Fall Out Boy makes an updated version of WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

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featuring notable events such as "Robert Downey Jr. As Iron Man", "Twilight", "Balloon Boy"

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[quinzl13]

Didn’t this already exist on YouTube? I recall early lockdown days of making its way around the internet.

[sandstorm]

If they mention the Queen dying (in this one, truthfully I haven't listened to it in full without stopping and laughing), it was probably a different version.

[quinzl13]

I its a different version. I think they “wrote it” themselves it wasn’t meant to be like the parody. I went back to listen to the 2020 version by a comedian named Dylan White. It’s different.

This is a random nitpick but it seems they wrote down a bunch of things and sorted it out randomly. It’s not in any order. You go from Pokémon to impeachment to Kanye and Taylor to columbine.

Dylan white version it’s like line by line in chronological order. That’s much more satisfying than jumping back and forth.

[sandstorm]

Yeah I'm not even a Rock Purist or whatever but it flipping back and forth is jarring. I can understand if the rhyme just HAD to happen and things maybe a month apart were switched, but not this.

[buckyno]

I thought the original song was in chronological order so my first thought was that the order of events was pretty questionable in this version. Like referencing the death of the Queen before 9/11 seems like a big backward jump. But I guess it’s also a different perspective when living through the period.

[quinzl13]

There’s a version on YouTube by this guy named dylan white that actually goes in order. He made one through 2020 and one for 2020 alone.

[quaintcunt]

I'm annoyed they didn't do it in order.

My fun fact about myself is that I learned the whole (original) song for extra credit in AP World History

[fasterpssycat]

We sang it for a city choir performance when I was in elementary school in, like, 1990. I don't remember if we sang the "British politician sex" line or not.

[ladyjj]

Chronological order, motherfuckers, DO YOU KNOW IT?

#NobodyAskedForThis

[lanrek]

they may not have started it but they should definitely stop it