Elon Musk leads the fourth and final verse, followed by “Kaepernick/Texas failed electric grid/Jeff Bezos, Climate change/White rhino goes extinct.” Stump closes out with a fitting last line: “S-S-R-Is/Prince and the Queen die/World Trade, second plane/what else do I have to say?” before the chorus runs one more time.Ĭheck out the visualizer for Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” above. Additionally, the second-to-last verse sees the inclusion of mass tragedy events such as Sandy Hook and Columbine. SpongeBob SquarePants, Michael Jordan and the Williams twins all earn shouts in the third verse. “More war in Afghanistan/Cubs go all the way again” opens the verse, and “Stranger Things, Tiger King/Ever Given Suez” (namedrop of the 2021 container ship that was wedged in the Suez canal, snarling global supply chains) closes the verse– with stops at Obama, Spielberg and John Bobbit along the way. The second verse spans significant news stories and pop culture moments. riots, Rodney King/Deep fakes, earthquakes/Iceland volcano.” Other notable mentions in the first verse include nods to Pokémon, Tiger Woods, the death of Michael Jackson (“Michael Jackson dies”) and MySpace.
Patrick Stump kicks off the song with “Captain Planet, Arab Spring/L.A. In the band’s more modern (and more punk) take on “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” events aren’t listed in chronological order, as they are in the original.
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