Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire

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很久沒有寫這個系列的文章了

前陣子YT演算法推薦這首老歌給我

大概是我常聽的Elton John曾經與Billy Joel同台過

算是我孤陋寡聞，還有很多經典老歌還沒有品嚐到

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〈We didn't start the fire〉

這首也是Billy Joel 的經典老歌，收錄在1989年《Storm Front》專輯的第2首

屬於快節奏歌曲

另外也有發行單曲、MTV

Billy Joel在1989年創作這首，當時國內各種社會議題、世界局勢動盪不安

（但三十年後的現在回頭看，那其實是美好的1980/90年代呢！）

他以出生年1949起，將這四十年的報紙頭條擷取標題，當作歌詞

所以歌詞包含大量的事件名詞

如果不知道Billy Joel當初的創作背景

只直接聽、看歌詞，似乎不見得能知其所以然🤔

試圖表達局勢或戰火動盪，並不是誰刻意引起的

人們從未刻意引起戰火

並不是1980年代末期才動盪，過去的幾十年已經如此

打從世界開始轉動，這些就已經存在，並不斷發生

不過，既然是音樂，輕鬆聽就好

只是某天與友人聊天靈光乍現，決定構思這首歌拿來這些新聞標題當創作素材

他自己也以音樂的角度批判自己寫的歌，覺得沒有旋律、稱不上一首歌，就像是牙鑽一樣

算是滿有趣的歌，MV也很有趣，用一個家庭的的成長到死亡、以及廚房的演變等等

象徵時間不斷的在流逝

這首歌當年末美國告示牌排行榜第一名，迄今還是白金級認證

直到現在還是有很高的評價，不少影劇廣告都曾引用過類似手法

（辛普森家庭也有😂）

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以下為這首歌的歌詞：

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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參考資料：

We Didn't Start the Fire：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire