Have you ever heard the song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel? If you haven’t, you should! He mentions world issues and the causes of world issues. He mentions things like crack, AIDs, punk rock, Little Rock, U-2 and many more. In the song he says “we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.” basically saying that everything that’s happening in the world today didn’t start with us. The song goes onto say, “No, we didn’t light it, we tried to fight it.” because we’ve tried to stop issues, find a cure for diseases, do positive things and be a positive influence on the younger children.
The 1980s number one hit in the United States, “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and was a huge commercial success. He got criticism for the song as well. Blender ranked it forty one on its list of the “Worst Songs Ever”, said that it resembled “a term paper scribbled the night before it’s due.” Joel said he had mixed feelings about the song. He said “It’s a nightmare to perform live, because if I miss one word, it’s a train wreck.” He has also called it a “novelty song” that does not “really define me as well as album songs that probably don’t get played”.
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The world’s first electronic television was invented in 1927 and was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Television was invented to entertain us and to provide us with information about events happening in faraway places. I believe the reason Billy Joel mentioned television in his song because it influences your outlook on the world, it basically brainwashes us. There is tv shows and commercials that can be inappropriate. They can have inappropriate words, pictures and sounds. It takes us away from the people around us and it’s also bad for your eyes and weight as
The 1980s number one hit in the United States, “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and was a huge commercial success. He got criticism for the song as well. Blender ranked it forty one on its list of the “Worst Songs Ever”, said that it resembled “a term paper scribbled the night before it’s due.” Joel said he had mixed feelings about the song. He said “It’s a nightmare to perform live, because if I miss one word, it’s a train wreck.” He has also called it a “novelty song” that does not “really define me as well as album songs that probably don’t get played”.
In the song he mentions model, actress …show more content…
The world’s first electronic television was invented in 1927 and was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Television was invented to entertain us and to provide us with information about events happening in faraway places. I believe the reason Billy Joel mentioned television in his song because it influences your outlook on the world, it basically brainwashes us. There is tv shows and commercials that can be inappropriate. They can have inappropriate words, pictures and sounds. It takes us away from the people around us and it’s also bad for your eyes and weight as