Fall Out Boy have released an updated version of Billy Joel‘s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ with headlines from the past 30 years.Joel’s 1989 Number one hit, ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’, includes brief references to 118 significant political, cultural and scientific events between the years of Joel’s birth in 1949 and the song’s release in 1989.Today (June 28), Fall Out Boy shared a modernised version of the track, replacing the original lyrics with standout events from where the song left off in 1989 to 2023.“I thought about this song a lot when I was younger.

All these important people and events – some that disappeared into the sands of time –others that changed the world forever,” shared the band on Twitter.“So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years – we felt like a little system update might be fun.

Hope you like our take on it,” they added.In the original track, the lyrics included: “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray / South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio / Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television / North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.” These have been swapped out in the Fall Out Boy version for: “Captain Planet, Arab Spring, LA riots, Rodney King, deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano, Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs.” You can read the full lyrics below.A post shared by Fall Out Boy (@falloutboy) ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ lyrics are: “Captain Planet, Arab Spring/L.A.

riots, Rodney King/Deep fakes, earthquakes/Iceland volcano/Oklahoma City bomb/Kurt Cobain, Pokémon/Tiger Woods, MySpace/Monsanto, GMOs/Harry Potter, Twilight/Michael Jackson dies/Nuclear accident/Fukushima, Japan/Crimean peninsula/Cambridge Analytica/Kim.

Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ with lyrics about news from 1989 to 2023

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