AI Creates Stunning Music Video for Hit Billy Joel Song

This video is 🔥.

While AI-generated art certainly has its faults, there's a reason that it frequently goes viral.

One TikToker is capitalizing on the popularity of various AI trends in a new way by creating music videos for popular songs. User @digitalresonator uses a program called Midjourney to create them by feeding the lyrics to the program and then animating them to fit each track.

A video digitalresonator created featuring Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" has since racked up a million views and over 90 thousand likes.

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"I hope you guys like this one," they followed up in the comments. "It took a long time between the research, the length, and th[e] number of images."

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The sheer quantity of imagery required makes the video all the more impressive, flashing through intricate depictions of historical figures like John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and countless others, as well as historical events—some with fascinating interpretations, such as the inclusion of the more recent blocking by the Ever Given depicted during the line "trouble in the Suez."

But the most stunning visualizations come during the chorus, as the artwork flashes through varying imagery of firefighters battling blazes, innocent bystanders caught up in them, and the Earth propped up on flaming pedestals.

In short, the time spent on the video paid off.

"absolutely love it. thank you for all the hard work. some people don't realize what a history lesson/reminder this song is," one viewer wrote.

"This was just beautiful to experience. Really stunning. Thank you for putting the effort in," another comment read in part.

"I feel like this is the video Billy Joel wanted to do. This is perfection!!" said another.

"It’s really convinced the kids started the fire lol," one commenter wrote, referencing the number of children illustrated near open flames and starting a debate over the meaning of the lyrics.

"My interpretation is that the kids are there because they DIDNT light the fire. Every time it shows the kid the lyric is 'we didn’t start the fire,'" one reply read, with another agreeing, "Right! The kids didn’t start the fire but they are left to deal with the aftermath."

Many also called for revisions to the lyrics to cover more recent events of the last few decades–and we can't say we're not interested in hearing an updated version from the singer, too.

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