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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2023
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how did rhyming george floyd with metroid ever get approved
That's the one
Also, why the hell is METROID on the list? Like, Minecraft ain't there, Fortnite ain't there, Mario ain't there, but Metroid of all things is? I like Metroid, but even I'm confused. Is this some roundabout way to pressure Nintendo into dropping Metroid Prime 4 already or something?
@@samt3412 Idk you are severely underselling metroid my guy, it birthed an entire genre of games that includes some of the GOATS. I don't disagree that it's funny thats the one that gets referenced when there are even more culturally significant jugernauts like Minecraft or Ocarina/Mario 64 etc... but lets not act like SM isn't one of the most influential video games of all time
@@_heartunderblade2451 I'm not saying SM isn't influential, but even among Nintendo franchises, Metroid isn't quite as recognizable. Hell, Samus is the eighth or ninth most-iconic character in Smash 64, only being more recognizable than Falcon, Ness, Fox, and maybe Jigglypuff. The only gaming franchises that get mentioned are Pokemon and Metroid, and I'm fairly certain one is a couple orders of magnitude more known than the other.
@@samt3412 If this is what it takes for Prime 4 to be released, Then so be it lol
it always amazes me when melon just casually whips out a near perfect impression. it's always the people you least expect.
The fact that I knew what this comment was about says something that first “SpongeBob “was perfect
Right his Billy Joel was fucking nuttz
thats not the only thing i want melon to whip out
😩😩😩
@@FlameOnTheBeatNOT ME FORMULERRR
@@DylpiqkleSTierOr because it was the only "impression" done in the video? Lol wtf
8:59 Crazy how you were mostly joking and yet your lyrics are better and more cohesive than the actual song
It literally is; how the fuck did Stump screw this so bad
and honestly if they had ended with “falloyboy does billy joel” it would’ve been kinda genius
I'm saying! Really shows the lack of care that Fallout B puts into their craft. That's embarrassing lmao. Omg
That’s why he’s the critic!
I thought the same. Just goes to show how fucking terrible their lyrics were that a half joking Fantano wrote FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR better lyrics sardonically for a bit.
An important thing to mention is that the Billy Joel version was pretty much in chronological order. Say what you want about that song but it at least had a logical flow that was like a basic history lesson. The Fall Out Boy version literally has the LA riots and Rodney King next to deepfakes.
He did say that.
tbf i have verry mixed feelings about that. I almost kinda like it being in a seemingly random order. It feels like it expresses how chatoic and blurred together these times have been. showcases that the world is in a bad place and it feels like everything is happening at once.
LA riots were deepfakes confirmed all along
Same. Billy Joel's song has this feeling of "where we started" vs "where we ended up" which fallout boy completely lost
@@directorredacted8408Well, yes, maybe. But I tend to think they assembled a huge amount of names and events and matched them together in a way that flows with the song. That being said, doing that in a cohesive manner would be quite the task.
I never realized how impressive it is that Billy Joel got all those historical events to rhyme. Thank you Pete Wentz for making me appreciate a song I previously hated.
Plus doing it chronological order
why did you hate the song previously if you dont mind
@@baldwhimsicott798when I was younger I personally found the pace annoying and it took me a while to just appreciate Billy Joel as whole as his style of singing was kind of grating to my younger self I'm now spouting my opinion however I feel many people who didn't grow up with Billy Joel aren't necessarily going to appreciate it unless you are being raised by someone who is an avid listener of his music at least nowadays
Its because Billy Joel was and is, primarily a song writer. The majority of his famous early work was written with other vocalists or bands in mind (often guys with perfect/clean voices like Jackson Browne or Glenn Frey). It wasn't him, but the label/industry that pushed him to take on the "singer/songwriter" mantel (instead of being a ghostwriter) and to this day he is rife with insecurities regarding his (often self perceived) inadequacies as a "clean pop vocalist". His songwriting has always been second to none with this in mind. Absolute genius though, incredible catalogue of songwriting and performances (both instrumental and vocally - his imperfections are what make his voice perfect). He was never a Freddie Mercury or a Daryll Hall, but he didn't have to be. His lyrics, songwriting, and piano performances meant a lot more than that. His experiences with alcohol consumption always shine through in his poetry regarding depression, coping mechanisms, and self-destruction. Though he might be cruise-ship core at this point, Billy Joel is absolutely correctly rated as an icon.
@@baldwhimsicott798the song is pretty annoying and cheesy... The whole thing about the lyrics is neat ig, but lyrics dont make the song sound great
WE DIDNT START THE FIRE 🔥 🔥🔥 WE PUT IT OUT
And they did it all with CRINGE! That's power, of a sort
How can Melon claim he didn’t start the fire and then drop straight HEAT 🔥
"Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokemon" is one of the greatest lines in music history
Straight fire that's been burning since the world's been turning
That’s probably not the worst thing about this song, but it still doesn’t hold a candle to the original
how do you even approve a rhyme about oklahoma city bomb with kurt cobain and pokemon..
Billy Joel had the decency to organize his song by decade, Pete couldn’t even manage that
Pete couldn’t even organize it by century lol
It'd almost be forgivable if it were sacrificed for rhyme scheme, but Brexit and Taylor Swift don't rhyme homie.
I made my own version for school a few weeks ago, don’t know if the quality is good, but it’s here if anyone wants. It’s chronological and stuff
Disaster at Chernobyl, HIV goes global
Berlin Wall, Lucille Ball, start of Dragon Ball
Springfield Simpsonmania, Hogan’s Wrestlemania
Massacres in China, storms in Carolina
Nelson’s back, worth the wait, Gulf War in Kuwait
Woodstock comeback, OKC attacked
Doc Dre and Ice Cube, Schaivo put on the tube
Rafters from Havana, Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana
Desert Storm attacks, Bill Clinton on the sax
We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
Riots in LA, Tonight Show starring Jay
Gloves don’t fit, must acquit
Waco, Ruby Ridge, take your steaks outta the fridge
Sonic vs Mario, trouble in the Barrio
Pixar, water car, Nike picks a star
Boy bands on the stage, Harry Potter on the page
Princess in a car crash, Beanie Babies equal cash
Tupac and Biggie, lost another Kennedy
Reality tv shows, Michael Jackson’s nose
NBA teams can’t play, fear of Y2K
Birth of World Wide Web, last vote goes to Jeb
Dot Com bubble burst, Obi-Wan is in a hearse
Two Towers fell that day! 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, no we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it
Hello Richard Cheney, New Orleans got rainy
Anthrax, death tax, Beatles loses ax
Captain crashed the Costa, Batman loses Co-star
iPhone on the scene, Writer’s Guild wants more green
UA-cam is viral, stock market spiral
Dancing on the treadmill, BP has an oil spill
Rick Rolling, message boards, ISIS warlords
Banning planking, Soulja Boy cranking
President Obama, find Osama
33 men in cave, torture in Abu Ghraib
Regular Show, Adventure Time, Sully saves the airline
Get James Kony, we’ve lost Tony, Gates fights Sony
North Korean Kim Jong Un, Amy Winehouse gone too soon
Haiti is quaking, Balloon Boy was faking
Terror at the Marathon, Google glass goes wrong
ALS ice freeze, Ebola disease
marriage rights, second Creed and Drago fight
California fires, German empty tires
Zoos shot Harambe, big attacks in Bombay
Pokémon at the polls, Trump and online trolls
Fyre Fest is not the best, Tony Weiner’s big arrest
Hong Kong protests, worldwide unrest
Britain leaves the Union, feds got Julian
Metoo movement widespread, Jeffrey Epstein ends up dead
Gender based wage gap, Hawaii nuke mishap
Eminem Kill shot verse, Thanos dusts the universe, Trouble in the Suez
Game of Thrones ending sucked, whole world just got Zucked
First pic of black hole, lowest scoring Super Bowl
Bat soup, stock up soon, Beirut goes Kaboom
Celebrity Imagine fails, Ellen goes off the rails
Fauci, George Floyd, Rittenhouse
Astroworld goes awry, left Kabul high and dry
England’s got a new king, fighting over vaccines
First time Messi wins it all, Iranian students brawl
Kanye called insane, Invasion of Ukraine
He literally says that was on purpose. “Listen, we wanted the Internet to still have something to complain about.”
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 "we tried less hard and did a worse job on purpose" lolololol
Melon should turn the we didn’t start the fire cover he did at the end into a whole song about the last 30 years. I don’t think anybody’s done that yet
So far it's superior to Fallout Boy's.
Metroid being tied to George Floyd was such a lyrical turn I felt G forces.
one of those turns that sends ppl careening into a crater in coaster tycoon
This lyrical rollercoaster just got rated a 19.91 (Extreme)
@@pauldee1577 Just looking at Fall Out Boy's We Didn't Start the Fire makes me feel sick.
Don't worry, Anthony! Your own interpretation of "We Didn't Start The Fire" from back then will always be superior in my heart.
“We didn’t start the cancer it continues growing with the memes your posting.”
When he pulled the guitar out I was genuinely expecting him to start playing we didn't start the cancer and when he didn't, it really felt like a missed opportunity .
Agreed
It's probably better than the OG song. And was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Fallout Boy rendition popup in my recommended videos.
This just make me respect Billie Joel more for making a cohesive song full of reference without being stupid.
nah the billy joel song sucks horribly too
Yes! I just listened to the original again and I respected it so much more, it's really impressive.
Billy had the better rhymes AND the lyrics list the event in orders
@@jabba820Don’t talk bad about the GOAT like that
Billy Joel was pretty good at writing lyrics so that's why the original is much better than this disaster, but still it's not one of his best songs.
To go from NOT GOOD to mid is honestly a level of improvement Nav's dreams couldn't even dream....
It's against the laws of physics for Nav to get a 5. Or anything less than a 10 for that matter.
Navs dreaming of a thought that could dream of a thould that could...
Yeah, FOBs newest music is kinda mid but their old albums are fire 🔥🔥
I love how much they appreciated the huge connection between MCR's black parade, michael phelps, and Y2K
How much do I need to pay for Fantano to write his own whole version
Full Fantano version of the song NOW!
Melon head, Grateful Dead, something something bread
It’s like they sat down and said “We should write a song that has the power and impact of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” for the new generation!” Then at some point they gave up and just covered it..but this time the lyrics suck
The 1975 beat them to that punch.
Anthony. I can forgive you for giving MBDTF a 6/10 but saying Captain Planet is a D-list cartoon crosses the line
A D-list cartoon would be Rubik: The Amazing Cube, not Captain Planet
Man, I thought this was one of those joke comments like "Melon, taking a kid's inhaler away is not what we meant by Weezer" but he actually called Captain Planet D tier
Captain Planet WAS a D list cartoon. D might be generous. It was awful.
@@HardworlderIt's got brand power though, everyone knows Captain Planet. It was like the 9/11 of 90s cartoons.
tbf MBDTF is pretty trash
"Will Balloon boy be relevant in 30 years? No."
I don't even know what balloon boy is now.
Melons SpongeBob laugh has me scared for life
That Mr. Krabs impression is fire tho 🔥🔥
fall out boy really thought listing random events in pop culture for a verse was top-tier music
thats literally what the originally song is
@mikeyreza nah bro, what billy Joel wrote was clever. This is just nonsense. Lol
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@@R0Y_boy22 true but they are both just lists of random events in pop culture
@@mikeyreza Billy Joel didn't list random events tho. They're pretty well curated to give contrasts between different events and tell a story. FoB's just kind of shove whatever rhymed in there.
@@sagganuts18 im pretty sure I heard somewhere he wrote the original to spite a younger dude who tried to say things are only happening in the present and nothing happened in the past before he was born. So Billy Joel used an almanac or an encyclopedia or something and going through the events of each decade and picking out what rhymes which is what led to the song being in some kind of order and having a bunch of different random things in it. While the cover feels like the band got together listened a bunch of random things that kinda fit with no rhyme or reason.
the worst part isn't even the bad lyrics, they're basically just doing the original in a different era. the worst part is the fact that the lyrics don't gel together whatsoever. there's a part in the original that ends a line earlier than others on "communist block" (may happen more than once but that's the first to come to mind) yet FOB do that multiple times and it comes off as if they're just singing the lyrics improv. the Bezos/whine rhino line is the worst because they don't gel together whatsoever!
The original isn't in perfect chronological order, but it's fairly close, so you get sort of a sense of a timeline. The FOB version is all over the place in that regard and feels like a jumbled mess.
I made my own version for school a few weeks ago, don’t know if the quality is good, but it’s here if anyone wants. It’s chronological and stuff
Disaster at Chernobyl, HIV goes global
Berlin Wall, Lucille Ball, start of Dragon Ball
Springfield Simpsonmania, Hogan’s Wrestlemania
Massacres in China, storms in Carolina
Nelson’s back, worth the wait, Gulf War in Kuwait
Woodstock comeback, OKC attacked
Doc Dre and Ice Cube, Schaivo put on the tube
Rafters from Havana, Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana
Desert Storm attacks, Bill Clinton on the sax
We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning
Riots in LA, Tonight Show starring Jay
Gloves don’t fit, must acquit
Waco, Ruby Ridge, take your steaks outta the fridge
Sonic vs Mario, trouble in the Barrio
Pixar, water car, Nike picks a star
Boy bands on the stage, Harry Potter on the page
Princess in a crash, Beanie Babies equal cash
Tupac and Biggie, lost another Kennedy
Reality tv shows, Michael Jackson’s nose
NBA teams can’t play, fear of Y2K
Birth of World Wide Web, last vote goes to Jeb
Dot Com bubble burst, Obi-Wan is in a hearse
Two Towers fell that day! 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, no we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it
Hello Richard Cheney, New Orleans got rainy
Anthrax, death tax, Beatles loses ax
Captain crashed the Costa, Batman loses Co-star
iPhone on the scene, Writer’s Guild wants more green
UA-cam is viral, stock market spiral
Dancing on the treadmill, BP has an oil spill
Rick Rolling, message boards, ISIS warlords
Banning planking, Soulja Boy cranking
President Obama, find Osama
33 men in cave, torture in Abu Ghraib
Regular Show, Adventure Time, Sully saves the airline
Get James Kony, we’ve lost Tony, Gates fights Sony
North Korean Kim Jong Un, Amy Winehouse gone too soon
Haiti is quaking, Balloon Boy was faking
Terror at the Marathon, Google glass goes wrong
ALS ice freeze, Ebola disease
marriage rights, second Creed and Drago fight
California fires, German empty tires
Zoos shot Harambe, big attacks in Bombay
Pokémon at the polls, Trump and online trolls
Fyre Fest is not the best, Tony Weiner’s big arrest
Hong Kong protests, worldwide unrest
Britain leaves the Union, feds got Julian
Metoo movement widespread, Jeffrey Epstein ends up dead
Gender based wage gap, Hawaii nuke mishap
Eminem Kill shot verse, Thanos dusts the universe, Trouble in the Suez
Game of Thrones ending sucked, whole world just got Zucked
First pic of black hole, lowest scoring Super Bowl
Bat soup, stock up soon, Beirut goes Kaboom
Celebrity Imagine fails, Ellen goes off the rails
Fauci, George Floyd, Rittenhouse
Astroworld goes awry, left Kabul high and dry
England’s got a new king, fighting over vaccines
First time Messi wins it all, Iranian students brawl
Kanye called insane, Invasion of Ukraine
@@kourii”a jumbled mess”
So it feels like the era it’s talking about?
@@dandyman204 This must have taken a lot of time to put together! I enjoyed reading it. Good work!
@@mr.stuffdoer8483yeah but you can say the same damn thing about the period that Joel covered. That has the backdrop of being the Cold War and has multiple wars and threats to the world all devolving into a big mushroom cloud. The song was meant to show any period can be chaotic and worth talking about.
i think another thing missing in the fall out boy version is subtlety. the original listed several deaths of public figures. santayana, joseph stalin, prokofiev, einstein, james dean, buddy holly, and hemingway, but none of them actually mention death, save for "santayana goodbye", whereas fall out boy's version feels the need to spell out "michael jackson dies" and "prince and the queen die" as if we couldn't figure out why they were in the song without that. it's also seen in lines like "golden state killer got caught", "robert downey jr iron man", "trump gets impeached twice", and "polar bears got no ice" where it just adds unnecessary context. "golden state killer", "iron man", "trump impeachment", and "ice caps" would have been sufficient.
To me that’s definitely what is the biggest problem as well, but more in a way of condensing the lyrics. Either to many words are dedicated to a topic or they seemingly double down on it. It happens way to much and it loses all the snappiness of the original and makes it more dull as a result. The RDJ Iron Man one hit me like a brick wall with how unnecessary it was.
@@hans_the_great It's bizarre how the cover seems to snap between over-explaining, and the random lists of unrelated, not-even-chronological events that took place in the time span they're covering. Really goes to show how little they understood from the original when remaking it
Ironically I think this song somehow accidentally taps into the fact we most focus as a society on extremely violent/traumatic events and then the most inane pop culture things such as pokemon, marvel, etc.
Granted it doesn’t do it in a good way cause it’s not intentional, but it’s there.
I think the original mostly focused on tragedy though didnt it?
@@erincurrie1560 no not really. I mean it did cover a decent bit of wars and disasters, but those are often the most notable historical topics, so it makes a lot of sense
@@erincurrie1560and baseball
melon please give us a full cover of your version of We didn't start the fire, I would genuinely listen to that wtf
been thinking about these lyrics again, and the fundamental problem is way more obvious now. It's not just the weird exclusions, the ghoulish juxtapositions, not even the fact that it's non-chronological (though that's sort of part of it)
This version of the song doesn't really have a *_perspective_*
With Joel's, there's an internal logic to why it's demarcated the way it is. He'd just turned 40 when he wrote it and so he begins with his birth year and works his way up to the present; it suggests a point of view, probably common among people of his age at the time, of "Jesus Christ, what a batshit crazy mid-century I've lived through" and doing it chronologically gives you a sense of being dragged through 40 years of very radical change. You don't have to love the song, a lot of people don't, but undeniably there is a story being told when he starts with Doris Day and ends with AIDS. The FoB version has the raw materials in place to do the same thing for a Millennial audience, but the lack of chronology just renders it all into a weird slush of incidents without ever indicating that Wentz feels any particular way about them or how we've experienced them or how they relate to one another.
Also, why Spielberg but not _The Matrix_
Honestly, I argee with you.
Also I see a lot of people say they don't understand why Billy Joel says "We didn't start the fire" the message is supposed to be huge news worthy events that happened during his life and that his generation didn't cause the bad things, but also didn't stop them because the world's always been that way. Fall Out Boy didn't seem to get that. They even changed the lyrics from "but we tried to fight it" to "but we're trying to fight it". The whole point it that you can't fight it as sad and devastating as that might be at times.
@@user-pl3ov4vx3h Yeah, it's originally a pretty defeatist song and FOB didn't get it at all.
So far my favorite sequel to the original is Leslie Knope’s BS “don’t know the words” cover from Parks and Rec with true fire lyrics like “Harry Truman was a guy,” “this is awesome, you’re so stupid, jumping up and down,” and the piece de resistance “daddy ate a squirrel.”
I feel like more work was put into making that cover funny than making this one work as a true “sequel”
It’s crazy cuz my dad is a big Billy Joel fan and I have said for years now that doing an update of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” was a home run of an idea. I’d like to thank Fallout Boy for proving me wrong.
It’s a home run if a competent writer is penning the lyrics. Not Fall Out Boy.
But then you'd have to thank Melon for proving you right....
I definitely agree the lyrics were poorly executed and there were some things in pretty bad taste ("George Floyd/Metroid" is just insane) but to be fair the original Billy Joel song did have some crazy juxtapositions too. They were more justified since it was literally in chronological order but "Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo" is a bit weird - a musician, a film, and genocidal imperialism is a crazy trio. With the 9/11 line I think that was probably the best anyone could really do. You're pretty much obligated to mention it and it seemed like an alright enough lyric to me. No mention of covid is definitely just stupid though.
Did they give an explanation for the lack of a COVID line? That's damn near the biggest societal event we've had in a decade with all the social uproar that spawned from it
@@heckingbamboozled8097 It was "too obvious" a topic apparently. Which makes no sense if you're doing a recap lol. I get that the pandemic and a lot of its pain is still fresh in people's minds but come on. If you're going to make a "time capsule" of the last few decades you *have* to include covid.
along with Brexit + VMA 2009 incident.
i gotta say, the way billy joel says AIDS and crack back to back in the original always gives me whiplash- like getting punched in the face twice in a row
Another Glaringly obvious one would be to mention the Fall of the Soviet Union, which call me crazy, may or may not have been more important historically than captain plannet
I was kinda worried when you just glossed over this song and just mentioned it was bad in your song week video. I'm glad it is now receiving the grilling that it righfully deserves.
I thought the whole point of We Didn’t Start the Fire supposed to be “the state of the world has always been a rollercoaster and it always will be”
Say what you will about it even being a good song or not, but even with all of the old references it never needed a “modern version” due to just how timeless the actual message is.
EXACTLY. I've been looking for this exact comment. Seems completely redundant. If they wanted to do a cover they should've just done it, but changing all of the events to modern day in a completely disjointed manner didn't do the song any favors
Okay but Melon's version is legit a banger. Petition for a full redo. And also a redo of the ukelele apology vid.
I love bad lyrics, they’re so good
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I hate bad lyrics, they're awesome.
kanye?
It's like watching a bad movie but shorter and on a rhythm
“I love the Power Glove. It’s so bad!”
fall out boy transparently DESPERATE to go viral with this one
It could be better but I like that it exists, I really like the idea of having a new rendition of "We didnt Start the Fire" every now and then, like every 20-40 years, almost as a record of all the shit thats gone down every few decades, or even just as a record of the major events each generation has lived through.
So, I really hope it becomes a trend that keeps going and I hope they get better as time goes on.
Especially if shit keeps happening in the Suez, my favourite part of the song is when we get to "Ever Given Suez" as it feels feels like a strong tie back to "trouble in the suez", so i think it'd be really funny if we somehow got like 4 Renditions of the same song, and somehow, at the same part in the song, every few decades, something somehow happens in the Suez that's worth mentioning.
It's out of chronological order and it has to many pop culture references instead of more historical references that would have given it more lasing power.
SHOTS FIRED! The ball is in Fallout Boy's court to write a reply verse to Anthony!
the fact that it's not in chronological order is what pisses me off the most I think
Even if it was just PARTIALLY in chronological order it would've made more sense. Instead they chose to careen wildly between events within like a 30 year timespan. So jarring
The fact that it’s not in chronological order bothers me to levels that I cannot even begin to convey.
“Isis, Lebron James” is one of the greatest bars ever idc
"It's like living in a sitcom that never gets cancelled and I just want off the show"
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is Billy Joel’s worst song by miles and Billy will tell you that himself
Absolutely. I think I once read an interview he did where he basically said "at least history teachers get some use out of that song" - like, he doesn't see it as being good for anything else. And he's right, that song's only good as a musical list of miscellaneous political and cultural touchstones of the Cold War era!
it's so corny to listen to unless (presumably) u grew up with those news headlines and just wanna have a little "haha ya, crazy times" nostalgia moment listening to the 80s radio station on ur commute
i can't find the clip, but there's a video out there somewhere where he plays his original version of the song on piano with lyrics that have nothing to do with world events, and it actually pains me that he scrapped it for we didn't start the fire
Its either that or River of Dreams. But yeah We Didnt Start The Fire is awful
@@iamathousandapples river of dreams live was an absolute treat i think its travelling player
We were assigned to rewrite the lyrics to "We Didn't Start The Fire" in one of my high school classes and even though it's been years I'm sure at least 60% of those student rewrites would be better than this.
I swear I had the exact same assignment. And yes some of the students were better than this and we were like 10 with limited knowledge of pop culture.
Another cool thing about the original song is that it's (accidentally) kind of a chronology of the cold war, since the wall came down not long after the song
Anthony suddenly dropping "Too Much Volcano" @3:50 is such an unexpected crossover
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY, IT GAVE ME THE WILDEST WHIPLASH!
We need the Melon on Trash Taste
I didn't even catch that the first time. Oh my lord, that's incredible. I want to hear Melon's rating on Too Much Volcano now
Absolute power move to write an additional verse that blows everything in the Fall Out Boy cover out of the water
i feel like 'love it if we made it' by 1975 already was a pretty good contender for a contemporary we didn't start the fire
imo nothing even approaches Funny Feeling from that bo burnham special, and unlike we didnt start the fire its actually a good song 😊 sry genx
@@ckorp666 true, i totally forgot the most obvious answer! yeah it makes its point very elegantly and it's very well structured
I think Anthony actually did start the fire with those fire lyrics
Anthony you didn't have to make a verse better than their whole cover
Love that this isn't even a joke comment
I did not realize how massive Anthony’s hands were until he made that nylon string look like a Ukulele
Anytime you pull out an instrument I am stoked! Always sounds great. Again, I need
Track Reviews as a single. :)
If there's one thing this is good for, it's for showing how much chronology matters to the DNA of We Didn't Start the Fire. A stricter adherence to timeline would also smooth over a lot of the worst lines.
3:52 A S O, TOO MUCH VOLCANO
That caught me so off guard lol
3:51 idk if it was the editor or Fantano himself, but thank you for the "Too Much Volcano" tidbit.
There's a scene in the first episode of the clone high reboot where scudworth basically sings a 6 hour equivalent of this song, and it's probably leagues beyond whatever fallout boy was trying to do with this cover
I want to see another band do this cover better just to flex on FOB
Fantano's verse is already better in my book because of the Melee shoutout
A better Nickleback cover would be supreme
didn't bo burnham basically make this with "that funny feeling"
@aw11348 Yeah and I would say, conceptually, The 1975's 'Love It If We Made It' is also quite similar.
@@GizzyDillespeenickleback is sh!t
Don't you think I'm just going to let that "Too Much Volcano" reference slip by Mr. Fantano.
"Deep fakes, grimace shake"
I genuinely think a Fall Out Boy (it should really be Fallout Boy though) cover of Zanzibar in 2007 would have rocked.
I love the sheer noise of "Space Monkey Mafia" and can't wait to hear this version overlayed on it so I can learn everything that happened in the past 80 years in five minutes
fall out boy trying not to write some of the most garbage lyrics of 2023 (CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE)
I'm pleasantly surprised that there wasn't a Fortnite or Big Chungus reference.
Melon hasn't played Metroid Prime or Super Metroid and it really fucking shows holy shit. Two of the greatest games ever made with absolute banger soundtracks and this mfr thinks the franchise was peak relevance with the nes game💀
I feel like Noah Kahan’s new album “Stick Season” deserves a review, the extended version of that album is some of the best singer song writer / folk music iv heard in a long time
For real bruh why hasn’t melon done this one
3:50 love the split second reference to Too Much Volcano
When I was in middle school music class, I got in trouble for singing, "We didn't start the FIYA," instead of, "We didn't start the FIYUR." Thanks for validating me, Melon Man.
I like how My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade" is such an iconic album that Fall Out Boy had to reference it in their Billy Joel update
Edit: Metroid shouldn't be on the track as it's everything since the original in 1989
Cant help but think of FNAFs Balloon Boy when they say balloon boy
I feel that Nick Lutsko "2021 (Has Been So Fun)" is a pretty good interpretation of Billy Joel's work that also felt pretty topical. Sure it's a meme song, but it's very coherent and it adds context and narrative to the list format.
You take back your Captain Planet slander right now
Fantano saving my meal from the existential dread that comes with eating alone in silence, also captain planet is tough fym
i have verry mixed feelings about that. I almost kinda like it being in a seemingly random order. It feels like it expresses how chaotic and blurred together these times have been. showcases that the world is in a bad place and it feels like everything is happening at once. everything else you said is pretty true though.
See, I'd feel the same way if it came across as intentional, but imo it really doesn't. Listening to the song, it really just feels like they didn't even understand the original. Hell, they completely omitted COVID - one of the most important events of the last decade with how it not just impacted public health policies, but social policies and ideologies as well
One could say the same thing about the original’s time period but there was no social media back then.
I feel like these were the notes they initially made and instead of editing the list or trying to make it a song they just went with it
3:51 is that a fuckin "Too Much Volcano" reference
being a fall out boy fan is like going to war i know so much of it is bad but fall out boy they could never make me hate you world trade second plane baby
you should do a video where you write what the lyrics *should've* been if the song was written today
how can he just whip these perfect impressions out so casually
For all the hate, Billy Joel in the last verse decided to use "cola wars" as the big ending
6:37 i see you upping your pun game fantano! Good shit dude. I notice that stuff my guy, i got an eye for excellence, and some “space” to comment.
I love Patrick's voice and a huge amount of FOB's stuff but this is not the first time they've strayed into total cringe and I'm sad when some fellow fans won't just call a spade a spade and admit this is no bueno. I see what their intention was, and it wasn't a totally terrible idea but the execution is just not it.
The last 45 seconds are fire though 🔥 Patrick’s soul voice adlibs over the chorus + the driving guitar and drums + Neal Avron’s production is pure FOB and enough to save this for me. The new lyrics are the only downfall tbh.
Can we have more sarcastic, bitter, hilarious song covers / remixes please Melon. The end of this video is some of your finest work. Thank you
Years ago I was a camp Counsellor and part of my job was writing cheers which was basically writing covers to songs for the kids to sing. One theme was “time warp day” and brick brained me decided to cover “we didn’t start the fire” by Billy Joel with recent events instead of having the kids just shout “let’s do the time warp again”. My genius brain changed the line “north Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe “ (2 warring places and some relevant woman at the time) to “Israel, Garza strip, twerking Miley cyrus”. It got a laugh out of the guy judging it at the time but boy this fall out boy song sounds exactly what I wrote when I was 16
3:51 was that a Too Much Volcano reference? Amazing
This song would've been stronger and daring if the majority of the replaced lyrics were all of bad things and scandals that happened in recent history. With all those lyrics it would have been a perfect opportunity to cast light on underminded issues in society from all over the world.
They will never be Weezer. The turkey line is the best lyric of all time.
The one off of El Scorcho?
I’LL BRING HOME THE TURKEY IF YOU BRING HOME THE BACON YEAAHHH
@@turvimania yeah that's the one, though it's certainly not the strangest line off El Scorcho alone
Never being weezer sounds like a good thing to be
Weird they didn’t mention Bowies death
3:51 bruh I did not just get a Too Much Volcano reference in a video abt Fall Out Boy, man Joey would be floored if he knew that lol
I've got unironic chills from your added verse, Melon.
Even after all these year you have never lost your edge. Huge respect to you, Fantano!
Wow, I must say I was quite impressed at the FNAF at Freddy's reference in the line "Balloon Boy, War on Terror, QAnon".
Strong “old man yelling at the kids playing in his yard” vibes. Light 4
The fact that fantanos little excerpt is better than the whole of FOB's version is killing me 😭
Hey Fantano! Just wanted to let you know there was an edit mistake in your Uzi review. You meant to give it an 8/10 instead of a 5! Hope this helps and keep up the good work
Even if it was CS really takes like 2 points away at least
This song came on my shuffle yesterday at work while washing dishes & I ripped my gloves off so quick to change it when I realized the lyrics were just this the entire song
If Anthony ever makes a full cover of the song but with his own lyrics I’d scream
GEORGE FLOYD METROID
i know you feel bad melon, but you didn't have to whip out an instrument to apologize, we already have one of those
The thing that pisses me off the most bout the cover is they literally excluded the thing that made The original work: having the events in order. Why would anyone cover such a famous song but exclude the most important thing about it
Also 2 verses shorter
Also moment to have an actual take. Maybe some commentary would be a rendition called “We didn’t put out the fire” or something different idk