Did any of those 3 people start the fire?
The song also mentions the Beatles, and I’m sure there’s at least one Belgian still in the Congo.
It mentions Beatlemania, which I think we can safely say has died.
And you’d need two Belgians in the Congo.
Any troubles in the Suez still?
Has the boat gotten stuck again?
Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, Bernhard Goetz
I wonder when all of U2 died, though… hadn’t heard anything about that.
Another for the AI slop pile. Maybe ppl shouldn’t just ask AI a question to create this bullshit articles, eh? If I didn’t have an ad blocker active I would feel cheated by reading articles like that.Ages 84, 84, and 78, respectively.
In order of the FMK game, I assume?
If this is a highlander situation my money is definitely on Goetz.
And that’s when Chubby Checker hits you with The Twist.
They’ll never see it coming.
There will be only one
Bob Dylan probably doesn’t have long, lol
That’s wild, I could’ve sworn he was dead already.
judging by his recent gigs, he may already be gone
By “recent”, you mean the last 50 years?
yeah, i was in austin the same time he was recently. everyone was goggling about going to see him and were you going to go see him? I was like, for the $400 they’re asking i can watch a tape. i saw a mid-80s year old buddy guy a few years back and while as a guitar player it was a really technically interesting concert, he hardly played any songs. he mostly imitated other greats who have died and had been influenced by his style. like, cool you can play like stevie and jimi but i came to hear you dude. buddy was only $20 a pop so it was still a great concert. I was not going to risk that at $400 a pop.
Bernhard Goetz
First time I heard him called Bernhard…
Yeah, Bernie Goetz
I’'ve been thinking about Bernie Goetz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60V0eayiAY
Doomtree - 38 airweight
Mysteries on the Holodeck.
Also Brigitte Bardot is a racist pos. People, especially media, want to gloss over that because she was hot. Same with how Coco Chanel still gets venerated.
HP Lovecraft racist or rich white woman born in the 30s racist?
HP Lovecraft racist or rich white woman born in the 30s racist?
That’s literally the same racism, when do you think HP Lovecraft was living/writing…?
Also, we gotta stop giving old people passes. They have the ability to change, they just choose to be bigots. My 90+ year old grandma wholeheartedly embraces my trans friends even if she doesn’t fully understand how or why “Robert” became “Annalise”, and she had never interacted with a trans person in her life before then.
Brigitte Bardot was just a racist, xenophobic bitter POS until the end.
Marrying the advisor of Jean-Marie Le Pen ( leader of Front Nationale a far-right French political party) type of racist. Plus she called Marie le Pen (daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and also a fascist) the Joan of Arc of the 21st century in an interview.
i mean if she lights the pyre
Uber-racist (and homophobe, anti-feminist, etc…)
She would have been a great asset in the Trump administration
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I wish the Fall Out Boy update to the song was good.
What’s your issue with it?
I didn’t realize the Fall Out Boy version existed before this comment and streamed it. It sounds fairly good, about what I’d expect from a Fall Out Boy update
In Bo Burnham fan circles people joked that That Funny Feeling from Inside is the truer generational update to We Didn’t Start the Fire 🥲
At last there’s a decent 1985 update:
I liked the medieval version https://youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8
Holy shit, Chubby Checker is still alive? Wow!
15 years ago he was in the news suing because someone put out a smartphone app named “Chubby Checker” and that’s was not the sort of association he wanted to his name. 😉
15 years ago… smartphone app…
Holy shit, a Fire Punch meme on Lemmy. (read Fire Punch, everyone)
The medieval version.
New cover by fallout boy
The list of suspects narrow…
The long arc of justice will prevail.
The article is light on detail. No actual list of who’s in the song.
Here’s the full list of 119 references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_references_in_We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire
I know mashups are pretty tired but I always wanted to hear a mashup of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and Prodigy’s “Firestarter”.
Well… since “we” could be interpreted to include Billy Joel and the listener… that’s two more!
And any living Belgians who were in the Congo before 1960.
I think including the listener is stretching it. I think it’s pretty straightforward that “we” refers to Billy Joel’s generation.
this might be one of the most mildly interestings things ive ever read
I mean some of them weren’t alive even when the song came out.
It’s wild that payola was a scandal, compared to today where it’s a drop in the bucket of corruption
