We Didn't Start the Viral
Have you noticed how Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ has been popping up in videos about, well, video? First there was Dan Meth’s Internet People, which loosely used the song’s structure, but not its melody to give an animated retrospective on viral video:
Then there was Cakke’s The Internet Stars are Viral, which used Joel’s actual tune in a kind of hyper-clip show of Internet memes:
And just recently, we’ve been treated to Not Another Bubble by The Richter Scales, which borrows the song to have a laugh at this whole Internet video thing:
So, is this the last we’ll hear of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’? Is there another song more well-suited to retrospective? Or will someone create a whole new video summing up this phenomena?
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team






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