Fall Out Boy cover of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire': See the new lyrics
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After Fall Out Boy released a cover of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," conversation continues around very mixed reactions to the remake, including some burning reviews.
The reason? Primarily the cover's lyrics.
Fall Out Boy's "We Didn't Start the Fire" has updated lyrics to include newsworthy events from 1989 - when Joel's original released - through 2023, with a slew of references like "World Trade," "Brexit," "Stranger Things," "Taylor Swift," "Obama," "Columbine," "Sandy Hook," "Twilight," "Tiger King" and "Michael Jordan 23" plus "Michael Jordan 45," among others.
Some notable happenings that called for major headlines in that time period, including the COVID-19 pandemic, were not mentioned. The references weren't made chronologically, either.
People have mixed feelings: Fall Out Boy covers Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
Read the full lyrics here, as shared by the band:
Fall Out Boy's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' cover full 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
YouTube 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"
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Fall Out Boy's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' cover: Read the full lyrics
