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[–] 103 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, Bernhard Goetz

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If this is a highlander situation my money is definitely on Goetz.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Bob Dylan probably doesn't have long, lol

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    [–] 44 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Also Brigitte Bardot is a racist pos. People, especially media, want to gloss over that because she was hot. Same with how Coco Chanel still gets venerated.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    HP Lovecraft racist or rich white woman born in the 30s racist?

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Marrying the advisor of Jean-Marie Le Pen ( leader of Front Nationale a far-right French political party) type of racist. Plus she called Marie le Pen (daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and also a fascist) the Joan of Arc of the 21st century in an interview.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    HP Lovecraft racist or rich white woman born in the 30s racist?

    That's literally the same racism, when do you think HP Lovecraft was living/writing...?

    Also, we gotta stop giving old people passes. They have the ability to change, they just choose to be bigots. My 90+ year old grandma wholeheartedly embraces my trans friends even if she doesn't fully understand how or why "Robert" became "Annalise", and she had never interacted with a trans person in her life before then.

    Brigitte Bardot was just a racist, xenophobic bitter POS until the end.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The list of suspects narrow...

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago

    The article is light on detail. No actual list of who's in the song.

    Here's the full list of 119 references:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_references_in_We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The song also mentions the Beatles, and I'm sure there's at least one Belgian still in the Congo.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    this might be one of the most mildly interestings things ive ever read

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well... since "we" could be interpreted to include Billy Joel and the listener... that's two more!

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I wish the Fall Out Boy update to the song was good.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What's your issue with it?

    I didn't realize the Fall Out Boy version existed before this comment and streamed it. It sounds fairly good, about what I'd expect from a Fall Out Boy update

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    The selection of items seems weaker to me, but for me the main sin is that the original is basically chronological, which makes it more impressive that it's a coherent song at all, if a bit overrated and very boomerific. Fallout Boy one just throws shit in at random to make the lines scan and rhyme, so it's very "meh" even as a follow-up. It feels like they kind of didn't understand that the original was a survey of the time period.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Did any of those 3 people start the fire?

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    I mean some of them weren’t alive even when the song came out.

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    15 years ago he was in the news suing because someone put out a smartphone app named “Chubby Checker” and that’s was not the sort of association he wanted to his name. 😉

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Only three people listed in the song are still alive: Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernhard Goetz.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I know mashups are pretty tired but I always wanted to hear a mashup of "We Didn't Start the Fire" and Prodigy's "Firestarter".

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    I mean…only like 7 of them were alive in 1994 in the first place.

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