In Defense Of “We Didn’t Start The Fire”
Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” gets a lot of crap in critical circles, and sure, the chorus has that cheesy Billy Joel thing and it’s hard to ignore that after several listens, and the verses necessarily date themselves, but here’s the thing…it’s not a bad song by any means, and if you could write a song as good as ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire” that recapped all of the important events in the environment, politics, and entertainment from the first 40 years of your life, you totally would.
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