Why Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" is stupid

[bob_32_116]

I'm new here. What sort of reasons are expected in order to start a thread?

I don't think anyone is suggesting there is any reason why you shouldn't start a thread like this one. It's just that we are curious why you picked this particular song and not some other. The song came out quite some time ago. Has there been some recent publicity about it, or somebody praising it in the press, to which you felt the need to reply?

Interesting what you say about it being used for school classes. Like you, I find it to be just a pointless recitation names of people and events taken, magpie fashion, from American 20th century history. The song says nothing to me, so I wonder what the students make of it?

It would be far better, in my opinion, for them to study the Genesis album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Almost from start to finish, it's packed with oblique references to American culture, mixed in with mythology and metaphysics. Even now, years after I first listened to it and read the lyrics, I am finding things out about the lyrics that I did not know, or whose significance escaped me at the time.