That song - We Didn't Start the Fire - is one of the songs we hear in Aquafit each week. The acoustics in the high-ceiling pool resemble a church's. Everyone sings along to their favourite songs, particularly the choruses and the backup vocals. This is one of the songs that gets a lot of attention, along with Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. The Cool Down song is Hallelujah, which seems odd to me. Everyone singing Hallelujah, like a church moment.
It seems unusual to me that Billy Joel wrote We Didn't Start the Fire. The story of the song is listed as this: "Billy Joel wrote the song 'We Didn't Start the Fire' as a response to a comment about how much harder it was growing up in the 1980s as opposed to the 1950s. He wrote the lyrics before the music and included the song on his 1989 album Storm Front."
What did Joel say about the melody of his song? "It's really not much of a song ... If you take the melody by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."
And it likely is the cover by Fall Out Boy released in 2023 that we hear in the class. Wikipedia says it received negative critical reception.The song was once again brought to the forefront, and modern critics panned even the original song as one of Joel's worst in his entire catalog.
All those old folks doing exercises in the YMCA pool just don't seem to agree.
And maybe opinion will change as we experience more fires around the globe with climate change. It seems like the climate change anthem chorus now.
Here's another of the Arbutus bark close-ups. Now that I've lost Topaz filters, I have to create special colour effects myself. It seems to be going well. I was able to really intensify the two colours on the left - the blue and green-yellow.
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