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First Time Reaction - Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official HD Video)

Link To Original Video: https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g?si=2v76mQSDeG4GOqWa Gaming Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIrBDvfzNc14YL246FiyKQQ Reaction Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM24aNhUAPc8qDYWEv4hhAg Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Cliff_Beats Join our Discord and be a part of our AOD Family! https://discord.gg/ZBP5tmDJzD Join My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cliffbeats @billyjoel #wedidntstartthefire #reaction #billyjoel #firsttimereaction

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Sören aka Jon Weirgaryen

Thank you 🙏❤ Cliff Beats ❤ for your Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire reaction! #billyjoel #wedidntstartthefire I had never seen the video! This is an extremely hard song to go in unprepared. It is Billy Joel's artistic answer to the saying "nothing happened in the 1950es". So he lists the headlines of his own experience of the 1950es (and onwards) in chronological order. Thinking this was just another song he made to survive, he was baffled to see it blow off and shape a career for him as a superstar. edit: terror on the airline is the Lockerbie disaster where a Pan Am World Airlines Boeing 747-121 was blown out of the air by a device to then crash into the living area of a Scottish town and end the lives of all 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Russians in Afghanistan... Afghanistan has been called the end of empires, the Macedonian-Greeks ~330 BC, the antique Persians, the British empire, the Soviet-Russians, and the Americans recently.

Danielle V

Fall Out Boy actually covered this song last year and updated it to include all the news since then.

Sören aka Jon Weirgaryen

Not it chronological order though, but a nice hark back to the orginal with Ever Given Suez.

Gina Arceci-Raymond

I think they did a phenomenal job. Billy Joel, cowrote it with them. I think it needs be recreated every 40 year's.

Gina Arceci-Raymond

It's crazy how you can listen to a song thousands of times(my parents had this on repeat when I was a kid) I was 11 when it came out. Generally, I ended up taking those memories with me into adulthood & this is one of my all-time favorites from Billy Joel. Anyway, Im going off on a tangent, i digress. My point was that I've heard this so many times & I've listened to the remake(fall out boy & Billy Joel wrote a 2nd "We didn't start the fire" last year & I've heard it enough to know quite a bit of the lyrics. Well, with me listening to your reaction I decided to go listen to the new one. How did I miss this subtle lyric change? In the original he sings " No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it" and in the new one the lyrics are "No, we didn't light it, but we're trying to fight it" Such a small and almost seemingly insignificant change, but it was so necessary & profound! It would be really cool if you could react to Fall out Boys version. Maybe when I get paid I'll have an extra $20 for a reaction. Either way, I'm glad you were introduced to the "piano man"

Tracy Kelton

I was just starting high school when this came out. I was part of an alternative program for people who had issues that interfered with us succeeding. My social studies final project was a presentation on 1 verse of this song. It goes decade by decade from 1949 (Harry Truman) to 1989 (china's under martial law, cola wars)

Tracy Kelton

It was great, but I also wished it was in chronological order like the original.

Robert Kern

wish you had more music like this and classic rock than so much Rap Just sayin