Kinda poetic how the original song mentions Queen Elizabeth starting her reign, while this one mentions her death

@rebekahmanning7934

5 ай бұрын

That may very well have something to do with their choice to cover this this year instead of waiting until 2029 which would have been another full 40 years like the original.

@koonuts3604

4 ай бұрын

There are a couple throwback mentions in the update to the original

@famlivingroom1790

4 ай бұрын

But no mention of Princess Diana 😔

@theguywhoasked5861

4 ай бұрын

Much like how this one mentions the rise of marvel via rdj and the next will mention the fall

@SamBryans128

3 ай бұрын

And they mention how there's still trouble in the Suez.

It is officially someone's artistic responsibility to continue this again in thirty years

@Ravenclaw2313

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. A song that should live and change forever.

@manic_moonlight11

10 ай бұрын

For real though...

@manic_moonlight11

10 ай бұрын

I look forward to listening to all 3 versions of I'm lucky enough

@marcchecks6105

10 ай бұрын

Literally was thinking that myself

@puppyhowler

10 ай бұрын

ever since i first heard we didn't start the fire i was HOPING that someone would make an updated version!

I actually like how it's not chronological. Really encapsulates how the last ten or so years have been a blur to me. I can't even remember the chronology of these events in my own lifetime, I just feel like everything's on fire.

@jeremiahgabriel5709

Ай бұрын

This is a great way to articulate it. I thought it was odd it wasn't in order....but how you described the sensation it gives, compared with my own life.... I agree.

@AAAAAAAA-ss6gn

28 күн бұрын

That was just part of the point of the original song. It doesn't make too much sense to claim how the last few decades have been a mess when the message was "No, things have always been a mess."

@BlueSpiritFire1

28 күн бұрын

@@AAAAAAAA-ss6gn I highly recommend thoroughly reading a comment before you decide to leave a response. I said decade, singular, not multiple decades. You can't say that my 'claims' are wrong, because they're my personal emotions and thoughts. I know things have always been a mess, but this is the mess that I have personally experienced in my lifetime, and I feel like the last ten years in particular have been particularly messy. Maybe I'll feel differently in another ten years time.

@loncleyaroctis6951

26 күн бұрын

Covid is missing 😂

@carimeslockdownedtree2654

26 күн бұрын

​@@loncleyaroctis6951 Well... There's already a We Didn't Start The Fire 2020 edition grkshd

The world is still turning. The world is still burning. See you all in 30 years, I’ll be 55 by then and I look forward to see how this all plays out. Stay safe everyone, pick your fights, living to tell the tale is more important than getting wrapped up in the whirlwind of everyone else’s despair. Take care of yourself and those you hold onto dearly. Be mindful and aware. Staying silent isn’t easy, but it’s easy to speak out and make a scene.

@apeirotopecrow7957

2 ай бұрын

hopefully you have better taste in music in 30 years

@HyperKilljoy112

2 ай бұрын

@@apeirotopecrow7957 Thank you, Next

@foxvel5027

Ай бұрын

Indeed. Still we need go forward and make a change, so unique for everyone, maybe so little and hilarious but worth-a-try one.

@ivarbjornson533

Ай бұрын

To stand by and do nothing when the world goes to ruin makes you complicit. At the very least we should all strive to do *something* to make the world less messed up. Like doing your damnedest to minimize unnecessary consumption.

@HyperKilljoy112

Ай бұрын

It’s quite hilarious how all I did was just say [what’s up above] and instead I get these threads of random comments that are super biased. Is it worth going out there and making a difference when that difference may have an impact on someone else? Doing nothing and not changing anything establishes consistency and less confusion. At the individual level it’s hard to accomplish anything these days. It seems to be necessary to victimize oneself to gain a group of blind supporters/followers to make anything happen. “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t”. I’m sure you’re familiar with that phrase.

"It was always burning" hits different when it's the second time this song has been done. It's nothing new, but it won't be ending soon

@Canda1400

10 ай бұрын

I started the fire

@NotThatUser

10 ай бұрын

@@merickbindrup What the hell are you on about? The whole thing is about the fact that “no one started the fire”. It’s about time. Ever since the world came into existence, ever since the entire UNIVERSE came into existence, the fire was always burning. Even after we’re long gone, after the Earth is gone, the fire will still burn. Burn, burn, and burn until there’s nothing left to burn.

@raffaeleandreozzi4271

10 ай бұрын

@@merickbindrupYou’re most likely a millenial or a gen z’er our generation was failed by the ones before us, its a historical cycle that unfortunately gets worse and worse as technology progresses

@inventions178

10 ай бұрын

​@@merickbindrupYou can never take responsibility for something you're born into. It's unnatural.

@tydangles13

10 ай бұрын

Oh it’s gonna be out soon, as history begins again

I like how in the old version it says: “we tried to fight it” but in this new version it says “we’re TRYING to fight it” that was a nice touch 😌

@MCDreng

10 ай бұрын

I've always sang "we're trying to fight it", this is the first I've heard that I got it wrong

@ctrlaltbreakify

10 ай бұрын

Right with you

@soul1984vic

10 ай бұрын

✊🏼

@unbroken1010

10 ай бұрын

They are Freemason Jesuit pawns

@Something_Unique_512

10 ай бұрын

We need a new version so much has happened in 3 years

WHY AM I JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS SONG *NINE* MONTHS LATER?! This song encapsulates what’s going through my mind. The wrong, the trending, the entertainment of the world. Some seen and some not. How me and others are trying to fix the spreading fire around the world. War in Afghanistan, bombs in Lebanon, but on the parallel iron man, and aliens. “What else do I have to say?” really hits too. What else do u have to say? The world is burning and we’re watching it happen, while some are trying to stop it. (this is super long but I’m going to listen to this song for eternity now, and the old one too. And yeah, no chronological order is a bit of a pet peeve, but the song is still great.)

@MyrnaJanePerez-us1st

27 күн бұрын

It sounds like “goodbye 2007” from jibjab

@sjm9876

27 күн бұрын

I just found out about it today too!

@silly_on_

26 күн бұрын

Check out "That Funny Feeling" by Bo Burnham

@djmeowzz

26 күн бұрын

@@silly_on_ will do 👍

@gavinlopez6258

26 күн бұрын

I'm confused why they didn't mention the collapse of the Soviet Union

As a millennial the first song's theme never really 'clicked'. I understood the concept - the world keeps turning despite the whole world feeling like it's engulfed in fire, but that's just the way the world is, generation after generation, we didn't start it, and neither did our parents generation. But it wasn't until right now, today, that this song hit me in a way that the original never could. I lived through all but a few of these. These are childhood memories, things that are engrained in my memories as watching it happen live. My Homeroom teacher came into the library one day in middle school and abruptly announced "We've just been attacked" and immediately pulled out the TV and turned on the news. I watched the second plane hit live from my middle school library, Ender's Game in my lap. I grew up watching Captain Planet, and SpongeBob, and Jordan play for the Bulls, and listening to Jackson stun the world with his pop music. This summed up the world around my life. And it hits, hard. Because it's been a sh*tshow for most of the time. And it provided a sense of peace and hope in thr future to know that the world's always been on fire like this. This isn't new. And life goes on. I hope Gen Z / Gen Alpha get their own version in a couple of decades. Because you can't truly feel this song until it echoes your existence.

@YoMamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Ай бұрын

90s gen and younger will remember the world being stacked against us, economy's unliveable unless you make or break above the cost of living (wherever you are). The government/corpo scene works actively to divide the people for their own profits. Education has failed us, politically right is more important than factual right. People are too sensitive with "its your with us or against" leading to witch hunts. Tolerance weakened people, women asking for equal rights but not equal responsibilities and end up favored more, being born a man in this times is a struggle. Then there's the looming threat if we get to live a normal life tomorrow because the lunatics with power has some nasty toys that broke Tokyo and Nagasaki.

@munsterlandr1644

Ай бұрын

Honestly, this overlaps with a lot of the gen Z experience, too. 9/11 certainly was before my time per se, but hearing of the news of a full on insurrection, or the extension of 2020 spring break for a long time before we moved to online, or so many other things have hit that same way.

@kimjoromo3519

Ай бұрын

This kind of feels shallow...

@TheEnder515

Ай бұрын

I was young for 9/11 - still in preschool - but I remember the terror. Not understanding why my mom kept telling me to watch the skies or why she seemed so concerned with the plane hitting that building. I remember the Boston Bombing; a friend from overseas started spamming my phone because he wasn't sure how far Boston was from Long Island or how large the explosion was. I might be on the older side of gen z, but most of this was my lived experience. And it hits.

@lacielaucht4833

Ай бұрын

Me sitting here wondering why it hit so hard and you summed it up perfectly. I heard the original for the first time in like 1st grade, and got the message, but this had me crying.

Definitely bothers me that this isn't ordered chronologically (like Joel's original was), but _"World Trade, second plane - what else do I have to say?"_ is an incredible line to end on. That said, FOB could have easily borrowed the "wars" rhyme of the '89 ending and closed out theirs with, _"Never ending culture wars, I can't take it anymore."_ I mean. It's right there, guys.

@kylebogden5365

10 ай бұрын

It’s about the rhymes and making it flow

@kylebogden5365

10 ай бұрын

It isn’t history class, it’s music. Sorry

@FireStriker_

10 ай бұрын

@@kylebogden5365look up the original, it was order by era

@lumariadp

10 ай бұрын

@@kylebogden5365 Okay, but Billy Joel managed the exact same thing and almost all of it was chronological. It's possible.

@kylebogden5365

10 ай бұрын

Well are people really trying to hold a light from fall out boy to billy Joel?

Can we please introduce the tradition that, every few decades, someone sums up everything that's happening in the world, with this song

@just_cheese9121

10 ай бұрын

Yes

@RLDO

10 ай бұрын

Yes

@blackswan3585

10 ай бұрын

The next decade's will just be 3:33 of dead silence.

@bee2492

10 ай бұрын

@@blackswan3585just the occasional scream to break it up

@Restrodsworth

10 ай бұрын

No let’s not please.

Honestly, this kinda made me cry..(granted I'm 26 and have no actual connections to the original)..but the change up of the last Line "But when we are gone, it will still burn on and on"... From "Will it still burn on and on?" Was powerful XD

@thassalantekreskel5742

Ай бұрын

In a sense, the change in the lyrics can be seen as hopeful. After all this chaos, we're still here, and unlike last time, despite it all, we can be fairly sure that in another 30 years, we will be here still.

@parkercushingable

Ай бұрын

The original was used a lot in high school history classes as a tool to touch on tons of history topics in the 20th century. Although in the original each verse was decade specific from the 50s - 80s and a heavy emphasis on cold War topics.

@wrangchops

21 күн бұрын

The world will always turn on. And life will go on.

@Coffeeology

20 күн бұрын

47 yo here... The 1st one was a bit too "old" for me when it dropped, but this, I remember all of these.

I get an emotional and physical response from this cover. It hits harder because I’ve lived through all of these events and people. Great update to the song.

I feel like the lyrics of this song should get an update every 20-30 years.

@jtscott3849

5 ай бұрын

With how fast shiz is happening the next update should be 10 years for the next one.

@vernen8385

5 ай бұрын

​@@jtscott3849fr

@nickcleary3023

5 ай бұрын

Yeah same! I like this version better. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

@Simipourfangirl

5 ай бұрын

I agree 100% and this is probably the most creative cover. Instead of just repeating the same lyrics, they updated it.

@shrishauchil1892

4 ай бұрын

Imagine...this Song can create History by going on forever and ever with New Versions coming out every 2 decades !! Makes sense to keep it topical as future Generations won't connect with what's recent..

"JFK blown away, What else do i have to say" has to be the most poignant line in the original verson, as well as the most significant tragic event in most people lives of that generation, with 9/11 being my generations. "World Trade, Second plane" sure hit me right in the gut.

@Momsyoutubecoup

10 ай бұрын

I had the same reaction. I heard it on TikTok last night and appreciated it, but watching that line come across the screen this morning made me tear up. I was 7 when that happened and it’s one of the first moments I realized life was not going to be as enjoyable as the grownups tried to tell me it would be. I know most of us can agree there.

@alynnwisniewski

10 ай бұрын

I got literal chills. Been a while since that happened.

@becomingnursechyna

10 ай бұрын

Yea same, I was boppin hard and that line broke me ☹️❤️

@samanthadavis8349

10 ай бұрын

Sandy Hook and Columbine literally sent chills through my body

@chronicpixel8

10 ай бұрын

​@@samanthadavis8349 meee toooo 😢

I think it's an unspoken rule that somebody, somewhere, wakes up one day and suddenly realizes they have the responsibility of re-creating this song. and the cycle will continue every 20 years.

God bless Fall Out Boy for being the voices of our generation!!!

I was frozen and in a cube for 34 years. Im glad i am now caught up. Thanks fall out boy.

@killgoretrout877

10 ай бұрын

and they somehow omitted the biggest world event that happen 3 years ago

@warppizza

10 ай бұрын

who thawed you out?

@kentuckyfried9499

10 ай бұрын

@@warppizza Ironically Canadians.

@Afflictamine

10 ай бұрын

@@killgoretrout877 and conveniently never mentioned Epstein

@spoonified52

10 ай бұрын

I am actually looking forward for a band that hasn't been born yet doing there version covering 2023-2057 events

I hope this becomes a tradition among the music industry, to make an update to this song every 25 - 30 years or so.

@Sashowindfeather

10 ай бұрын

It would be a great Legacy for BIlly Joel, cause i dig the original, and this one.

@DragonXBird

9 ай бұрын

It is a good way for people to look up events in the previous years. It would also be good for music artists who are interested.

@austinreed7343

9 ай бұрын

Maybe do versions for events prior to the start of the original song?

@ireneebekker4886

9 ай бұрын

YESS!!!

@Music-tk5oq

9 ай бұрын

It has already with 2004 , parody of 1985

SSRIs 😂 as someone who has been prescribed them since I was 17 I don't know weither to laugh or cry 😂

“World trade ,second plane, what else do I have to say” 🔥🔥🔥

Shows how ironically how accurate the ending lines are of "But when we are gone, it will still burn on and on" of the original song and this song. Cause the fire just keeps on going.

@FenrirsBeta

6 ай бұрын

Which is why in another 30-40 years, we need the third song in this series. The fire won't stop, history won't stop, and we need some way to record all of it and these songs are a fun and great way to do so.

@AlexCentury

5 ай бұрын

I didn’t get this song until now tbh

@nickcleary3023

5 ай бұрын

Yeah totally true!

@canceledlogic7656

5 ай бұрын

If it makes you feel better, birth rates have collapsed. So a few more generations and it can finally be snuffed out

@defectivesickle5643

4 ай бұрын

​@@canceledlogic7656That ain't how humans are going extinct

My grandma is a boomer and she was alive during all the events of the first song, and it blows my mind that I was able to live through half of the events listed in this song while she lived through both songs

@MsThebeMoon

9 ай бұрын

Thanx. This glamma is now feeling a bit old. 😉

@chrisharwood5448

9 ай бұрын

All of this song.

@sammfabish5230

9 ай бұрын

My parents are boomers and I have lived through every single thing in this song.

@timsawyer9231

9 ай бұрын

@@sammfabish5230 Same. I lived through a little of the first one too... Not that I remember any of it, but I was there!!! haha

@marklanzer1822

9 ай бұрын

​​@@timsawyer9231I was born in October 1989, I missed the cutoff on the first song events by the shortest of margins. The Berlin Wall first got torn down when I was only a couple months old. Billy Joel's last song he ever performs live should be his version of his creation and if it takes two hours to perform that'd be the way to go out. I'm a lifelong Long Islander it's basically NY State law for every resident of Nassau and Suffolk County to be a Billy Joel fan here. FOB did a good job covering this but the original is the best

It is amazing how a list (clearly done right) has such an impact. Thank you for updating it and I agree with others who have commented, I feel like every generation needs to update it. Good job Fall Out Boy!

Fkn love this!!!! I dance around the house!! Then start rave pushing and kicking! MY KITCHEN HAS SEEN IT all😂

This song hits different when you are actually familiar with most of the events listed.

@littlefloof6184

10 ай бұрын

This is to true

@ceejo8075

10 ай бұрын

this AND the original...

@pengineman2229

10 ай бұрын

Congrats you live in the world

@Jackmcnaul

10 ай бұрын

Or it hits exactly as it should as it’s the point of the song…

@KeimoKissa

10 ай бұрын

@@Jackmcnaul But the song only hits because you know the events mentioned (Because the song is nothing but those events). The original song doesn't hit as hard nowadays, when those events aren't very recent...

This song is way more morbid when you’ve actually live through the events

@marcosjimenez2793

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, when he said Abe blown away all I thinks was, "well damn".

@z3ndigital873

10 ай бұрын

And even more morbid thinking as a Gen X and living through both Billy Joel’s version and now this .. The world needs to change

@mettatheone1705

10 ай бұрын

​@@marcosjimenez2793 I thought it was JFK blown away

@nicholasszczepanski8501

10 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what I as thinking “man, we have seen some shit” haha

@jacobswartz1061

10 ай бұрын

@@z3ndigital873 yeah I couldn’t imagine living through two different we didn’t start the fire versions

The only song that needs an update every couple of decades

Fall Out Boy is such a underrated band. This is a cover but they definetly put their own sound to this classic. The new lyrics really fit well. They did a great job.

This song is proof that time doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but often rhymes

@learn2farm509

8 ай бұрын

Well when lineages get multi-generational hooks on power over nearly half the globe again and again haha... How long has the dragon families been in control of china... An how long has a loosely connected web of deep state aristocracy hidden in the shadow of western government and monopolistic industry? Prolly a long long while at least since we started hearing about it directly from no nonsense presidents like Eisenhower an then the assassination of one who promised to rip them out by the roots?

@GuyMcPherson69

8 ай бұрын

Agreed

@sarysa

8 ай бұрын

Literally.

@Matanumi

8 ай бұрын

Welp.... with a rhythm of the same beat...

@leahbaer1903

8 ай бұрын

No history does repeat itself because most people are dumb and forget things that happened not too long ago. They don't rhyme they literally just change the name of something and then sell it back to people. For example a viral pneumonia wad renamed H1N1 then SARS & now Covid and the never ending "new" strains lol just like they said it came out of the Wuhan lab and everyone lost their mind people really believed that eating bats would cause a coronavirus? LOL I'm old enough to know that they said someone got bit by a monkey which they said started AIDS now we all know that wasn't true. Some history always repeats itself over and over but because people are ignorant and think they know everything they don't realize we've already been through all this before they're just calling it something different this time

you see this is actually a legal response to burning their records in the “light em’ up” video

@superksquad1

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it also shows that this is the best Fall Out Boy song ever

@poppinshiran

11 ай бұрын

IM SCREMAIFNFBFFBDNDJ

@superksquad1

11 ай бұрын

This comment is doing better then the video lol 😅

@superksquad1

11 ай бұрын

100 likes wow

@darthrevan2957

11 ай бұрын

1 hour in and already found what's gonna be the most liked comment..... Nice

Is it weird that I was born in the 2000s and yet feel a lot more connection to the original version

@DarthLetalis

2 ай бұрын

Because the original wasn't infected with an ideology

@racingraptor4758

Ай бұрын

Yea​@@DarthLetalis

@kooken58

Ай бұрын

@@DarthLetalis Apparently listing off well known figures, significant events, and media in the recent past is somehow pushing out an ideology.

@caroleem1015

29 күн бұрын

No same. Not hating on this version, but it seems to just list off a lot of celebrities, while the other did more historical events that still affect us today.

This wasn't what I was looking for, but damn glad to have found it! It is great!

One day there will be a playlist with nothing but different versions of this.

@angus4202

9 ай бұрын

fuck that there will be a whole album

@angus4202

9 ай бұрын

with several volumes spanning several millenia

@anoelhill

9 ай бұрын

True that. If I don't hear another version of this I'll be upset. The og and this one are so good

@unicron2109

9 ай бұрын

A.I will make a million different versions of this and everything else

@gyan1010

9 ай бұрын

I can only hope that we haven't all killed each other or the planet in another 30, 60, or 90 years

Finally, a Fall Out Boy song that mentions Michael Keaton, SpongeBob, Metroid, Kanye West, Captain Planet, Kurt Cobain, Iron Man and Taylor Swift (and so on and so forth). What a crossover.

@ErickVideoGameGuy

11 ай бұрын

With Avengers Endgame we thought we had it all, until Fall Out Boy made the biggest crossover ever, hopefully Nintendo doesn't sue them for mentioning Metroid.

@CinderUnit

11 ай бұрын

​@@ErickVideoGameGuyIf Fall Out Boy gets taken down by Nintendo then Fall Out Boy is canon in Smash. I mean does anyone remember Nintendo Fusion tours?

@shotgunmasterQL

11 ай бұрын

Is Metroid reference to the game series? Because that's the first thing I thought of, but felt it would be weird or just my own bias since there were no other game related things mentioned, so just throwing in "Metroid" was surprising 😅

@youremom420

10 ай бұрын

​@@shotgunmasterQLpokemon

@IPATBB

10 ай бұрын

Hey @ScoutSunset ! Funny seeing my subscribers here hahaha

They did a darned good job packing so many events into a 3-minute song.

I am surprised how they didn't mention COVID.

@gwenmloveskpopcecmore

3 ай бұрын

They said Rona

@736693

Ай бұрын

Rona was Olivia Newton John’s sister.

Interesting take on a classic. This song should be retold every few generations to let them know that the fire will always burn and to always fight back.

@bobf.5538

10 ай бұрын

Billy told his in 4 minutes years from now it might end up being 8 or 9 minutes

@BarbadosBeerFestival

10 ай бұрын

Was saying the same thing while watching.

@Just_be_kind

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@Husker_XIII

10 ай бұрын

Di... did this become a tradition? If so I am all for it!

@crptnite

10 ай бұрын

Please stop saying it will "always burn." That type of defeatist attitude is precisely why the enemy has been winning.

My biggest issue with the song is how the original actually moves through time and list the event in order as they happened but this one just names random things from different years in no particular order

@h0m3st4r

5 ай бұрын

Precisely the biggest criticism from critics and fans alike when this version first came out, along with excluding COVID-19.

@waggz04

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely, Right away I saw how random this one was. I lived through a good bit of the first one as well.

@Beaches_south_of_L.A.

5 ай бұрын

I think that is completely irrelevant. They had a definitive time frame and a huge list of events and milestones then they had to put them all together to make them sound good. I think they were brilliant. If they had to follow a time line they wouldn't be able to follow themes or group like events, ie- Prince and the queen died or MJ 23 blah blah blah MJ 45... I think they were smart grouping clusters rather than a linear time-line. I think that would've ruined it.

@markweiher7619

5 ай бұрын

If they were good songwriters, they would have been able to pull it off. Just random events that are scattered around 30 years. @@Beaches_south_of_L.A.

@TheLime69

5 ай бұрын

@@markweiher7619 I both agree and disagree on 1 hand if it went in order like the original then future listeners can draw a line from point A to B in terms of when these events happened making it more of a time capsule in song form, on the other the randomness kinda fits for the current era we are in, so much has happened to quickly, its hard to keep track of what happened when, in that sense its more of a representation of how we felt about how the past 30ish years flew by and just how chaotic it all was

I have to admit that FOB did a great job "rebooting" this song while respecting it to match our generation's cultural impacts.

This was awesome!! Genius! Thank you guys soo much I'm 52 and love the billy joel one. I always hoped someone somewhere would do a remix/ rewrite/ update pop culture that explains us. Please someone do their version just dont wait 34 yrs. Maybe 20. THANK YOU FALL OUT BOYS so much wonder creativity.!!!!!!!

It almost feels like a continuation more than it does a cover. Extremely well done. We Didn't Start the Fire is one on my all-time favorite songs.

@rymle

10 ай бұрын

This ain't a cover bro. This is a sequel.

@PILOSOPAUL

10 ай бұрын

@@rymle 0:04 it literally says that it is a cover tho

@kbanghart

10 ай бұрын

​@@PILOSOPAULI mean, I suppose you could consider it both? Just say it sampled the first, with new lyrics

@vasuba

10 ай бұрын

@@rymle Its a poorly done sequel. The original song was a timeline of events. not just random stuff thrown at the wall

@MichaelJDMusic

10 ай бұрын

I completely agree! People nitpick things WAY too damn much!

I liked the part when fall out boy said “it’s morbin time” during the second verse truly brings back memories of one of the moments in human history.

@shanebrennan9874

10 ай бұрын

🤓

@MalevolenceX3

10 ай бұрын

How dare you, my friend sent this to me saying it was awful and this comment was the one thing I was looking forward to

@kamikatze6517

10 ай бұрын

Am i stupid or do i just overhear it every single time?

@justAman548

10 ай бұрын

Truly one of the movies of all time

@wiliboi2662

10 ай бұрын

This meme is not funny anymore

Thanks for the historical update! I'd love to see a live performance of this song with you guys and Billy Joel - that would be EPIC!

This was one if my favorite songs growing up. I had the cassette single and played it over and over, now I'm playing this over and over! GREAT JOB!!!!!

Imagine how frustrating it must be for a fortuneteller in 1988 if all they had was this song to go by.

@PolarBearChoujin2470

10 ай бұрын

They'd be wondering what the heck spongebob and pokemon are!😂

@Nan-1017

10 ай бұрын

@@PolarBearChoujin2470🤣😂 funny!

@stevenkyle2313

10 ай бұрын

Best comment 😂

@leeatkin9925

10 ай бұрын

And the fear of the bombings, random cities (how could they be important?), and is the world tower/second plane related or just two ideas that happen to be placed together

@therealskull4786

10 ай бұрын

especially because the events don't go in order like Billy Joel's do

I would love to see both Fall Out Boy and Billy Joel do both versions of the song together.

@kristinacrawford8826

10 ай бұрын

Omggggggg 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

@robertsmith2879

10 ай бұрын

Hell yeah I would love that

@chrishenning8829

10 ай бұрын

Someone make this happen!

@kristentejera7160

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!

@berserkermongoose

10 ай бұрын

This would be great as a superbowl halftime show

I think i speak for everybody when i say "Thank you for keeping this master piece alive". 🔥👌

@theunholybanana4745

Ай бұрын

You do not

@l-plef4969

Ай бұрын

​@@theunholybanana4745but whyyy, this is gold :o

Billie Joel sees this as one of his worst melody's believe it or not.

@musicalsand-axolotls7

Ай бұрын

Bro what? Where did he say that, lol?

@nicolobarbato6471

Ай бұрын

True

@sinnerdegarah1952

Ай бұрын

Ironic, it’s up there with every other melody he’s written.

@BOTTLEMAN-dl6rh

Ай бұрын

@@musicalsand-axolotls7 it was a show he did recently. lemme try and find a link to the clip for ya

@clementine2234

Ай бұрын

​@@BOTTLEMAN-dl6rhdid you ever find the clip

One thing I appreciate about the new version of we didn’t start the fire is that they changed a part of the chorus. I could wax poetic about what they altogether changed in the song, but to me it’s so meaningful that they changed “no, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it” to “no, we didn’t light it, but we’re trying to fight it” And maybe that speaks for itself.

Since I was born after the original came out, it hit different knowing that I‘ve been alive to witness almost all of the things mentioned…

@bowtoy

10 ай бұрын

I was here for both

@It-is-me...Melsie

10 ай бұрын

The original actually meant something and the song made sense.

@Krispy_Top_Hat

10 ай бұрын

I was in tears due to this very same reason.

@notmadheardthingsinhell8079

10 ай бұрын

Boomers brainwashed me into thinking I was there for Sixties. So it practically felt like both. The Greatest Generation, on the other hand, not much to tell me. I am still annoyed about this.

@msrtoday

10 ай бұрын

Agree with you - Now imagine being 70 years old and all the events, misdeeds, memes, violent interactions, cultural statements and the rest that have occurred in that time span....

I've been waiting for a remake this is so beautiful

This song is fire! Great stuff - It's been on my replay constantly 💪

I always used to say to my dad, "Imagine how much could be added to this song today." Now I no longer have to.

@GregKeaton

10 ай бұрын

You can always expect better, however.

@gcnj973

9 ай бұрын

Soo cool song update on 2022 😊😊😊

@jaypence332

9 ай бұрын

Poe Francis got snubbed. Floyd Mayweather.

@PuffleFuzz

9 ай бұрын

@@jaypence332Chernobyl got snubbed in the OG

@frostfamily5321

9 ай бұрын

​@@GregKeaton I *so* agree, I think they forgot / did not know about Depp V. Heard, The U.S. Capital Building riot, and Chlorine Con!

Problem is these days we could write a rendition of this song each month Edit: Before yet another person points it out - yes, I know this is history. I know what the song means. I was making a joke. It's because you can pack so much stuff into a song due to having more news and social media then ever, that every thing that's happens is publicized as a huge event. It is a _joke_ holy shit. Bloody hell, I had to analyze the entire song (Original) for a college research paper. "Kids these days" are not stupid.

@sub-brotherhood8990

10 ай бұрын

The Cold war it was every week the 90s could've been every day

@ucnguyen6375

10 ай бұрын

because it has always burning since the world started turning

@ele8610

10 ай бұрын

You could when the original was written, that was Billy Joel's point. Bad things will always happen and they'll keep happening

@andrewsqual

10 ай бұрын

Except 99% of that "monthly" news would be misinformation and made up crap lol. You thinking it's all actual real news is EXACTLY the problem today.

@camobranson09

10 ай бұрын

My dude... the song has a major point: "It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin" You can pluck any 30 or 50 year period from history and garner enough events to remake this song (preferably in the same fashion but a genre befitting the times). History doesn't repeat itself... but it does often rhyme.

Billy Joel is ethnically Jewish, grew up non-religious. At age 11, Billy Joel was baptised in a Church of Christ in Hicksville, unfortunately now he identifies as an atheist.

Excellent update, thanks.

I'm a little surprised that COVID didn't make it into the song somehow, but it's great to have this updated to things I've lived through in my life ('87 East Germany right here) I also think it's hilarious that something happened in the Suez canal AGAIN to have it perfectly fit in the song. That darn ship was so meme-worthy and made quarantine a little more bearable.

@pzzldmom

10 ай бұрын

Because it only went to about 2010. Joel didn't go to the most current year either.

@seraphimvalkyrin4543

10 ай бұрын

​@pzzldmom I mean the intro does say from "1989 - 2023". And it does mention both of Trumps impeachments so it does use events after Covid started.

@kristinakrickbaum1546

10 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. COVID was a huge impact and I'm really surprised it wasn't included.

@pzzldmom

10 ай бұрын

@@seraphimvalkyrin4543 fair point.

@infinite683

10 ай бұрын

I’m assuming it’s only including events solely caused by humans?

The video really complements with the fast-paced and chaotic music. “World Trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?” Is probably the best ending there could possibly have been. Hell of a song.

@unbroken1010

10 ай бұрын

Wtc was our own government

@heavydfunk

10 ай бұрын

You misspelled "tasteless."

@Jouninbaka

10 ай бұрын

tbh the ending had me cackling

@WhiteBuddha

10 ай бұрын

Right before that verse I was thinking "they're going to have to mention 9/11....oh there it is"

@gavinthroop2839

10 ай бұрын

@@heavydfunk in the original song it says “JFK Blown away”, so it only makes sense.

Love it!

Maybe I’m just high, but I hope to live long enough to see a third iteration of this song happen within my lifetime. Granted, I was too young to really understand the original when it came out, but I was alive for it. Maybe if I make it another 34 years or so then I’ll be able to.

This song has so so much more meaning now that I’m older and now that this version includes events I’ve actually lived through. I won’t lie, this made me tear up for some reason.

@julianasalaz5250

9 ай бұрын

Can I say my only complaint is a lot of these events are out of order...

@williamsherry5009

9 ай бұрын

​@@julianasalaz5250Billy Joel's wasn't in order either

@sammfabish5230

9 ай бұрын

Full. Body. Chills.

@Terk131

9 ай бұрын

I lived thru both versions events

@BenRicoMusic

9 ай бұрын

@@julianasalaz5250stop complaining then, it rhymes!☝🏼😇

It’s driving me absolutely insane that this isn’t in chronological order

@decoroman4981

9 ай бұрын

Same!!!

@SkyweaverFPV

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it bothered me too , but it's difficult to do that and keep the flow and rhyming scheme.

@decoroman4981

9 ай бұрын

@@SkyweaverFPV kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZatouMieerSyd7w.htmlsi=PjhH3oEzx1XV1B7_ They did it.

@VigilanteVegan

9 ай бұрын

Is the original?

@SkyweaverFPV

9 ай бұрын

@@VigilanteVegan mostly

i cant believe you guys did this, your fuckn awesome

This is so good

Such a small change, but the "we're trying to fight it" line makes me feel more hopeful, I love it.

@flashwashington2735

7 ай бұрын

Or more desperate. I'll try and fight it, I hope I make it, but I got a fall back plan. Way, way, way back!!!

@Psydkik

6 ай бұрын

Wasn't that in the original?

@juliosalas6455

6 ай бұрын

​@@Psydkikit was "we tried to fight it"

@akblkbear

6 ай бұрын

Made me tear up a bit tbh.

@derp8748

6 ай бұрын

Fighting Fraud '20 currently. Anyone doesn't see it is 100%delusional. Corporate establishment Is in control and by comparison, Trumps a small patriot NOT Big money, oh well, Enjoy '24. It's happnin.

As a child of the 80's, student of history, who remembers the first Billy Joel song, and saw the planes hit the towers in college. You lads did this song so much justice. You even dug up the not so popular but still impactful moments.

@finlay4277

4 ай бұрын

Injustice*

@primmny1107

4 ай бұрын

​@@finlay4277 *Justice

@AHoundOnAHonda

3 ай бұрын

You can't write '80s properly, though.

@finlay4277

3 ай бұрын

@@primmny1107 It's not even in chronological order, and they rhymed George Floyd with Metroid, a game which released before the original song. The writing is lazy and to be honest, shockingly awful

@primmny1107

3 ай бұрын

@@finlay4277 I can guarantee if the the Billy Idol version wasn't in order then you wouldn't be bitching.

This was SO beautifully done!!! From the lyrics re-write to the actual performance, THIS is how a cover should be done!!

Thank you for acknowledging the OKC bombing at the very start. We often feel ignored here.

@crankymcgee

12 күн бұрын

They really had to throw in Columbine, after studies have shown this exact type of shit influences copycats.

I remember literally all of the events in this song. I remember a good bit of what's in the original, too, & knew of all of what happened even tho a lot was before I was born. My only criticism is that it's not chronological, unlike the original. But my daughter pointed out that it kinds works due to how chaotic it's all been.

@shaunmia3817

10 ай бұрын

It sort of doesn’t feel like time moves linearly anymore anyway :/

@greggreg772

10 ай бұрын

I myself was also unsatisfied with how un-chronological it was, and me and a friend attempted to think of a version that is in proper chronological order. And we just couldn't find a line that even hit a quarter as hard as "World Trade, second plane, what else do I have to say?" The song also sounds just way more chaotic with how everything is un-chronological, especially with the line of "we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it". Everything is so chaotic and us as a collective is trying to fight against the chaos, despite that, we can't, the fire still burns.

@AndrewVan07

10 ай бұрын

Congratulations, you live on earth.

@OnlyTwoShoes

10 ай бұрын

It's lazy, that's why it's not in chronological order. Just words referencing things that happened. No emotion, no talent. Nostalgia bate has been cringe for a while now.

@iciclecold2991

10 ай бұрын

Smart daughter

This is legendary. Thank you Billy Joel, thank you Fall Out Boy

Brilliant ❤

Can't decide if this song feels like depression knowing how bad the world is at times or if it's humorous. (specifically the line about the cubs as a professional cubs hater)

Didn't know I needed this but I really did. I understand this isn't in chronological order like the original but that doesn't bother me. It makes sense because it just feels like one thing after another in a whirlwind. This is going to be stuck in my head all day now

@isaacschauer8136

10 ай бұрын

Plus it connected the parts so they felt like this was the piece that mixed with that

@Liberperlo

10 ай бұрын

Yes the past few decades are one big blur

@melissagladstone5968

10 ай бұрын

The original isn't one hundred percent in chronological order either, just more so than this one.

I like the lyric change from, “we tried to fight it,” to, “we’re trying to fight it.” We lived and are living through these events, all the while we try to fight it.

@notchunglingsu7014

7 ай бұрын

you are on youtube

@jakovasaur

7 ай бұрын

Fight what exactly?

@Luvilli

7 ай бұрын

​@@jakovasaurthe fire lol

@Silly1336

7 ай бұрын

@@jakovasaurthe shiet show left for newer generations

@flashwashington2735

7 ай бұрын

Joel's is a song about past struggles, because young men he met, thought he had such a stress free world stage for his youth. Fight is last tense as it should be. Now you didn't start the fire you will fight it is also appropriate. It's the passing of the baton. Carrying the fight forward. Too many critics. Not enough critical thinking. Billy Joel covered 40 to 80 years?

Someones gotta fill me in on why Metroid got a mention? Is it just that it got more new games than it usually does?

Yes. And in 33 years, someone else is gonna do another cover of "We Didn't Start The Fire" with all the insane newsworthy stuff from between 2023-2058

@JSSMVCJR2.1

3 күн бұрын

we'll see about that.

I'm 44 and I have lived through this entire era of this updated song. It's scary to think back on life since 1989. Nice continuation of a great classic.

@rochellee.pigman6495

10 ай бұрын

Imagine living through both versions.

@ahouais5620

10 ай бұрын

This version is very much american centered though, and some stuff are not mentionned and should be, like 911 or the terrorist attacks in France

@ryanchlebek8864

10 ай бұрын

@@ahouais5620911 was mentioned. It was the last lyric before “what else do i have to say”

I love how they not only make amazing rock music of their own but also pay tribute to the classics that came before them with things like this and the people they had on albums like Save Rock and Roll. I love your music so much!

Great work Fall out Boy. I love it. I was born in 1970, so I could only relate to some of the original. I love your updated version.

so glad fall out boy was with me thru my entire childhood lol every song is like finding gold

I love that Fall Out Boy didn't just use the original lyrics but remastered it for the current generations. Good on them.

@mattint0sh

10 ай бұрын

I live in, don't know why the critics are giving this song negative reviews, Billy Joel even liked it

@edwardcannon9199

10 ай бұрын

@@mattint0sh probably because the events aren't in chronilogical order as well as Billy Joels version

@mattint0sh

10 ай бұрын

@@edwardcannon9199 hey I just like the smg, that's good enough for me

@kruggyy

9 ай бұрын

@@mattint0shBecause fall out boy sucks

@mattint0sh

9 ай бұрын

@@kruggyy then how are they still together if they “suck”

I loved this song as a kid but only understood some of the references. This new version? I lived through it all, and some of these mentions I'd forgotten about until I saw it in the song. There's a lot that hit me, both the big moments and the small, silly ones. As others have said, this is a song that begs to be updated every once in a while. This is a fantastic new version.

@seawolf4846

10 ай бұрын

Same here...I remember a fair few of these events myself.

@saggypickle5851

10 ай бұрын

We had to make one at the end of this last school year for AP US History from only events from out lifetime (2005 - Current) We were up until like 3am writing lyrics

@Bard420

10 ай бұрын

I’m 22 but there are some on here I genuinely have no memory of

@glamourchick21

10 ай бұрын

I was born in 1986, so this is basically summing up the major events of my entire life:

@Robert_Douglass

10 ай бұрын

​@@saggypickle5851Your history teacher made you write a sequel to Billy Joel's magnum opus? What grade did you earn for it?

Absolute banger, coming from someone born in 91, it’s my life !

imagine hearing this in 1989 and having no idea what all this means

I like it!! The only thing I can nitpick is that the events are not in order of when they accrued like in the Billy Joel song. This is great!

@kablutoxyz

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, it bothers me.

@sharokgg8376

11 ай бұрын

Did Billy Joel sing them in alphabetical order? I seem to remember the Bridge on the River Kwai being sung after a lot of events contemporary to him. Unless he meant the movie? Even so, I like this cover.

@GoMJB12

11 ай бұрын

@@sharokgg8376 Chronological order of the events occurring, by decade.

@sharokgg8376

11 ай бұрын

@@GoMJB12 I wasn't aware of that. That's pretty cool! Thanks.

@ElementHypnosis

11 ай бұрын

I think that's because fob have tried to link things to the original song too, like ever given suez being linked with trouble in the suez from the original

The original by Billy Joel is one of my favourite songs ever. I have been saying for SO many years that someone should do an up-to-date version of it, and I was so happy when I first heard this version! I really hope that Fall Out Boy and Billy Joel perform together someday and sing both versions back to back. Also, I especially love the little homages to the original in the lyrics here - especially "Ever Given Suez" referencing "Trouble in the Suez" - genius!

@SonicGamerGirl2006

Ай бұрын

I'd like to see an extended version of the song, too. 😊😁

@T-Dawg75

Ай бұрын

I would love to see Fall out boy do a Super Bowl halftime show or Something, and have Joel crash it, do a modern hit, and end with a mashup of both artists versions of not starting thy fire.

@pi3.14etc

Ай бұрын

I can't remember where I saw this but im pretty sure someone said earlier they were actually performing them together soon (don't hold me to this)

We all know Ryan started the fire…

Oh yea! Seequil. Well done boys!

Holy hell. Is this how our parents felt hearing the original? I just saw my entire life flash by in every line. I can't even describe how it feels to watch this.

@jena.alexia

10 ай бұрын

Probably. 1/2 the stuff in the original I didn't even know what he was referring to. Most of these things I do know.

@brentbaker4463

10 ай бұрын

I AM 56 AND YES THIS IS HOW WE FELT HEARING THE ORIGINAL !! INCREDIBLE SONGS BOTH OF THEM! I'm so old I even type in all caps..LOL)

@_pachycephalosaurus_

10 ай бұрын

@@jena.alexiaamen to that! This song gets me all existential

@arker5835

10 ай бұрын

My brain is still on the loading screen... That was such an amazing song to delve into. I showed my mother who was born in the 50s this version as she's a major fan of the original. She said she's so happy they made this.

@dreadogastusf3548

10 ай бұрын

Yes, that is how we felt. The new version didn't hit me as hard as the original. But when you live long enough, you develop a thicker skin. Hang in there. "Await your arrival, at simple survival." Dan Fogelberg - Part of the Plan

THIS SONG SLAYS chronological order wouldve been nice but i also think the fact its not adds to the song and kinda just shows the chaos of the world

@coastiewoody

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing that out. I wanted chronological order like the original, but I didn't even think of it like this. You're absolutely right.

@aidenlee-zv7fo

10 ай бұрын

A lot of people are complaing about chronological order but they are trying to rhyme it and make a good song so yes thanks for pointing that out

@kbanghart

10 ай бұрын

​@@aidenlee-zv7foplus I think it really points to how events affect how things turn out in the future, so everything happening presently can be pointed to from the past

@bethanyhanna9464

10 ай бұрын

I do like the song. But the chronological order is what set the original apart. It was literally a history lesson put to music. This song will confuse anyone who isn't aware of the timeline in which these names and events were relevant. Now, it's just another catchy song, and not anything close to what the original was, in terms of significance. The message has been lost.

@kbanghart

10 ай бұрын

​@@coastiewoodyactually now that I think about it, I do believe the first does in fact jump back in time at one point? If you want to check feel free, I'm lazy right now LOL

I was a child when the first version of this song was a big hit. I loved it even though I was too young to understand most of the references. The fact that this version exists now makes me so happy. I hope the next generation eventually writes one of their own.

I can only imagine what Millennials and Gen Z will be singing about in 30 and 60 years from now when they update this song.

The fact that everything is out of order and that it bothers so many people is the perfect touch. It correlates to the chaos that everyone has felt during all the various events. This is a perfect cover.

@bobberman1001

10 ай бұрын

or they just couldn't make it rhyme!

@TheBendur

10 ай бұрын

Or they did it on purpose, which is genius.

@lumariadp

10 ай бұрын

lol ok dude

@seekanddowhat

10 ай бұрын

Billy Joel made his in order 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@random832

10 ай бұрын

@@seekanddowhat Yeah but he also phoned in everything after JFK. Four verses 1949-63, then one for 65-89.

This song needs to be rewritten for Every generation in the Future because the fire has always been and will always be...

@chriscarlisle5676

10 ай бұрын

I sent this to my uncle and he said almost the same thing. "Revised Billy Joey - yes! Every generation needs that. It’s good to see where the historical accents are. Stuff I wouldn’t have thought of were included which are important for forming that era 👍"

@georgelinford5576

10 ай бұрын

not sure how many generations we have left, if the fire doesn't ever stop.

@jenniferhanses

10 ай бұрын

Okay. I can get behind that if we get an actual new version that fixes this pile of garbage? Major key to this song that's missing: The events go in rough order. You don't put things that happened decades apart next to each other, and you don't back up in time.

@facuseba96

10 ай бұрын

@@georgelinford5576 the message is to not feel overwhelmed by current events, the world has always been a mess and a fucked up place, don't let it put you down and keep trying to fix it :)

@Keanuthelegend

10 ай бұрын

@@jenniferhansesChill out, it’s not that serious.

This is art at its finest, makes you think and reflect.

im 13 and wasn‘t alive for most of these events but I some how still love this songs because I always say ”the worlds on fire“ and I was raised with the original song so this is just special to me and I love this so much. Covid and just around 2020 have had a major impact on me since I was still growing up in the shit hole of the world but it will all be okay

I'm 42 so born in 1981. Every lyric in this song is my life. I have chills thinking that this all happened and I remember it. From 9/11 to Y2K to Myspace. Wow! Great modern cover Fall Out Boy!

@robolozoguy

10 ай бұрын

same. 1983.and in south africa for most of it. shitshow. shitshow. jirrrrrr we've been through it.

1989年の東京で、中学生の頃カセットテープでよく聞いていた曲です。 フォールアウト・ボーイがカバーしてくれてびっくりです！ カッコ良すぎる✨

I loved this update of the song! good job!!❤

I thought it was a cover, which it is, but so much better.