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?
Look, I appreciate the rhyming effort and the fairly tight adherence to chronological order. I get that it’s Boomer whingeing, but it has its merits.
As a GenX’er, the Fall Out Boy “throw a bunch of events from the last 30 years into a similar rhythmic structure” is weaksauce.
I have painful memories from when the song was new of explaining to coworkers that it was “Zhou Enlai”, not “Joe ‘N’ I” and then having to explain who Zhou Enlai *was*.
9 year old me heard “trouble in the Suez” and wondered what was wrong with America’s sewers in the mid 50s. Like, I pictured alligators living in them.
Another common mishearing among my age cohort was “stockbroker homicide” for “Starkweather homicides”. GenX’ers who weren’t fans of the national pastime also wondered about the significance of “California baseball”.
