We Didn't Start the Fire! by Haley Jahn

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billy joel

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billy joel

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BILLY JEAN

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Not my lover

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel

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Billy Joel

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Billy Joel speaking for Americans

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Goes through the ages on different topics related to that time

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Billy Joel

Billy Billy

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People who like music such as BILLY JEAAAANNN

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they didn't start a fire

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Billy Joel speaking for his generation

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billy joel

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To show how the world has progressed towards disaster over the last 50 years

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Joel Billy

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The world burning

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It’s about the different controversies through ages and the fact that children were being blamed for issues even though they were the only ones fighting it

Billy Joel

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Everyone. But the song is targeted at people in previous generations.

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The older people

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Specifically those that refuse to take accountability for their actions

anyone who decides to listen to this banger

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They didn't want to start a war with someone else

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Billy Joel

the American people

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This song was written about major and memorable events from 1949 to 1989.

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With recent events

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Protesting began and it became a large controversy about why no one had ever questioned the previous systems

Anyone

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Goes from “Marilyn Monroe” from days such the 1952, Continues to “Sputnik” a unmanned russian spacecraft in 1957, “JFK” literally blown away in 1963

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shows the times that the world has been through and how every disaster has led to everything there is now

Anyone

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they didn't start any fighting and they tried to stop it

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Showing how really bad events will continue to happen and the world will keep going. The people who live is the generation when this happened deal with the consequences of the people before them.

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It's April fools day today

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That's an event

Billy Joel is singing about topics that lead up to the modern world, and talking about how the world has been burning since its been turning

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Anyone listening, but for older generations

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Shows listeners how the world has been changing and continues to change

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billy joellllll

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It shows that these bad things will always happen, but we can still find good things to appreciate in the world as well.

Anyone listening, specifically people of older generations

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Presidents, pop culture, music artists, protests, and controversies

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They never wanted to start the war. They didn't start the fire

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People are effected by the older generations actions.

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Cold War

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Sharing memorable Events during that era

to show how they don't want to fight or have conflict, and to show how they didn't start any of the fights

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JFK BLOWN AWAY

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JFK go boom

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The issues the world is facing in the current era this song was made, is the product of the past generations choices/conflicts.

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The context is that people of more modern generations didn't start the fire

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… Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

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Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

… "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law

Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

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Americans during this time, feeling the anxiety from all these events.

… Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

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Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

lots of protests and political beliefs at the time, the cold war and fear of nuclear war happening

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… Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

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Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

… Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

End of WW2 (1945) and the start of the Cold war started (1947)

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… Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

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Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

… Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

… Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

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South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

… Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

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Many of the references were about the cold war.

jfk

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It was released after the cold war

A war was very cold

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hint: cold war

Jintucky Fried Chicken

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Billy joel

billy joel

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billy joel representing the american people

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Billy Joel, a singer

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it reviews stages of the world and examines how the world has been burning

younger generations

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People that felt uneasy or anxious about the cold war.

Pop Culture, Wars, presidents, etc.

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people who arent responsible

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Mister president get down

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older generations

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anyone who listens to billy joel, the song specifically targets certain individuals from previous time periods

just all the things and events thats happened in the past century

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anyone really

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John Fitz🚘Bullet🤯gerald Kennedy

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he said something about a toaster oven

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change and evaluation is inevitable

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billy joel

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that the chaos of the 20th century was not cause by the generation of that time, but the build up of past events did.

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government

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there were many world-wide conflicts that was happening during the 20th century.

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to persuade that the world is corrupted for his generation. And that its not the gens fault to what happened in the past.

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