The Pop Corporation

Fall Out Boy have covered Billy Joel and they’ve updated the lyrics. WAIT WHAT! HOW DARE THEY etc etc. Listen, we geddit. And we’re no fans of Fall Out Boy per se, but wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is kinda daft fun, and you need to hear Pete Wentz out first. The little we know about Pete Wentz is that he seems like a nice dude.

So first, if you want to jive along to a cover version of a classic made by your fave pop-punkers or whatever the fuck they are, or indeed, listen to some cruddy band you hate butchering a song you love, click play and then we’ll make it all okay for you.

Deal?

Wentz sat down with Zane Lowe and this song came up and after talking about how it all came about and whatnot, the FOB dude put things into perspective.

He says: “I remember listening to the original when I was little and I was like, ‘I don’t know what half this stuff is.’ And it made me look up a bunch of this stuff. So, it was just interesting thinking about the stuff we would include versus you wouldn’t. Because there’s some stuff that was in the original that kind of is lost to the sands of time. You know what I mean? So yeah, we just did it. We put it together. It’s just a fun, goofy thing, you know what I mean?”

Goofy. Nice word. See? Don’t take the whole thing too seriously. No-one’s pissing on anyone’s graves here.

He added: “Listen, we did our best. It’s very, very, very difficult. His is not totally in chronological order, but it’s more in chronological order than ours. We just wanted the JFK blown away line, and clearly, I think that the World Trade one was a little more… that was probably… People probably felt a similar way. You remember where you were or whatever. So it’s just a little bit out of order, but it is what it is. Listen, we wanted the Internet to still have something to complain about.”

Let’s hear that again: “Listen, we wanted the Internet to still have something to complain about.”

What a great and daft thing to say. We’re not even remotely arsed about whether the cover is any cop or not – that’s an incredibly noble attitude to take about such a thing.

God bless pop music.