Fall Out Boy has launched a canopy of Billy Joel’s “We Did not Begin the Hearth,” full with up to date lyrics to replicate the historical past of the world from 1989 to the current.
Joel’s unique tune, a No. 1 hit, covers a large number of occasions from 1949 to the yr of its launch, 1989, identify checking historic and popular culture milestones from Harry Truman and Mickey Mantle to John Glenn and Richard Nixon. Should you skipped historical past class, the tune was a great place to brush up.
But it surely’s been greater than three many years since Joel schooled followers, so Fall Out Boy has supplied an replace. Of their model, which picks up the place Joel left off, the band references Kurt Cobain, Harry Potter, Donald Trump’s two-time impeachment, Brexit, George Floyd and Sandy Hook, amongst different newsworthy folks and locations. You may take heed to the observe beneath.
Joel’s “Rock and curler, cola wars / I can not take it anymore” turns into “Bush v Gore / I can not take it anymore” within the new model, and “JFK – blown away, what else do I’ve to say?” will get a Twenty first-century focus: “World Commerce – second airplane / What else do I’ve to say?“
The songwriter stated in 1994 that he’d been requested to think about writing a follow-up to “We Did not Begin the Hearth,” accounting for occasions that had occurred within the intervening years. “No,” he stated, “I wrote one tune already, and I do not suppose it was actually that good, to start with, melodically.”
Between the 2 variations, nearly 75 years of world historical past is now recounted.
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