We Didn’t Start the Fire is obviously a hilarious song but we don’t talk enough about the line “cola wars I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE”, like was that the straw that broke the camels back for you my man?
I always thought this line referred to escalating celebrity endorsements (not New Coke vs Classic). I remember the fanfare around Michael Jackson’s Pepsi commercials
To be as generous as possible to Mr. Joel’s 8th-most-annoying song, it seems like synecdoche for the whole Boomer Sellout thing—not quite The Clash singing about turning rebellion into money, but not *not* that either.
Diet Coke had George Michael and in this case since rock and roll had ceased to mean anything by the 1980s Billy Joel included two pop stars. Easier to sing?
