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

Jun 28, 2023 11:37

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

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patrick stump / fall out boy, music / musician (pop), pete wentz, nostalgia / throwback

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quinzl13 June 28 2023, 18:16:29 UTC
Didn’t this already exist on YouTube? I recall early lockdown days of making its way around the internet.

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sandstorm June 28 2023, 18:21:49 UTC

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.

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quinzl13 June 28 2023, 18:28:27 UTC
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.

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sandstorm June 28 2023, 18:33:27 UTC

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.

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quinzl13 June 28 2023, 18:39:11 UTC
I agree they likely did it to rhyme but it still feels lazy when some random person on internet could pull it off.

They also seem to lean a little more heavily on pop culture than things of big historical impact.

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arabian June 28 2023, 18:59:06 UTC
Yeah, the point of Billy Joel's song wasn't about pop culture impact but was about WHAT THE SHIT IS GOING ON IN THIS FUCKING CRAZY WORLD?! and we gotta do our best to fight it! And here comes FOB singing the fuck about Taylor Swift and Spielberg? Whu huh? They did not understand the assignment.

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britty_stitches June 28 2023, 20:20:45 UTC
Theres also an extremely racist version floating around and I hate that I heard it. I dont understand how its still up.

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