Fall Out Boy replace Billy Joel tune with lyrics on Meghan Markle and Elon Musk

Fall Out Boy shocked followers with a brand new tune this week – however not in the way in which they anticipated.

Although the band solely launched their newest album, So Much (for) Stardust again in March, they’ve simply dropped a brand new cowl tune.

Instead of placing their very own twist on a contemporary monitor as many rock bands would, they took on a traditional hit from Billy Joel: We Didn’t Start the Fire.

The 1989 tune initially spoke about political and cultural touchstones that had been extraordinarily related on the time.

Instead, Fall Out Boy have modified up the whole lot of the tune’s lyrics in their very own method, and thrown in references to trendy celebrities and occasions, together with Meghan Markle and the Columbine college taking pictures bloodbath.

Billy Joel’s authentic lyrics rushed by way of references, saying: “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.”

Fall Out Boy’s model of the monitor hits on individuals their youthful followers will know extraordinarily nicely.

Their model of the lyrics learn: “Sandy Hook, Columbine/Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice/ISIS, LeBron James/Shinzo Abe blown away/Meghan Markle, George Floyd/Burj Khalifa, Metroid/Fermi paradox/Venus and Serena/Michael Jordan 23/ YouTube killed MTV.”

They later croon: “Elon Musk, Kaepernick/Texas failed electric grid/Jeff Bezos, Climate change/White rhino goes extinct/Great Pacific garbage patch/Tom DeLonge and aliens/Mars rover, Avatar.”

Fall Out Boy launched a press release alongside the tune, the place they backed up their ideas behind the adjustments.

The band wrote on Twitter: “I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events – some that disappeared into the sands of time – others that changed the world forever.”

They added: “So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years – we felt like a little system update might be fun. Hope you like our take on it.”

Billy Joel’s authentic model of the tune went straight to primary within the US Billboard Hot 100 when it hit radio stations in 1989.

It went on to go multiplatinum all through the USA and United Kingdom.

Joel as soon as recalled he obtained the concept for the tune after assembly a 21-year-old good friend of Sean Ono Lennon (John Lennon’s son) who informed him: “It’s a terrible time to be 21!”

Joel replied: “Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y’know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful.”