Pete Wentz has defined why COVID was disregarded of Fall Out Boy’s up to date model of ‘We Didn’t Begin The Fireplace’.

Final week, the band shared a remade model of Billy Joel’s hit, with references to main pop and cultural landmarks between 1989 and 2023.

The FOB model of the tune provides one thing of a quick historical past of the interval, mentioning ‘deep fakes, earthquakes’, ‘North Korea, South Korea’, ‘MySpace’ and extra.

However what it doesn’t embrace is COVID, which many have been stunned by given the seismic, once-in-a-century occasion it was.

And Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz has now defined why the brand new model of the monitor omits the occasion, speaking about it with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the place he stated:

“It’s like, that’s all anyone talked… what I imply?” 

“I don’t know. It felt like there was a few issues that felt like somewhat on the nostril.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Wentz described his and Fall Out Boy’s choice and inspiration to make an up to date model of the monitor, saying:

“I keep in mind listening to the unique once I was little and I used to be like, ‘I don’t know what half these things is.’ And it made me search for a bunch of these things.

“So, it was simply attention-grabbing occupied with the stuff we would come with versus [what] you wouldn’t. As a result of there’s some stuff that was within the authentic that sort of is misplaced to the sands of time… We put it collectively. It’s only a enjoyable, goofy factor.”

“The factor I favored concerning the authentic is that it’s simply sort of a time capsule, so it’s simply obtained issues in it, however there’s no judgment on it or no matter. 

“There’s triumphant characters and there’s despair and it’s simply sort of the tapestry of human existence. And so, I feel we sort of tried to try this.”

Fall Out Boy are at the moment amid the North American run of their ‘So A lot For (Tour) Mud’, which kicked-off in Chicago final month.
On Saturday, they introduced out My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Method for a canopy of ‘Saturday’.