Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

This YouTuber’s shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results are amusing mainly for the films the editor chooses to sample, because it’s not hard to find examples of the words in, say, Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” presents a much tougher challenge. The words in the chorus are easy enough to find, but the Unusual Suspect had to dig up clips to match Joel’s list of 1950s names and events, such as, “Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev.” I was impressed by how much effort that apparently took until someone pointed out there’s a web-crawling app for finding movie dialogue. I found it funny regardless.