The Worst Pop Singer Ever. Why, exactly, is Billy Joel so bad?

Slate ^ | Jan 23, 2009 | Ron Rosenbaum

[whitedog57]

Well said. Many of them believe in Utopian societies where everyone has a home, health care, goes to college, etc.

They are just naive and forget the dreaded “free rider problem.”

If its free, nobody tries anymore.

Basic law of human nature. That is why Marxists have to use force.

[null and void]

No, Bob Dylan... worst EVER.

Only to people who have never heard Woody Guthrie

[Clintonfatigued]

Billy Joel has done some good work. Not all of his songs are masterpieces, but he has real talent.

[uglybiker]

River of Pee

[LucyJo]

Just had to.... *g*

My Life - Billy Joel

[Revolting cat!]

Danielle Steel sold more books than Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and all writers, who ever lived in San Francisco where she lives, combined!

[Aussiebabe]

I agree, I was going to post the same thing.

[uglybiker]

Joel writes watery pap without a trace of originality.

I think you're confusing Billy Joel with Paul McCartney. ;-)

[Eric Blair 2084]

They “mean well”.

Like they say, if you are not a liberal when you are 20 you have no heart.

If you are not a conservative by the time you are 40 you have no brain.

[Aussiebabe]

Oh, I forgot about him, Springsteen is awful, but I don't know if anyone can be worse than Manilow.

[nickcarraway]

What has Billy Joel ever said about politics?

[Revolting cat!]

Shrug. The Robert Goulet of the 70s generation.

[synbad600]

Why pick on BJ now? He's been around forever.

[Jeff Chandler]

It’s fine to criticize the genre itself

BINGO! Billy Joel does a fine job in his genre. The real problem is people who take pop music seriously. Hey, people, it's just ear candy.

[karibdes]

I do love Piano Man. Can take or leave the rest.

[Eric Blair 2084]

To borrow a phrase from that great poet and philosopher William Joel:

“You may be wrong,
But for all I know,
You may be right.”

[death2tyrants]

He never said he was a victim of circumstance. He still belongs. Don’t get him wrong. Go ahead with your own life, leave him alone.

[bruinbirdman]

Paul Williams

yitbos

[uptoolate]

I just thought that while I was in this “New York State of Mind” I would crack open a bottle of red, or a bottle of white.

[exist]

I am no fan of Billy Joel or gay pop music, but alone, in the privacy of my car, if I hear Billy Joel’s ‘She’s Got A Way’ or ‘For the Longest Time’, I will sing along because those are, I think, to my eternal shame, good pop songs.