Genius Meanings
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Fall Out Boy – We Didn't Start The Fire
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Fall Out Boy’s rendition of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” quickly covers significant political, cultural, sporting, scientific events from 1989 up to 2023, just as the
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Fall Out Boy Update Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
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The band’s version covers 1989 through the present.
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Anthony Fantano – We Didn't Start the Fire by Fall Out Boy Remix
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[Verse] / Instagram, Harambe / Looks like COVID's here to stay / Super Smash Melee / 4chan, Sopranos / Occupy Wall Street / Housing crisis, Clinton cheats / Monika Lewinsky, Hubble
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Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire
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This monster hit of a song was created in 1989, when Joel turned 40. The idea spawned from a conversation he had with a friend of Sean Lennon. The friend just turned 21 and was
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Fall Out Boy – We Din't Start the Fire
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Captain Planet / Arab Spring / LA Riots Rodney King / Deep fakes / Earthquakes / Iceland volcano / Oklahoma City bomb / Kurt Cobain / Pokémon / Tiger Woods / MySpace / Monsanto
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Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Samples
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See all of “We Didn't Start the Fire” by Billy Joel’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Jimmy Fallon – Avengers: Endgame Cast Sings "We Didn't Start the Fire"
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The cast of Avengers: Endgame recaps the entire Marvel franchise by singing their own superhero version of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” The very end of the video
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Diamond Axe Studios Music – We Didn’t Start The Fire 2020
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[Verse 1] / Soleimani in Iran, COVID spreading in Wuhan / Flooding in Jakarta while Australia starts to burn / Kobe Bryant, World War Three / Billie Eilish Grammy sweep / Trump’s
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start The Fire (Traducción al Español)
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[Letra de "Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start The Fire (Traducción al Español)"] / [Verso 1] / Capitán Planeta, primavera Árabe / Disturbios en L.A., Rodney King / Falsificaciones
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It Lives, It Breathes – We Didn't Start The Fire
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[Verse 1] / Cops are falling out of line / Congress running out of time / Ceiling being raised again / Who cares, we're broke anyway / Donald Trump, Hilary / Change is what we
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CollegeHumor (Ft. Leslie Beukelman & Steve Frisbie) – We Didn't Start the Flame War
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[Verse 1: CollegeHumor.com] / First Post!/fucking gay/Second post!/go away! / Stupid picture/Simpsons did it/southpark did it too / ROFL Copter/really stupid/I dunno, I kinda like
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ByronSmith
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There are 5 musicians that I base my whole personality around
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Glass Beach
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Fall Out Boy – Fourth of July
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“Fourth Of July” compares the sparks flying between two people to the sparks flying in the air on July 4th, American Independence Day. The instrumental sample comes from Son Lux’s
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Fall Out Boy (Ft. OG Maco) – Fourth of July (Remix)
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[Intro: Patrick Stump] / You and I were, you and I were fire / You and I were, you and I were fire / You and I were, you and I were fire, fire, fire / (You are now listening to a
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Big Tasty (Ft. JenkinTown Possi) – We Didn't Start The Fire
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[Intro: Big Tasty] / Barry Goldberg, JTP, William Penn Academy / Fighting Quakers, North Philly, Principal Bale / [Verse 1: Big Tasty & (Johnny Atkins)] / Coach Mellor is good at
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)
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After a four year hiatus, Fall Out Boy returns. The song is about their return to music and starting with a clean slate. A burned slate.
This is the first single off their fifth
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Fall Out Boy – Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet
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The song name is possibly a reference to the baseball player Pete Rose, who was known for headfirst slides. He was accused in a betting scandal, for which he’ll most likely kept
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The Ink Spots – I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
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One of the most famous songs by The Ink Spots, also featured in the intro to a 2008 game Fallout 3, and was also included in other Fallout games from there on forward.
The song
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Fall Out Boy – Thnks fr th Mmrs
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One of Fall Out Boy’s now classic songs, “Thnks fr th Mmrs” tells the tale of doomed lovers who are still in it for the sex. The third single from their third album, Infinity on
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Beastie Boys (Ft. Biz Markie & Mark Nishita) – Do It
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“Do It” is Track 14 on Beastie Boys’ fourth (full-length) studio album, Ill Communication, released 5.31.1994.
It was performed in 91 known Concerts…
1st Known Performance: 5.28
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
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The first single off of Springsteen’s seminal album Born In The U.S.A., this track was written two years after most of the other songs on the album.
Producer Jon Landau thought
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Fall Out Boy (Ft. Brendon Urie) – The Drunk History of Fall Out Boy
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“The Drunk History of Fall Out Boy” is a viral video of Brendon Urie, lead singer of Panic! At the Disco,
attempting to recite the history of Fall Out Boy while drunk. The video
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Fall Out Boy – Irresistible
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“Irresistible” is the opening track of Fall Out Boy’s sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho. The song was later released as a single with Demi Lovato featuring in the
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The Office (USA) – Season 2 Episode 4: "The Fire"
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Pam: Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam. Sure, can I ask who's calling? Just a second. / Jim: Jim Halpert. What? How did you get this number? Stalker. / Pam: Katy and Jim met in the
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Eminem (Ft. P!nk) – Won't Back Down
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Eminem triumphantly returns to his o.g. style: songs filled with puns and allusions
Luckily, Rap Genius explains that stuff
This song later got used in Call of Duty: Black Ops
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Rick Ross (Ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T-Pain) – Maybach Music II
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Though the song wasn’t very popular at its time, it is one of the best songs of Rick Ross' third album, Deeper Than Rap. It is also part of the “Maybach Music Series”, which Rick
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Smash Mouth – All Star
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Smash Mouth’s best known song, with part of its enduring popularity/infamy caused by its inclusion in the opening scene of Shrek. And yet the music video is a tie-in to another
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Chris Ray Gun – We Didn't Stop The Virus
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[Verse 1] / Parasite wins Oscar gold / Flames engulf the west coast / Brexit fever, Cats in theaters kinda needs a patch / Australian brush ignites / Harvey Weinstein doin' time
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Lana Del Rey – The greatest
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On “The greatest,” Lana Del Rey expresses extreme nostalgia for relationships, places, and the music industry of the past in the light of the chaos of the present. In the lyrics
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