppin hard and that line broke me ☹️❤️
Sandy Hook and Columbine literally sent chills through my body
@@samanthadavis8349 meee toooo 😢
The original by Billy Joel is one of my favourite songs ever. I have been saying for SO many years that someone should do an up-to-date version of it, and I was so happy when I first heard this version! I really hope that Fall Out Boy and Billy Joel perform together someday and sing both versions back to back. Also, I especially love the little homages to the original in the lyrics here - especially "Ever Given Suez" referencing "Trouble in the Suez" - genius!
I'd like to see an extended version of the song, too. 😊😁
I would love to see Fall out boy do a Super Bowl halftime show or Something, and have Joel crash it, do a modern hit, and end with a mashup of both artists versions of not starting thy fire.
I can't remember where I saw this but im pretty sure someone said earlier they were actually performing them together soon (don't hold me to this)
I couldn’t have prayed for someone I love more to update this song. I’ve always loved you! And this is an example why.
At the age of 56 and a lover of the original I have wondered many times how an "updated" version of this would sound. I LOVE IT !!
This song is proof that time doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but often rhymes
Agreed
Literally.
Welp.... with a rhythm of the same beat...
No history does repeat itself because most people are dumb and forget things that happened not too long ago. They don't rhyme they literally just change the name of something and then sell it back to people. For example a viral pneumonia wad renamed H1N1 then SARS & now Covid and the never ending "new" strains lol just like they said it came out of the Wuhan lab and everyone lost their mind people really believed that eating bats would cause a coronavirus? LOL I'm old enough to know that they said someone got bit by a monkey which they said started AIDS now we all know that wasn't true. Some history always repeats itself over and over but because people are ignorant and think they know everything they don't realize we've already been through all this before they're just calling it something different this time
😉
I love how they not only make amazing rock music of their own but also pay tribute to the classics that came before them with things like this and the people they had on albums like Save Rock and Roll. I love your music so much!
“There’s so much to cover, it would almost make more sense just to list everything with zero context”
Billy Joel: “it doesn’t even have to rhyme”
The song doesn't have to rhyme, like poetry doesn't, but it *does* have to scan, as it becomes easier to remember. The beat helps.
The original rhymed, at least sometimes, I'm not sure what you mean? "Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray" That rhymes.
It almost feels like a continuation more than it does a cover. Extremely well done. We Didn't Start the Fire is one on my all-time favorite songs.
This ain't a cover bro. This is a sequel.
@@rymle 0:04 it literally says that it is a cover tho
@@PILOSOPAULI mean, I suppose you could consider it both? Just say it sampled the first, with new lyrics
@@rymle Its a poorly done sequel. The original song was a timeline of events. not just random stuff thrown at the wall
I completely agree! People nitpick things WAY too damn much!
The video really complements with the fast-paced and chaotic music. “World Trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?” Is probably the best ending there could possibly have been. Hell of a song.
Wtc was our own government
You misspelled "tasteless."
tbh the ending had me cackling
Right before that verse I was thinking "they're going to have to mention 9/11....oh there it is"
@@heavydfunk in the original song it says “JFK Blown away”, so it only makes sense.
I'm 42 so born in 1981. Every lyric in this song is my life. I have chills thinking that this all happened and I remember it. From 9/11 to Y2K to Myspace. Wow! Great modern cover Fall Out Boy!
same. 1983.and in south africa for most of it. shitshow. shitshow. jirrrrrr we've been through it.
I'm glad you continued the song for this generations. I hope in thirty years someone else also continues it. Great song, this one and the original.
I'm 44 and I have lived through this entire era of this updated song. It's scary to think back on life since 1989. Nice continuation of a great classic.
Imagine living through both versions.
This version is very much american centered though, and some stuff are not mentionned and should be, like 911 or the terrorist attacks in France
@@ahouais5620911 was mentioned. It was the last lyric before “what else do i have to say”
One thing I appreciate about the new version of we didn’t start the fire is that they changed a part of the chorus. I could wax poetic about what they altogether changed in the song, but to me it’s so meaningful that they changed “no, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it” to “no, we didn’t light it, but we’re trying to fight it”
And maybe that speaks for itself.
You can't "fight" human nature. The original song understood this.
Finally, a Fall Out Boy song that mentions Michael Keaton, SpongeBob, Metroid, Kanye West, Captain Planet, Kurt Cobain, Iron Man and Taylor Swift (and so on and so forth). What a crossover.
With Avengers Endgame we thought we had it all, until Fall Out Boy made the biggest crossover ever, hopefully Nintendo doesn't sue them for mentioning Metroid.
@@ErickVideoGameGuyIf Fall Out Boy gets taken down by Nintendo then Fall Out Boy is canon in Smash.
I mean does anyone remember Nintendo Fusion tours?
Is Metroid reference to the game series? Because that's the first thing I thought of, but felt it would be weird or just my own bias since there were no other game related things mentioned, so just throwing in "Metroid" was surprising 😅
@@shotgunmasterQLpokemon
Hey @ScoutSunset ! Funny seeing my subscribers here hahaha
Those haughty taughty critics can cry all they want but this song is fire and should be updated every couple of decades.
No it’s not, it is awful and you are an npc
I get an emotional and physical response from this cover. It hits harder because I’ve lived through all of these events and people. Great update to the song.
It’s not that serious to be getting an emotional and physical response but it is a cool update
Exactly! I felt the same way. I was a kid when the original came out. The fact that I realize that it’s still burning is kind of surreal.
The only song that needs an update every couple of decades
Yes
Yes
Yes
Maybe someday we won't need a new version of the song (hah I can't even type that without making myself laugh)
@@raysravens52 That would be the day earth ceases to exist.😢😢
As a millennial the first song's theme never really 'clicked'.
I understood the concept - the world keeps turning despite the whole world feeling like it's engulfed in fire, but that's just the way the world is, generation after generation, we didn't start it, and neither did our parents generation.
But it wasn't until right now, today, that this song hit me in a way that the original never could.
I lived through all but a few of these. These are childhood memories, things that are engrained in my memories as watching it happen live. My Homeroom teacher came into the library one day in middle school and abruptly announced "We've just been attacked" and immediately pulled out the TV and turned on the news.
I watched the second plane hit live from my middle school library, Ender's Game in my lap.
I grew up watching Captain Planet, and SpongeBob, and Jordan play for the Bulls, and listening to Jackson stun the world with his pop music.
This summed up the world around my life. And it hits, hard. Because it's been a sh*tshow for most of the time. And it provided a sense of peace and hope in thr future to know that the world's always been on fire like this. This isn't new. And life goes on.
I hope Gen Z / Gen Alpha get their own version in a couple of decades. Because you can't truly feel this song until it echoes your existence.
90s gen and younger will remember the world being stacked against us, economy's unliveable unless you make or break above the cost of living (wherever you are). The government/corpo scene works actively to divide the people for their own profits. Education has failed us, politically right is more important than factual right. People are too sensitive with "its your with us or against" leading to witch hunts. Tolerance weakened people, women asking for equal rights but not equal responsibilities and end up favored more, being born a man in this times is a struggle. Then there's the looming threat if we get to live a normal life tomorrow because the lunatics with power has some nasty toys that broke Tokyo and Nagasaki.
Honestly, this overlaps with a lot of the gen Z experience, too. 9/11 certainly was before my time per se, but hearing of the news of a full on insurrection, or the extension of 2020 spring break for a long time before we moved to online, or so many other things have hit that same way.
This kind of feels shallow...
I was young for 9/11 - still in preschool - but I remember the terror. Not understanding why my mom kept telling me to watch the skies or why she seemed so concerned with the plane hitting that building. I remember the Boston Bombing; a friend from overseas started spamming my phone because he wasn't sure how far Boston was from Long Island or how large the explosion was. I might be on the older side of gen z, but most of this was my lived experience. And it hits.
Me sitting here wondering why it hit so hard and you summed it up perfectly. I heard the original for the first time in like 1st grade, and got the message, but this had me crying.
I LOVE when a Todays artist can Respect and Add Value to an Original song!!!
As a child of the 80's, student of history, who remembers the first Billy Joel song, and saw the planes hit the towers in college. You lads did this song so much justice. You even dug up the not so popular but still impactful moments.
Injustice*
@@finlay4277 *Justice
You can't write '80s properly, though.
@@primmny1107 It's not even in chronological order, and they rhymed George Floyd with Metroid, a game which released before the original song. The writing is lazy and to be honest, shockingly awful
@@finlay4277 I can guarantee if the the Billy Idol version wasn't in order then you wouldn't be bitching.
Honestly, this kinda made me cry..(granted I'm 26 and have no actual connections to the original)..but the change up of the last Line "But when we are gone, it will still burn on and on"... From "Will it still burn on and on?" Was powerful XD
In a sense, the change in the lyrics can be seen as hopeful. After all this chaos, we're still here, and unlike last time, despite it all, we can be fairly sure that in another 30 years, we will be here still.
The original was used a lot in high school history classes as a tool to touch on tons of history topics in the 20th century. Although in the original each verse was decade specific from the 50s - 80s and a heavy emphasis on cold War topics.
The world will always turn on. And life will go on.
47 yo here... The 1st one was a bit too "old" for me when it dropped, but this, I remember all of these.
gonna mke a niqa cry
Didn't know I needed this but I really did. I understand this isn't in chronological order like the original but that doesn't bother me. It makes sense because it just feels like one thing after another in a whirlwind. This is going to be stuck in my head all day now
Plus it connected the parts so they felt like this was the piece that mixed with that
Yes the past few decades are one big blur
The original isn't one hundred percent in chronological order either, just more so than this one.
I always hoped that someone would do an extension to "We Didn't Start the Fire", and when I found out Fall Out Boy did it, I was SO happy.
This song was also incredibly special to me as a kid and its very touching to see a recent take on it, and almost staggering to realize I actually know most of what's being referred to this time around. Thank you for the cover FOB!
One day there will be a playlist with nothing but different versions of this.
fuck that there will be a whole album
with several volumes spanning several millenia
True that. If I don't hear another version of this I'll be upset. The og and this one are so good
A.I will make a million different versions of this and everything else
I can only hope that we haven't all killed each other or the planet in another 30, 60, or 90 years
The fact that everything is out of order and that it bothers so many people is the perfect touch. It correlates to the chaos that everyone has felt during all the various events. This is a perfect cover.
or they just couldn't make it rhyme!
Or they did it on purpose, which is genius.
lol ok dude
Billy Joel made his in order 🤦♂️🤷♂️
@@seekanddowhat Yeah but he also phoned in everything after JFK. Four verses 1949-63, then one for 65-89.
Glad to see someone finally officially recognize Balloon Boy for the threat he is.
I like the lyric change from, “we tried to fight it,” to, “we’re trying to fight it.” We lived and are living through these events, all the while we try to fight it.
you are on youtube
Fight what exactly?
@@jakovasaurthe fire lol
@@jakovasaurthe shiet show left for newer generations
Joel's is a song about past struggles, because young men he met, thought he had such a stress free world stage for his youth. Fight is last tense as it should be. Now you didn't start the fire you will fight it is also appropriate. It's the passing of the baton. Carrying the fight forward. Too many critics. Not enough critical thinking. Billy Joel covered 40 to 80 years?
WHY AM I JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS SONG *NINE* MONTHS LATER?! This song encapsulates what’s going through my mind. The wrong, the trending, the entertainment of the world. Some seen and some not. How me and others are trying to fix the spreading fire around the world. War in Afghanistan, bombs in Lebanon, but on the parallel iron man, and aliens. “What else do I have to say?” really hits too. What else do u have to say? The world is burning and we’re watching it happen, while some are trying to stop it.
(this is super long but I’m going to listen to this song for eternity now, and the old one too. And yeah, no chronological order is a bit of a pet peeve, but the song is still great.)
It sounds like “goodbye 2007” from jibjab
I just found out about it today too!
Check out "That Funny Feeling" by Bo Burnham
@@silly_on_ will do 👍
I'm confused why they didn't mention the collapse of the Soviet Union
This song hits different when you are actually familiar with most of the events listed.
This is to true
this AND the original...
Congrats you live in the world
Or it hits exactly as it should as it’s the point of the song…
@@Jackmcnaul But the song only hits because you know the events mentioned (Because the song is nothing but those events). The original song doesn't hit as hard nowadays, when those events aren't very recent...
I was a child when the first version of this song was a big hit. I loved it even though I was too young to understand most of the references. The fact that this version exists now makes me so happy. I hope the next generation eventually writes one of their own.
Since I was born after the original came out, it hit different knowing that I‘ve been alive to witness almost all of the things mentioned…
I was here for both
The original actually meant something and the song made sense.
I was in tears due to this very same reason.
Boomers brainwashed me into thinking I was there for Sixties. So it practically felt like both. The Greatest Generation, on the other hand, not much to tell me. I am still annoyed about this.
Agree with you - Now imagine being 70 years old and all the events, misdeeds, memes, violent interactions, cultural statements and the rest that have occurred in that time span....
This is legendary. Thank you Billy Joel, thank you Fall Out Boy
I’m just gonna listen to this on repeat for the unforeseeable future. The sequel we didn’t know we needed. I kinda hope I’m here in the next 30 years to see it continue.
Exactly what I was thinking
This and new MMMBop.
@@themaaalibu yesss
I think this song is super great for this era, especially given our new ways of digesting and processing information and events. Lord knows we all jump around when thinking about major events of our lives. Plus, so much has happened, globally and in pop culture. I'll always love this take, especially as a bonus track for the album.
They did a darned good job packing so many events into a 3-minute song.
I liked the part when fall out boy said “it’s morbin time” during the second verse truly brings back memories of one of the moments in human history.
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How dare you, my friend sent this to me saying it was awful and this comment was the one thing I was looking forward to
Am i stupid or do i just overhear it every single time?
Truly one of the movies of all time
This meme is not funny anymore
I'm a little surprised that COVID didn't make it into the song somehow, but it's great to have this updated to things I've lived through in my life ('87 East Germany right here) I also think it's hilarious that something happened in the Suez canal AGAIN to have it perfectly fit in the song. That darn ship was so meme-worthy and made quarantine a little more bearable.
Because it only went to about 2010. Joel didn't go to the most current year either.
@pzzldmom I mean the intro does say from "1989 - 2023". And it does mention both of Trumps impeachments so it does use events after Covid started.
I thought the same thing. COVID was a huge impact and I'm really surprised it wasn't included.
@@seraphimvalkyrin4543 fair point.
I’m assuming it’s only including events solely caused by humans?
Holy **** dude this it me in the feels, thinking of all I've witnessed in my life. All those I've lost along the way. I got a little teary eyed for sure.
I actually like how it's not chronological. Really encapsulates how the last ten or so years have been a blur to me. I can't even remember the chronology of these events in my own lifetime, I just feel like everything's on fire.
This is a great way to articulate it. I thought it was odd it wasn't in order....but how you described the sensation it gives, compared with my own life.... I agree.
That was just part of the point of the original song. It doesn't make too much sense to claim how the last few decades have been a mess when the message was "No, things have always been a mess."
@@AAAAAAAA-ss6gn I highly recommend thoroughly reading a comment before you decide to leave a response. I said decade, singular, not multiple decades. You can't say that my 'claims' are wrong, because they're my personal emotions and thoughts. I know things have always been a mess, but this is the mess that I have personally experienced in my lifetime, and I feel like the last ten years in particular have been particularly messy. Maybe I'll feel differently in another ten years time.
Covid is missing 😂
@@loncleyaroctis6951 Well... There's already a We Didn't Start The Fire 2020 edition grkshd
This song is way more morbid when you’ve actually live through the events
Yeah, when he said Abe blown away all I thinks was, "well damn".
And even more morbid thinking as a Gen X and living through both Billy Joel’s version and now this .. The world needs to change
@@marcosjimenez2793 I thought it was JFK blown away
That’s exactly what I as thinking “man, we have seen some shit” haha
@@z3ndigital873 yeah I couldn’t imagine living through two different we didn’t start the fire versions
I think it's an unspoken rule that somebody, somewhere, wakes up one day and suddenly realizes they have the responsibility of re-creating this song.
and the cycle will continue every 20 years.
Don’t worry we will make ur theory come true
@@Crazytwister-vw4er yay😁
I was so surprised and happy that they mentioned Metroid, that's awesome I didn't think it was well known enough to be in this song lol
Omg! I have been thinking for a while that Billy Joel should have done an updated version, but I'm so glad that Fall Out Boy did! They did the song justice imo. Great job guys!
I love that Fall Out Boy didn't just use the original lyrics but remastered it for the current generations. Good on them.
I live in, don't know why the critics are giving this song negative reviews, Billy Joel even liked it
@@mattint0sh probably because the events aren't in chronilogical order as well as Billy Joels version
@@edwardcannon9199 hey I just like the smg, that's good enough for me
@@mattint0shBecause fall out boy sucks
@@dunceandco then how are they still together if they “suck”
As a 77 baby . This is much more relatable. But so sad what weve lived thru and the chaos were still living thru 😪 its tiring but still fighting 🤘
Great version guys love it 🥰
as someone who grew up thinking how fire this song was, hearing this version could bring tears to my eyes. Also this is the account i get free trials on from food places and hulu
Beyond overdue - I salute you! Thank you to everyone who made this song happen!
I’ve always loved Billy’s version but have said my generation needed this redone (born in 88). Fall out boy killed this. Amazing
vocal performance quite flat
@@darkskinwhitenot at all
I thought this was terrible
it was lazy compared to the Original.
@@pizzaki582 in the writing and vocal performance.
I love Patrick’s classic soul voice ad-libs kicking in at 2:56! 😍🎤 He needs to do that more often on the studio versions of their songs again. He mostly only does it live these days. It always sounds sooo good and unique mixed with the rock instrumentation. So distinctly Patrick/FOB. Can’t get enough.
Same! It’s so good 💜💜
Okay, first of all: the song is a banger. It continues the tradition of the original to highlight the absolut madness of important events and their consequences for humanity by simply naming them and as such having the audience take a look at said event. And dear lord, the past 30 years were no walk in the park.
But unfortunatly a piece of the puzzle was thrown out in this version: the chronology. The original worked so well because it was basically the song version of a history book, allowing the reader to immediatly get a grasp on the past due to being chronological. This version instead jumps in time, either to get the verses to rhyme or in the attempt to focus on the important stuff. Does it work? No, not really. Because the importance of a historic event is not a subjective meassuement, but rather objective. As such this song is more of a commentary by the band rather than a "sequel" to the original, which is more on the objective side, giving the audience the abillity and duty to do some thinking on their own, yet not presenting personal opinions as a fact.
In conclusion: the song is good and deserves praise for the artistic idea. But trying to tie it to the originalor presenting it as a sequel is not really appropriate for the lack of the element of objective and causal events in history. 9 out of 15 points (C+).
I agree w you. Not being in order kind of throws it off.
AI written comment award
I would love to see both Fall Out Boy and Billy Joel do both versions of the song together.
Omggggggg 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Hell yeah I would love that
Someone make this happen!
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!
This would be great as a superbowl halftime show
I didn’t realize how much we have been through but honestly that line we’re trying to fight it does make me feel better
We've been through ALOT.
You didnt realize that sh*t happens over 35 years?
Prediction - more crazy sh*t will continue to happen.
@@w1ndgeneral226 yeah...SO MUCH. Like....let's see here....Captain Planet and Pokemon. Yeah...... come to think of it, NO. This song sucks so bad, compared to the original. THOSE were actually pivotal events in world history.
@@daxmiller35
They were *eventful,* definitely.
@@w1ndgeneral226 yeah, you're right. Michael Jordan playing baseball was definitely the Berlin Wall of our time. Hahaha
Me and a few lads were talking about 4 days ok about how this song needs updating. Little did we know Fall Out Boy had us covered. Good job lads.
You said happy birthday to my mom this morning! It made her day, Pat! ❤
I always thought this song should keep getting new versions, but as someone that tried to write lyrics for it a few times for fun (not a musician) it isn't easy, so doing it well is very impressive. I love it!
@@LRM5195 What part of "World Trade Second Plane" did you not get?
As long as it's not these talentless morons making the song
I did, too. It's very challenging!
I NEED a 10min version of this song. The whirlwind that's been the 2,000's requires a longer rendition. 😩
You could make a 10 minute one based off of 2020 alone lol
Who knew our generations would have our own version of this banger, I adore this and the thought behind it
Bartender: "Somebody sing me a song about the last 34 years!"
Fall Out Boy: "Hold our beers!"
Fall Out Boy got me deep into pop punk. Billy Joel was my first memory of music and my all time favorite artist. This is the BEST.
I remember literally all of the events in this song. I remember a good bit of what's in the original, too, & knew of all of what happened even tho a lot was before I was born. My only criticism is that it's not chronological, unlike the original. But my daughter pointed out that it kinds works due to how chaotic it's all been.
It sort of doesn’t feel like time moves linearly anymore anyway :/
I myself was also unsatisfied with how un-chronological it was, and me and a friend attempted to think of a version that is in proper chronological order. And we just couldn't find a line that even hit a quarter as hard as "World Trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?" The song also sounds just way more chaotic with how everything is un-chronological, especially with the line of "we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it". Everything is so chaotic and us as a collective is trying to fight against the chaos, despite that, we can't, the fire still burns.
Congratulations, you live on earth.
It's lazy, that's why it's not in chronological order. Just words referencing things that happened. No emotion, no talent. Nostalgia bate has been cringe for a while now.
Smart daughter
I have been wanting someone to remake this song with current events for 7 years !!!!!! I love the original and how impactful it was and I think this did that justice 🙌🏻🙌🏻
same here, they did a good job
So true!! Agreed!! 💕🇦🇺💃
Honestly the last 7 years alone would have enough shit to fill this song
This cover is only a year old, and so much more has happened since then, holy shit.
This song has so so much more meaning now that I’m older and now that this version includes events I’ve actually lived through. I won’t lie, this made me tear up for some reason.
Can I say my only complaint is a lot of these events are out of order...
@@julianasalaz5250Billy Joel's wasn't in order either
Full. Body. Chills.
I lived thru both versions events
@@julianasalaz5250stop complaining then, it rhymes!☝🏼😇
I can't help feeling that a big part of the joy of the original is that it was in chronological order and everything scanned comfortably.
I'd like to think it's due to how fucking chaotic things have been, a real representative of our state of mind rn As a society
100% agreed
@willnelson9906 Well if that's the rebuttal case, then we're headed in the wrong direction.
@@willnelson9906no matter how chaotic things have gotten in society, it's never felt... out of order chronologically. I get maybe it's not literal but it's not a good way to represent anything, really.
@@notmattmurdock7663 idk about you but frankly after living through non-stop historic events, my sense of when things happened exactly is mostly gone LMAO
Imagine how frustrating it must be for a fortuneteller in 1988 if all they had was this song to go by.
They'd be wondering what the heck spongebob and pokemon are!😂
@@PolarBearChoujin2470🤣😂 funny!
Best comment 😂
And the fear of the bombings, random cities (how could they be important?), and is the world tower/second plane related or just two ideas that happen to be placed together
especially because the events don't go in order like Billy Joel's do
Perfectly done. LONG LIVE FOB!!
Putting on my Take This To Your Grave vinyl on now.
The original has been one of my favorite songs my entire life and I am absolutely ECSTATIC to see not only an updated version but one done by my all time favorite band. I love this so much
Such a small change, but the "we're trying to fight it" line makes me feel more hopeful, I love it.
Or more desperate. I'll try and fight it, I hope I make it, but I got a fall back plan. Way, way, way back!!!
Wasn't that in the original?
@@Psydkikit was "we tried to fight it"
Made me tear up a bit tbh.
Fighting Fraud '20 currently. Anyone doesn't see it is 100%delusional. Corporate establishment Is in control and by comparison, Trumps a small patriot NOT Big money, oh well, Enjoy '24. It's happnin.
i've been turning to a lot of billy joel songs as the "i really wish i weren't living through a major historical event right now" energy's gone haywire throughout my 20something ennui and it's honestly really amazing for the band that carried my teen years to be putting their own spin on this song 🥹🫶 much love to everyone pushing through these long 2020s!!
I love that a 20-something appreciates Billy’s Joel!
@@elcaldy4435I’m also a 20-year-old Billy Joel enjoyer! Good music never dies.
Living through major historical events is fun until it isn’t
@@izthistle6196 lol someone in my history class said “I want to live through a historical event” a couple weeks before the pandemic. I blame them.
I really wish I weren't living through *EVERY historical event right now
I heard Billy Joel's version first thing this morning. This song needs to be constantly updated for the amount of shit that keeps happening. This song needs to go viral!!
Could probably do a version based on the last 8 years alone (12 if FOTUS actually makes it through the next 4 years)
This means so much to me that you continued this song. I grew up a huge Billy Joel fan. When the original song came out, I was in High School. That Christmas, my parent got me my first drum kit. I played this song over and over. This songs hits close to home, because it's more lyrics of my time. I was 15 in 1989. Thank you so much for this song.
I am so glad someone has finally done this. May the tradition live on.
Came to this expecting an early 2000s themed cover. Was NOT expecting this to have been released within the past few years and contain so much about the past few years. Love it
I normally don't listen to fall out boy but this song caught my attention at a Wendy's...good job guys...now in 2050, someone has to do the next 3 decades....Billy Joel should be impressed
This is how my brain works. It’s chaos but it’s there means I noticed and I cared. I love it very much.
I like how so many contemporary covers change "but we tried to fight it" to "but we're trying to fight it," this one included. Great cover!
The original says 'trying' as well.
It is amazing how a list (clearly done right) has such an impact. Thank you for updating it and I agree with others who have commented, I feel like every generation needs to update it. Good job Fall Out Boy!
Fall Out Boy is such a underrated band. This is a cover but they definetly put their own sound to this classic. The new lyrics really fit well. They did a great job.
The world is still turning. The world is still burning. See you all in 30 years, I’ll be 55 by then and I look forward to see how this all plays out. Stay safe everyone, pick your fights, living to tell the tale is more important than getting wrapped up in the whirlwind of everyone else’s despair. Take care of yourself and those you hold onto dearly. Be mindful and aware. Staying silent isn’t easy, but it’s easy to speak out and make a scene.
hopefully you have better taste in music in 30 years
@@apeirotopecrow7957 Thank you, Next
Indeed. Still we need go forward and make a change, so unique for everyone, maybe so little and hilarious but worth-a-try one.
To stand by and do nothing when the world goes to ruin makes you complicit. At the very least we should all strive to do *something* to make the world less messed up. Like doing your damnedest to minimize unnecessary consumption.
It’s quite hilarious how all I did was just say [what’s up above] and instead I get these threads of random comments that are super biased. Is it worth going out there and making a difference when that difference may have an impact on someone else?
Doing nothing and not changing anything establishes consistency and less confusion.
At the individual level it’s hard to accomplish anything these days. It
seems to be necessary to victimize oneself to gain a group of blind supporters/followers to make anything happen.
“Damned if you do and damned if you don’t”. I’m sure you’re familiar with that phrase.
I always used to say to my dad, "Imagine how much could be added to this song today." Now I no longer have to.
You can always expect better, however.
Soo cool song update on 2022 😊😊😊
Poe Francis got snubbed. Floyd Mayweather.
@@jaypence332Chernobyl got snubbed in the OG
@@GregKeaton I *so* agree, I think they forgot / did not know about Depp V. Heard, The U.S. Capital Building riot, and Chlorine Con!
Glad they did this, and they did a great job with it. The reason Billy Joel made the song in 1989 he was saying the times feel wild now, but they were for his parents too, and their parents, etc. The names and details are constantly changing but it's always a mix of good, bad, and crazy in this world.
But this song doesn't continue the theme. It's all out of order. It had references from my childhood mixed with stuff I'm pretty sure happened like 10 to 15 years later. It's supposed to be a progression year by year, decade by decade, showing that this stuff has always been going on.
This version is just random stuff. There's no progression. There's no building tension until "I can't take it anymore." Instead it's more like, do you have a point? Why are you connecting Captain Planet and the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring is like 15 years later and has nothing to do with the environment. Why are these two concepts together?
I'm with you, jennifer. I feel like they missed the point of the original song. This remake is a messy mashup.
Man, fall out boy really just turned a very good billy joel song from 1989 then modernized the lyrics and turned it into something incredible