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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Todd in the Shadows

      One thought I have about this song is one thing it's about is music, both celebrating and mocking how important music is to culture Every single verse makes sure to throw in at least one piece of pop music history And it's intentionally awkwardly putting them next to real newshttps://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1235681917019832322 …

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      Todd in the Shadows @ShadowTodd
      Attention, all: After years of fence-sitting, I have decided I like "We Didn't Start the Fire"
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      It's a little bit of self crit Like, yes, absolutely, in most people's minds, the 50s are the Buddy Holly decade and the 70s are the heavy metal/punk rock decade (and the Billy Joel decade) And that's kind of terrible considering, in the end, how little music matters

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      Like the thing I harp on is he made the current year when he wrote the song, 1989, represented by "China's under martial law/rock and roller cola wars", which says it all really

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      That none of the big recording artists took any side on Tiananmen Square that year but they DID get a lot of press over whether they did commercials for Coke or Pepsi

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      The "We tried to fight it" is at least a little bit ironic, like one big thing the year-by-year nature of the song makes clear is how long the Vietnam War lasted regardless of how hard musicians protested against it (cf. the Vonnegut "custard pie from a stepladder" quote)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Mar 2020

      Billy Joel being all "Yeah I wrote a bunch of hit songs viciously satirizing the materialism of the 70s and 80s and the materialism of the 70s and 80s gave me a nice big check and kept going"

      5:33 PM - 5 Mar 2020
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        1. Kara McNair, a silly bunt‏ @karamcnair 5 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Was Billy Joel the spiritual founder of “South Park”?

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        1. Oh No It's The Kavity Kreeps‏ @KaviMontanaro 5 Mar 2020
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          "I seen the lights go out on Broadway I saw the Empire State laid low But life went on beyond the Palisades They all bought Cadillacs And left there long ago"

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