#we didnt start the fire

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Thursday, June 29.

MCR vs FOB.

It is going off today, let us tell you. It seems 2023 is the new 2008 (or indeed the new 1989), because it seems we are amid The Great Emo Beatdown of 2023, featuring two true titans of the genre: #mcr and #fall out boy, no less. The news in brief: Frank Iero, of My Chemical Romance fame, has launched his brand spankin' rootin'-tootin' official online megastore. This megastore has, in reality, proven to be a digital garage sale featuring a, uh, copious number of gloves amongst its plunder. At the same time, fellow emo behemoths Fall Out Boy have released a cover of Billy Joel's No.1 hit single from 1989, "We Didn't Start the Fire" that runs through a list of proper nouns ripped from the historic headlines. FOB, have, kindly, updated the list for the years 1989-2023. For those of us still sporting our hair jet black, our Vans jet black, our torn jeans jet black, and our makeup the very jettest of blacks, these last days of June, 2023 will live long in the memory.

Needless to say, the dear folk of the dashboard are simply lapping up every moment of this delightfully bonkers emo drama in which Fall Out Boy actually lovingly reference My Chemical Romance's Black Parade as one of the hallowed 33 defined moments of modern times. We love it. And while we're at it, we'll take a pair of those sweaty, torn gloves if you don't mind, Mr Iero. 

[sherlockig]

fall out boy are lucky "Trump gets impeached thrice, Polar bears got no ice" still rhymes

[batcavescolony]

I didn't think if have to explain this, Human mediocrity is hundreds of times better then ANYTHING an AI could come up with.

[chucktaylorupset]

Captain america but his post ice debriefing on the modern day is playing the two "we didn't start the fires" back to back and then allowing unlimited follow up questions

[animentality]

[marshbevvie]

we didn’t start the fire

[billyjoelmutt]

United Universes Tour 2024!- We Didnt start the Fire!!

Dodger- “Oh somethings burning!! Burning!!!! Come on lets try to fight it!!!!” 

The song then began!!!! And Dodger looked like he was ready to fight it!!! 

Dodger- 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 Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye"Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc!

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock"Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai"Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, “Ben Hur”, space monkey, Mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-goU2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land” Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion"Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?!!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it!!!

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan"Wheel of Fortune”

, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore!

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on

We didn’t start the fire!

Triple D-(It was always burning!! Since the world’s been turning!!) We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it

Everyone was singing along!! Like crazy! the end was near but the energy is high!

(All credits to original creators! Video belongs to Edit Carrel on Youtube and all characters belong to there respected hosts!) 

(I must say this video is still awesome!!! :3 It never gets old! Thankyou! You know who you are!! :3)

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(Credits to Disney, the Beatles, JFK, MLP, Billy Joel, and all blogs tagged as well as creator of video!!!)

[schiavonaspada]

fob acknowleged mcr by putting 'Black Parade' in their wdstf cover on petekey day god is good

[beguilingcorpse]

why does this look like a make some noise prompt

[thanks-for-the-crabapples]

We already have this generation's "We Didn't Start the Fire" dammit

It's Bo Burnham's "That Funny Feeling" and it's perfect

[thetabase]

We need a We didn't start the fire with hermitcraft homestuck style

[midnightblue66]

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

Listening to Fall Out Boy's cover of We Didn't Start The Fire is so good. Like, listening to it, I can only imagine what it felt like to live through all the stuff in the original song, but this rendition really makes weep that this is how it must have felt to hear the og We Didn't Start The Fire.

Like......oh, I liked the song before, it was reassuring to me that the message was that nothing ever really stops but we fight anyway, but hearing this new version, it's a little angrier. That might just be because it's fall out boy, but I can imagine that people in '89 felt much the same way I do when the 90's-2000's version of the song dropped.

That feeling of "interesting times are never ending, but we carry on + just a hint of rage" has me bonding with a person who might be dead and gone by now, but once ate a sandwich like I am now and heard that song and felt a little older.

[silkcorpsedoll]

for 2024 i would like to live through one week that’s not a whole new verse of “we didn’t start the fire.” is that too fucking much to ask for??