Fall Out Boy put a contemporary twist on a classic rock hit by way of updating the lyrics to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” greater than 30 years after its 1989 release.

The new model, which the Grammy-nominated workforce released on Thursday, June 28, swaps out the unique’s popular culture and political references for a few of the maximum notable occasions of the past 3 many years — together with the death of Michael Jackson, former President Donald Trump’s impeachments, climate change, the Black Lives Matter movement, Taylor Swift and Kanye West’s feud and extra.

Bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz gave Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe insight into the song choice, revealing in a brand new interview that he were looking to the band to do a brand new model of the song “for goodbye.” It in any case came into fruition after bandmate Patrick Stump gave the OK.

“I be mindful being attentive to the unique when I was little and I was like, ‘I don’t know what part this stuff is,’” Wentz, 44, explained. “And it made me look up a number of these things. So, it was once simply attention-grabbing fascinated with the stuff we would come with versus you wouldn’t. Because there’s some stuff that was once in the original that roughly is lost to the sands of time. You know what I mean? So yeah, we simply did it. We put it in combination. It’s only a amusing, goofy factor.”

Fall Out Boy’s reimagined model mentions the whole thing from Queen Elizabeth II’s death to the September 11 terrorist attacks, however Wentz famous that they weren’t nervous about following a timeline. “It’s just a bit bit out of order, however it is what it is,” he told Apple Music. “Listen, we needed the Internet to still have one thing to complain about.”

One match the group selected to depart out of the new lyrics was the COVID-19 pandemic. “That’s all anyone talked [about],” Wentz explained. “It felt like there used to be a couple of things that felt, like, a bit of on the nose. And then there were a couple of things where it was like Bush V. Gore, [and] we wanted the rhyme.”

Even if Fall Out Boy’s tackle “We Didn’t Start the Fire” doesn’t land with listeners, Wentz mentioned he’s happy with what they created. “I feel that the wonderful thing about the way that song and artwork works now could be that you put something out there,” he shared. “If it misses, it kind of simply doesn’t move any place. And if other folks love it, then it turns into a factor. But you can put much more things kind of out into the ether and it simply becomes white noise, if other folks don’t adore it.”

Joel, 74, has but to touch upon the cover. He up to now unfolded about people’s critiques on his classic song, which used to be featured on his 1989 album Storm Front, during an October 2021 episode of the “We Didn’t Start the Fire: The History Podcast.”

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“The handiest factor I’ve heard about that song from people is, ‘I hate that track!’” he printed on the sequence, which dedicates an episode to every reference from the song’s lyrics. “Some other people hate that music. It’s certainly one of the maximum hated issues I ever wrote! And I don’t get the hate.”

Joel noted at the time that he “simplest wrote about stuff I wanted to listen to” — and that it used to be just “dumb good fortune” that the music became successful. “I didn’t even pick the singles; the report corporate alternatives what’s going to be a unmarried,” he continued. “I hand them an album of a bunch of songs and cross, ‘Here, now it’s your turkey. You determine it out.’”

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