Attention, all: After years of fence-sitting, I have decided I like "We Didn't Start the Fire"
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Replying to @ShadowTodd
I loved it when I was a kid, but now all I hear is standard “boomers not taking responsibility for compromising their values and screwing everything up” language
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Replying to @SBMTGDev @ShadowTodd
Some of the things he mentions are legitimately NOT the Boomers' fault (thalidomide, for instance). The point of the song, if you're willing to be generous, is not refusing to take responsibility for problems they created, but pointing out that they inherited a mess, too.
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There's a fair amount of irony and contempt in the song for things Boomers actually did, like I think the song ends on "rock and roller cola wars" because that was a thing going on at the time that legitimately pissed him off
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The apparent origin was that he was calling out Julian Lennon for saying it's harder to turn 21 in 1989 than in 1949. Each line is historical references from that year, pointing out what culture was doing at the time. So by the end, it's stuff Boomers did. But it starts in '49
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Yeah like if you had to try to say what the point of the song is part of it must be that there never was some kind of golden age when the people in charge were sane and sober and wise
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hollowgolem and
If you go back to the "peaceful" Happy Days 1950s they weren't peaceful at all, they were constantly a hairsbreadth from blowing up the world
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I mean yeah absolutely Boomers suck and the 80s verse of the song admits they suck but everything that sucks about them is a consequence of decisions their so-called "Greatest Generation" parents made It's how history works
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