Fall Out Boy hit the stage throughout the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday evening to carry out their up to date model of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Begin the Hearth.”
The rock group launched the track earlier this summer season, writing new lyrics for Joel’s iconic hit track, which included references to important occasions that occurred from the years 1949 to 1989, together with every little thing from the Chilly Battle to the cola wars and Joseph Stalin to John F. Kennedy.
Fall Out Boy’s model covers the years from 1989 to 2023 and references Iron Man, MIchael Phelps, Taylor Swift, Colin Kaepernick, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, MySpace and the deaths of George Floyd, Prince and Queen Elizabeth, amongst different matters.
Bebe Rexha launched the band on the VMAs, that are airing stay from New Jersey’s Prudential Middle. Through the present, Fall Out Boy — decked out in fits — carried out exterior the sector on a stage stuffed with flames.
“I hearken to Billy Joel’s [song] and so lots of the issues in it are both huge moments or simply form of shoulder shrugs inside historical past now,” bassist Pete Wentz beforehand advised The New York Occasions of the track. “It’s attention-grabbing to see what he referenced from the ’50s and ’60s and what he didn’t. And in some methods it’s simply etchings within a cave — documentation that we existed and these items occurred, each triumphant and horrible. We made this track for ourselves after which we hoped our followers would have enjoyable with it.”
Fall Out Boy, three-time VMA winners, have been nominated for 2 awards: greatest different for “Maintain Me Like a Grudge” and greatest visible results for “Love From the Different Facet.”
The band, identified for hits like “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and Thnks Fr Th Mmrs,” not too long ago stated that they have been extending their world So A lot For (Tour) Mud subsequent yr with the announcement of So A lot For (2our) Mud, a 20-plus date run throughout america beginning Feb. 28 in Portland, Oregon, and persevering with via April 6 in Minneapolis. The U.Okay. and European leg of So A lot For (Tour) Mud kicks off Oct. 17 in Warsaw, Poland, and concludes Nov. 8 in Berlin.
Their eighth studio album, So A lot (For) Stardust, debuted because the No. 1 rock album upon its March 24 launch.
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