![]() ![]() Unnecessary, certainly, because it is Fall Out Boy singing “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” but appreciated. In a way, it was nice for Fall Out Boy to let us know right away that this is not a serious song. These bozos failed to master even that.īut yes, those are actual lyrics. “We Didn’t Start the Fire” has all the musical complexity of a nursery rhyme. That was the one rule Billy Joel made! Each verse was roughly one decade in American history. And like an angsty young teenager with attention deficit disorder, THEY CAN’T EVEN STICK TO A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. I know this because the lyrics are EXACTLY as bad as if an edgy 13-year-old had written them. ![]() ![]() This is a 1990s 7th-grade history assignment. You may be thinking to yourself, “wow, that sounds like an awful song.” But you’re wrong. Fall Out Boy, that band that shows up at various televised sporting events to make the world say, “hey, they still exist” before changing the channel, has cursed us with an updated version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” So, Fall Out Boy decided to update and somehow make worse the worst Billy Joel song and make it about whatever viral stuff Fall Out Boy could think of and/or find by Wikipedia’ing each decade. Geez, sorry, it’s taking me a minute to wrap my head around this. Fall Out Boy decided to cover Billy Joel.Īpologies, Fall Out Boy decided to cover the worst Billy Joel song, at least in the corners of his catalog where he does not pretend to be a Vietnam War veteran.Īpologies again, Fall Out Boy decided to update the worst Billy Joel song and make it about the past 30 years. This is a sentence I never thought I’d say, let alone write on a website with USA TODAY in the url. ![]()
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