Posted on 05/29/2016 5:22:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Gotta give Joel credit for wording it that way. Not only is it a semi-humble statement, it's a true statement.
Now if we get only get some of those preachy actors to say: Who cares about the political opinions of a movie star?
I heard it as being about the pressures on the 'Entertainer' to continually give the public fresh music and the consequences of not doing so.
If I were to put a Trump spin on it...
Trump is promising the public with something and he must follow through with concrete changes or he will lose his 'audience'.
Trump job is much harder than Joel's though.
The musician creates a song...Trump job is to take a promise and make it reality.
I think even the most left-wing New Yorkers are just a tiny bit giddy at the prospect of having a New Yorker as President. New York hasn’t been politically relevant since the Kennedy administration.
That is true. The part about “learn to dance with a hand in my pants” is about people taking his money, but there is a lot about having to play the game to stay relevant. I like the verse about them cutting his song in length to fit radio.
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Even today, listening to that song chokes me up a bit.
Roger Stone tells the inside scoop, wonderful interview.
“...who cares about the political opinions of a piano player?”
Love that response. I wish more entertainers thought like that.
Thanks for the link. Honestly it felt that Joel phoned that one in. The quality of that particular performance was subpar.
Critics were angry because Goodnight Saigon (off the same album) “refused to take sides.” No, it just gives an account about what the men went through without regard to the whys of Vietnam, which was above their pay grade anyway. The part about the VC lying in wait for our guys to land is gut-wrenching. My uncle lived that stuff.
Some of his songs are written in a ‘hymn structure’. I loved his music growing up. Unfortunately, I went to see him during the ‘Back In The USSR’ tour and left just before the end. He played none of the old hits I had loved.
You got that right...
Now shut up and play.
I have seen him in concert a number of times, and you nailed it DeVito is one of the best drummers of all time as far as I am concerned.
All for Lenya, when i was 12 and had a crush :)
I also like that song, as well as “The Entertainer”, but I will add a few others that would be my main favorites.
Piano Man
Captain Jack
The Stranger
Allentown
We Didn’t Start The Fire
Downeaster ‘Alexa’
It’s good to see Billy fans here, especially those who know him well!
I’m failing at school, losing my friends, making my family lose their minds
I don’t wanna eat, I don’t wanna sleep, I only want Leyna one more time
SANDRA!!!! we could have been so happy!!!!!!
think she ended up in rehab.
Nothing like lower income white ethnic neighborhoods :)
boy i miss it.
I like many of his songs that didn’t/don’t get a lot of radio play like “James,” “Zanzibar,” “Summer, Highland Falls,” etc.
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