Watch the story Billy Joel tells on Howard Stern. He met Elle McPherson, Christie Brinkley, and Whitney Houston all at the same time in the Bahamas. So he and Christie Brinkley were already a couple here after heb briefly dated Elle McPherson.@@leannmiller7153
Go look at a pic of Christie Brinkley in her 70's today, your jaw will STILL hit the floor. I was 10 when I became aware of her. She is timeless. NOBODY could believe it when he landed her. She was the TOP model for years.
@@bkm2797 Christie is also on the poster on the inside of the locker door behind Billy, too, but the OP was talking about her now and what she looks like today, having entered her 70s earlier on this year. She is still a nice looking woman but definitely has had a little help these days though.
Joel was already famous and well known guy at this point and could have any woman he wanted, and he did but I think he was so humble to still think that she was not attainable for a guy from a working class background.
The whole album (Glass Houses) was a smorgasbord of various genres of rock 7& roll, past and present. This was Joel's tribute to street-corner doo-wop music.
I was thinking the same thing. I have always heard white bread and took it to mean white bread world while poor folks be eatin' that cheap brown bread.
Exactly....sometimes the things that were plain to us (back in the day), aren't so plain to people who have never heard them. The context is everything, and anyone watching an old movie or video needs to keep this in mind. ( To understand that words may have meant something different in the era of the movie/video, then it does now) The common quotes or sayings were just that...sayings..a way to say "rich" without saying the word "rich".
My Dad was literally born on the wrong side of the tracks & my Mom was the daughter of the richest family in the town they grew up in. They got married & were married 58 years before my Dad died. I admired their marriage & made sure that my husband & I worked on our marriage of 31 years before he died. Love Billy Joe songs .
for the 80s, in all honesty, it could be interpreted as both. The mega-rich community in the 80s was almost exclusively white (IIRC); but also, financially, white bread was usually more expensive than wheat bread.
It just doesn’t make sense that a white dude would be accusing this chick of being white. Like what? He’s saying white bread, as in bland. I know everybody has already told him he got it wrong in the comments but this obsession about race needs to stop. It’s freaking tiring.
@@KLForbes I'm saying the same thing as you. I just don't get how the reactor can think Billy would make an issue of her being white while he's white himself. The reactor is making it about race when it has nothing to do with race. I'm questioning HIS logical thinking.
The White Bred lyric is not talking race. It's talking the about the food -bread. The captioning is incorrect on the video. The phrase "White Bread" means "bland." The uptown girl lives a nice but boring and bland life. Billy is going to change that into something more exciting.
Also a distinction between the rich and poor. Rich ppl could afford white bread, while the poor could only afford the lesser brown bread. (before we learned that white bread isn't as healthy xD)
The quintessential story of two people from “ opposite sides of the tracks” coming together story is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. FYI, the Backstreet Boys took their name from the “Backstreet Market” in Orlando, Florida. As other’s have mentioned, despite the captioning, it’s “ White Bread” meaning plain, ordinary, or sometimes meaning privileged. A few on-line lyric sources spell it “ White Bred”, but most as “ White Bread”.
I love Billy Joel! He was playing on Grammys on the night Sinatra was honored for lifetime achievement and the producers cut off to commercial during Sinatra's speech. When Joel did his set of River of Dreams, he stopped his band and stopped singing looked at his watch and started saying "valuable advertising time going by" multiple times!! 😂
You NEED to do Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. It has a story like Piano Man and you can picture the couple he sings about going from high school sweethearts to married life to divorce and beyond. It's a great song and you will picture a couple you know as you listen. Especially if you grew up in NYC because we all knew a couple like this one.
The 2 young black dancers. Billy saw them dancing on a street corner. Asked them to be in his video. Of course in real. Life, he married that uptown girl.
The Backstreet Boys were named after the Backstreet Market in Orlando where a lot of kids hung out. Billy's singing about backstreet guys who were just dudes in lived in the rougher parts of town.
Christy Brinkley has been on fire for 50 damn years. So fricking classically beautiful, no surgery BS, sigh. She is the girl in first Vacation movie in red the Ferrari.
His concerts are incredible. He always plays at least one ACDC song because he says that they write the complete songs and he loves their music. He even m has had Brian Johnson come and sing it with him when he performs it.
White bread, it means a boring, bland life, unexciting life. Basically, she leads an unexciting life, and a backstreet guy can give her excitement that the other guys can't give her.
Checkout all of the Billy Joel you can! He's my favorite solo artist. If you want another one of his do-whop songs with high harmonies, I recommend "The Longest Time".
When he wrote the song it was for his girlfriend at the time Elle McPherson, by the time he decided to record and release the track he was dating Christie Brinkley (the woman in the video) who he went onto marry. Billy has definitely had his share of uptown girls.
This song was HUGE, catchy, and especially popular because Christy Brinkley was in it. (They were married) This was totally a pop chart song and not like "Piano Man" "We Didn't Start the Fire" nor "New York State of Mind" Thank you for your great reaction. Billy Joel writes so very many more songs than he ever recorded for himself.....look in the writing credits of some of the great songs from 1980 to present.
@Renee-Suzanne - Not trying to be a dick here but it is not really the case when you say: "Billy Joel writes so very many more songs than he ever recorded for himself.....look in the writing credits of some of the great songs from 1980 to present". He records himself what he has written but several others then go on to also do covers of his songs and some of those covers go back to the 1970s too.
@@seanscanlon9067 I agree that he has recorded so very many songs he penned himself and that many have been covered. I only meant that he has also written many songs for other artists.
@@Renee-Suzanne Yeah I thought that was perhaps what you meant but again, not meaning this in a bad way but that is not really the case though. Billy has never written anything for other artists per se to record, he has written songs for him to do so but then others have covered them later on, even if some songs might be more familiar as the covers rather than Billy's original recordings.
Backstreet Boys name - Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlando's Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout
My daughter several years ago when she was about 16 came out of her room and said, “Mom! I just discovered this singer named Billy Joel! He’s amazing!”😂😂😂I told her to listen to We Didn’t Start the Fire.🔥🔥🔥
I remember when my son "discovered" Jimi Hendrix, Supertramp, & a few others [popular before he was born] when he was 14. 😂 He was shocked when I simply told him to go look at my cassettes & albums. For a few hours I was "cool." 😎
His second wife his first wife was Elizabeth Weber Small from 1973-1982 He married Christie Brinkley in 1985-1994 then went on to marry Katie Lee (Food network) from 2004-2009 and is now married to Alexis Roderick.
Billy Joel is an American treasure! His music videos were legendary! He ended up marrying the beautiful woman he meets in this video. That’s the lovely Christie Brinkley, supermodel. He’s amazingly talented in every possible musical way. Composer, lyricist, pianist, multi instrumentalist, vocalist and video creator. You will be blown away as you explore more of his catalogue. His live performances are amazing too. I’m sure your other subscribers will recommend all the best songs. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and look forward to more reactions to Billy Joel. I hope you will also revisit Linda Ronstadt. 🌺✌️
@@andreaschmall5560 Dad left the family to return to Austria when Joel was only 4 years old (so grew up fatherless). Career very nearly killed with his first attempt to record in his early 20s; that's when he hid out on the West Coast playing piano bars under an assumed name (so his contract would time out; wrote "Piano Man" based on his experiences, which was so successful Columbia Records reversed its decision to drop him, saving his career, but still edited "Piano Man" down for broadcast time). First wife pushed him to perform constantly, her brother managed him and embezzled tens of millions of dollars from him (making up the money meant he had to tour hard, which cost him his second marriage; the betrayal gutted him). That's just off the top.
@@chris...9497 Add two suicide attempts that later led to his song You’re Only Human (Second Wind) and even before he was born, his family had to flee the Nazis and ended up losing their textile business in Germany. There is a documentary on it called The Joel Files. And I think Billy was nearer seven or eight when his dad left the family home. And not trying to be a dick here because you have the basis of the story right, but Columbia Records actually took over his contract around the time of Captain Jack and Piano Man, having negotiated a release from his previous record company.
Song from my youth. Keep up the Billy Joel. Great songwriter. Check out, You may be Right, And so it Goes, My Life , Don't let the sun go down on Me. Etc etc. so many great songs
There is also River of Dreams as another style of song from Billy. You were looking away so I don't think you noticed the billboard for Uptown Cosmetics at the beginning. I'm pretty sure the lyric is "white bread" not "white-bred" as shown (an obvious mistake by a ill-educated and youngster seeing racism everywhere). It references the old stereotype of the upper crust being able to afford white flour while the lower classes ate whole wheat. This was reversed around the 1900's as commercial processing brought down the cost of white flour and the introduction of Wonder Bread pre-sliced bread brought 'rich people's bread' to everyone in the 20's. The upper crust realizing the health benefits of whole grains through the 50's and 60's then eschewed white bread and it is now the reverse situation. But Billy was definitely referencing the older trope.
Saw him in 2000 in Tampa on Valentine's day with my hubby. It was his first retirement tour 😅 he's had several retirement tours since ❤️ he was funny and phenomenal
Yup! Saw Billy Joel and Elton John in Orlando, FL , in the 1980's! It was amazing, both on a piano! My family and friends, my parents, Aunt and Uncle the whole "fam Damnly". Such a great concert! It was when "the Lion King" cartoon came out. Pretty sure they collaborated on the lyrics to the theme song of the movie.
Please do “Still Rock and Roll to Me”. I can’t help but be sympathetic to the plight of reactors trying to categorize everything by genre … when so much of it is hue and nuance. I think you’ll appreciate the idea. I remember watching this video as a kid SO many times (as happened to most of us kids home for the summer with MTV). I’ll never forget Billy’s sideways trot at 4:10 , or the fun syncopated rag buffing at 7:38 . 😅 And you’ve hit it on the head with the dystopian nightmare talk … 9:32 - I FEEL so intensely for my kid and his generation and the lack of positivity they are trying to LIVE in. Anyway … good stuff. Thanks!
Great reaction! (And I rarely say great reaction.) You were jamming, you were dancing, you were reacting. And you had good commentary! (Yeah, forget that dystopia 💩) This was FUN! Thanks BP!
Always liked Billy Joel and this is one of my favorite songs by him. Like someone else mentioned, Christie Brinkley and and Billy Joel actually did become a couple & married. She was a supermodel, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, etc and is still quite beautiful today. If you like this song, you'll also like "For the Longest Time". The vocals on that are awesome.
11:03 Hey, Pegasus, here's a few other Billy Joel songs that you might like: Allentown Myself Life For The Longest Time Tell Her About It It's Still Rock'N'Roll To Me Keeping The Faith A Matter Of Trust
You need to hear more of his songs! I have a feeling you’ll love River of Dreams because it throws another curve ball in styles he can play with! I haven’t seen the music video for that one.
I am enjoying your reactions to new to you music. It's refreshing to see someone discover some of the old classics. A good one from Billy Joel for you to check out is For the Longest Time. I would love to see your reaction.
Loved your reaction. This is my era along with Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons - which of course transitioned me to the Backstreet Boys decades later. Loved each of their sounds. Also I agree with someone comment that white-bread refers to 'refined' sugar used to make those little squares of cakes you would see upscaled parties. They are called Petit-fours. Thank you for your open opinions.
The term uptown verses downtown is strictly economic terms rich versus poor. The white bread comment is because white bread was more expensive than the wheat bread. So more poor people were eating the wheat, because the white bread meant you had money.
Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlando's Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout.
I love your reaction!! We were happy in the 80's! MTV rocked back then with the best videos and songs! I was raising little kids then and MTV was my entertainment! Billy Joel rocked it!
I think it says white bread world, meaning the good and back then fancy stuff. The lovely lady in the video was his then or soon to be wife model Christy Brinkley.
I LOVE when you get up and start dancing! You did to to Devil went down to Georgia and I spit out my beer!
It was a real story for Billy Joel. The uptown girl was his wife, super model, Christie Brinkley.
They had a child together.
And she looks just like him.@@decolonizeEverywhere
Watch the story Billy Joel tells on Howard Stern. He met Elle McPherson, Christie Brinkley, and Whitney Houston all at the same time in the Bahamas. So he and Christie Brinkley were already a couple here after heb briefly dated Elle McPherson.@@leannmiller7153
Bruh,educate yourself more young man. Westside story
She’s got cancer now, but I think she’s ok
I think New York State of mind is my favorite song of his
There are so so many songs to choose from.
Go look at a pic of Christie Brinkley in her 70's today, your jaw will STILL hit the floor. I was 10 when I became aware of her. She is timeless. NOBODY could believe it when he landed her. She was the TOP model for years.
She's in this video, so he can see Christy here,lol! She's in the limo.
@@bkm2797, don't forget about her in National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase. The girl in the Ferrari.
@@bkm2797 Christie is also on the poster on the inside of the locker door behind Billy, too, but the OP was talking about her now and what she looks like today, having entered her 70s earlier on this year.
She is still a nice looking woman but definitely has had a little help these days though.
He's an impressive man, now and then. People could "believe it" regarding landing her. Everything isn't about looks, and he was also attractive.
Joel was already famous and well known guy at this point and could have any woman he wanted, and he did but I think he was so humble to still think that she was not attainable for a guy from a working class background.
This was Billy Joel's tribute to "Frankie Valli and the Fours Seasons" music.
Frankie Valli Concert at Carowinds closed the park because of max capacity
The whole album (Glass Houses) was a smorgasbord of various genres of rock 7& roll, past and present. This was Joel's tribute to street-corner doo-wop music.
@@gizmo5925 This is off the album "An Innocent Man".
@@ericthuemmel5275 Not the first time I made this kind of error. I need to start verifying what I think I remember.
lots of 50s love going on in the 80s. BACK TO THE FUTURE anyone? ;)
White bread. Bread. Refined flour. No racism here.
Yes, it refers to those who have money.
Correct, "white bread" as in bland/typical/conventional, etc. The CC caption of "white-bred" from UA-cam is wrong.
I was thinking the same thing. I have always heard white bread and took it to mean white bread world while poor folks be eatin' that cheap brown bread.
@@jaceywarren1528, yeah I think that's it , because historically that was an thing .
Exactly....sometimes the things that were plain to us (back in the day), aren't so plain to people who have never heard them.
The context is everything, and anyone watching an old movie or video needs to keep this in mind.
( To understand that words may have meant something different in the era of the movie/video, then it does now)
The common quotes or sayings were just that...sayings..a way to say "rich" without saying the word "rich".
He's working-class, she's high-class. He knows he's punching up.
New York State of Mind at the Grey Whistle, it’s the best version! I love your channel!
If you react to all of Billy Joel's hits your unborn daughter will be in high school before you're done!
That was a great ❤
Fact.
Point well taken!!😅
Too funny!
lol!
Backstreet boys is an old expression for boys from the other side of the track ❤
This was my first time seeing the video, too! That was super cool! And u will love New York State of Mind! It's a whole different vibe!
My Dad was literally born on the wrong side of the tracks & my Mom was the daughter of the richest family in the town they grew up in. They got married & were married 58 years before my Dad died. I admired their marriage & made sure that my husband & I worked on our marriage of 31 years before he died. Love Billy Joe songs .
I was raised in a lower middle class family and my wife’s father was once the Health Commissioner of NYC. He will be married 47 years next month.
My understanding is it wasn't "white-bred" but "white-bread" world. High class, nothing but the best, etc. Financial, not racial.
yours and everyone else's. this guy's looking at the woke youtube captions and accepting it verbatim.
for the 80s, in all honesty, it could be interpreted as both. The mega-rich community in the 80s was almost exclusively white (IIRC); but also, financially, white bread was usually more expensive than wheat bread.
It just doesn’t make sense that a white dude would be accusing this chick of being white. Like what? He’s saying white bread, as in bland. I know everybody has already told him he got it wrong in the comments but this obsession about race needs to stop. It’s freaking tiring.
@@v.j.3029 He's not accusing her of being "white", he's accusing her of being rich.
nothing to do with race, everything to do with financial standing.
@@KLForbes I'm saying the same thing as you. I just don't get how the reactor can think Billy would make an issue of her being white while he's white himself. The reactor is making it about race when it has nothing to do with race. I'm questioning HIS logical thinking.
The White Bred lyric is not talking race. It's talking the about the food -bread. The captioning is incorrect on the video. The phrase "White Bread" means "bland." The uptown girl lives a nice but boring and bland life. Billy is going to change that into something more exciting.
Also a distinction between the rich and poor. Rich ppl could afford white bread, while the poor could only afford the lesser brown bread. (before we learned that white bread isn't as healthy xD)
The quintessential story of two people from “ opposite sides of the tracks” coming together story is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. FYI, the Backstreet Boys took their name from the “Backstreet Market” in Orlando, Florida. As other’s have mentioned, despite the captioning, it’s “ White Bread” meaning plain, ordinary, or sometimes meaning privileged. A few on-line lyric sources spell it “ White Bred”, but most as “ White Bread”.
I love Billy Joel! He was playing on Grammys on the night Sinatra was honored for lifetime achievement and the producers cut off to commercial during Sinatra's speech. When Joel did his set of River of Dreams, he stopped his band and stopped singing looked at his watch and started saying "valuable advertising time going by" multiple times!! 😂
Priceless!!
"Goodnight Saigon" is a great one from Billy Joel
I love that when uses this song in concert he finds local Vietnam and other vets to sing in the song.
Such a powerful song.
You know it’s a banger when BP is dancing😂😂
Nothing special at his age, but in 27 years, we'll see
You NEED to do Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.
It has a story like Piano Man and you can picture the couple he sings about going from high school sweethearts to married life to divorce and beyond. It's a great song and you will picture a couple you know as you listen. Especially if you grew up in NYC because we all knew a couple like this one.
The 2 young black dancers. Billy saw them dancing on a street corner. Asked them to be in his video. Of course in real. Life, he married that uptown girl.
The Backstreet Boys were named after the Backstreet Market in Orlando where a lot of kids hung out. Billy's singing about backstreet guys who were just dudes in lived in the rougher parts of town.
Christy Brinkley has been on fire for 50 damn years. So fricking classically beautiful, no surgery BS, sigh. She is the girl in first Vacation movie in red the Ferrari.
She is still breathtaking and looks maybe 50 (and I'm pushing that one!)
I want to know what her secret is
No surgery? Have you seen her?
Yes and no surgery. It is possible to be older and attractive and no surgery.@@NeptuneLady1957
@@NeptuneLady1957 These days yes but not back then.
Lots of surgery in addition to winning the genetic lottery doesn’t hurt!
His concerts are incredible. He always plays at least one ACDC song because he says that they write the complete songs and he loves their music. He even m has had Brian Johnson come and sing it with him when he performs it.
I always thought it was "bread" not "bred" White Bread makes more sense.
It is Bread.
Your right.... It's Bread. Sometimes lyrics aren't right on some of these videos.
White bread, it means a boring, bland life, unexciting life. Basically, she leads an unexciting life, and a backstreet guy can give her excitement that the other guys can't give her.
It's Still Rock N Roll To Me is another fun Billy Joel song if you want good mood music 🎶
Checkout all of the Billy Joel you can! He's my favorite solo artist. If you want another one of his do-whop songs with high harmonies, I recommend "The Longest Time".
Yes definitely I was gonna recommend this one too the longest time is on of my favorite’s
The "harmonies" are with Billy himself, as he sings all of the parts and voices on The Longest Time.
He might be considered a solo artist but his band is fire!!
When he wrote the song it was for his girlfriend at the time Elle McPherson, by the time he decided to record and release the track he was dating Christie Brinkley (the woman in the video) who he went onto marry. Billy has definitely had his share of uptown girls.
This song was HUGE, catchy, and especially popular because Christy Brinkley was in it. (They were married) This was totally a pop chart song and not like "Piano Man" "We Didn't Start the Fire" nor "New York State of Mind" Thank you for your great reaction. Billy Joel writes so very many more songs than he ever recorded for himself.....look in the writing credits of some of the great songs from 1980 to present.
Hell yes he was a very lucky man to have Christy. All men envy him so much.
@Renee-Suzanne - Not trying to be a dick here but it is not really the case when you say:
"Billy Joel writes so very many more songs than he ever recorded for himself.....look in the writing credits of some of the great songs from 1980 to present".
He records himself what he has written but several others then go on to also do covers of his songs and some of those covers go back to the 1970s too.
@@seanscanlon9067 I agree that he has recorded so very many songs he penned himself and that many have been covered. I only meant that he has also written many songs for other artists.
@@Renee-Suzanne Yeah I thought that was perhaps what you meant but again, not meaning this in a bad way but that is not really the case though.
Billy has never written anything for other artists per se to record, he has written songs for him to do so but then others have covered them later on, even if some songs might be more familiar as the covers rather than Billy's original recordings.
I absolutely loved this song as a small child.
It's official: Favorite Reaction Of All Time!!! Your utter delight and joy over this song and video is everything!!
😂😂😂brilliant reaction 😂
Backstreet Boys name - Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlando's Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout
Dude just reads wayyyyyy too much into absolutely nothing. 😂😂😂❤
And that's why I so enjoy your reactions -- no dystopia here, no matter the song, the lyrics, or the group!
My daughter several years ago when she was about 16 came out of her room and said, “Mom! I just discovered this singer named Billy Joel! He’s amazing!”😂😂😂I told her to listen to We Didn’t Start the Fire.🔥🔥🔥
I remember when my son "discovered" Jimi Hendrix, Supertramp, & a few others [popular before he was born] when he was 14. 😂 He was shocked when I simply told him to go look at my cassettes & albums. For a few hours I was "cool." 😎
Billy Joel
A Matter Of Trust
That uptown girl in the video Christy Brinkley became his first wife
Brinkley was his second wife.
His second wife his first wife was Elizabeth Weber Small from 1973-1982 He married Christie Brinkley in 1985-1994 then went on to marry Katie Lee (Food network) from 2004-2009 and is now married to Alexis Roderick.
Just the way you are was written for his 1st wife Elizabeth and her brother was the one who managed Bully's early career and stole millions from him.
One of my favs is For the longest time by Billy Joel
His album Glass House's, for me, was the soundtrack of my senior year 79/80
Every single song on this album was fire 🔥
Same for me, senior year was 80/81. Got to see him in concert in 82. He’s still fire today!
All for Leyna!
This song brings back loads of nostalgia. I remember when we were teenagers, my sister used to love this and played it loads, lol. 👍🏻
Billy Joel is an American treasure! His music videos were legendary! He ended up marrying the beautiful woman he meets in this video. That’s the lovely Christie Brinkley, supermodel. He’s amazingly talented in every possible musical way. Composer, lyricist, pianist, multi instrumentalist, vocalist and video creator. You will be blown away as you explore more of his catalogue. His live performances are amazing too. I’m sure your other subscribers will recommend all the best songs. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and look forward to more reactions to Billy Joel. I hope you will also revisit Linda Ronstadt. 🌺✌️
Saw him in concert in the early 2000’s and it was amazing. He’s a showman, an absolutely great performer and storyteller.
Saw Billy Joel and Elton a few years ago. Was great!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this reaction, yes this is such a feel good song that just makes ya wanna dance and smile
I adore your reactions! This is my feeling today ...sky is downcast and rainy and a song that i recall in the 80s ! Precious!😊
New york state of mine is my all time favorite by Billy Joel.
There are so many hits of his. I sincerely hope you do a deep dive. He has an incredible catalog and a fairly sad life story.
What sad story?
@@andreaschmall5560 Dad left the family to return to Austria when Joel was only 4 years old (so grew up fatherless).
Career very nearly killed with his first attempt to record in his early 20s; that's when he hid out on the West Coast playing piano bars under an assumed name (so his contract would time out; wrote "Piano Man" based on his experiences, which was so successful Columbia Records reversed its decision to drop him, saving his career, but still edited "Piano Man" down for broadcast time).
First wife pushed him to perform constantly, her brother managed him and embezzled tens of millions of dollars from him (making up the money meant he had to tour hard, which cost him his second marriage; the betrayal gutted him).
That's just off the top.
@@chris...9497 Add two suicide attempts that later led to his song You’re Only Human (Second Wind) and even before he was born, his family had to flee the Nazis and ended up losing their textile business in Germany. There is a documentary on it called The Joel Files. And I think Billy was nearer seven or eight when his dad left the family home.
And not trying to be a dick here because you have the basis of the story right, but Columbia Records actually took over his contract around the time of Captain Jack and Piano Man, having negotiated a release from his previous record company.
Song from my youth. Keep up the Billy Joel. Great songwriter. Check out, You may be Right, And so it Goes, My Life , Don't let the sun go down on Me. Etc etc. so many great songs
I want to say thanks for being real and speaking your truth, I appreciate you
white bread = upper crust, well to do ... backstreet boys = common working man, in the shops on the 'backstreets'
One of the best music video ever.
I love how much you got into this video..... Got up and danced and everything
Great song been listening to Joel since Piano man debut 1973.
Great reaction. Johnny Rivers “Poor Side of Town” has a poor boy welcoming a poor girl back to the other side of the tracks. A #1 song from 1966.
Awesome. I love this song. Greetings from Brazil.
My sons are 50, 48 & 46. It is so enjoyable watching you watching music you 'know' and where it 'really' came from.
There is also River of Dreams as another style of song from Billy.
You were looking away so I don't think you noticed the billboard for Uptown Cosmetics at the beginning.
I'm pretty sure the lyric is "white bread" not "white-bred" as shown (an obvious mistake by a ill-educated and youngster seeing racism everywhere). It references the old stereotype of the upper crust being able to afford white flour while the lower classes ate whole wheat. This was reversed around the 1900's as commercial processing brought down the cost of white flour and the introduction of Wonder Bread pre-sliced bread brought 'rich people's bread' to everyone in the 20's. The upper crust realizing the health benefits of whole grains through the 50's and 60's then eschewed white bread and it is now the reverse situation. But Billy was definitely referencing the older trope.
Bred=money. 😅
Actually, the sign is visible, upper left corner, at the very end of the video-- after Billy and Christie disappeared on their motorcycle.
Another fun Billy Joel song is "A Matter of Trust". One of my favorites and very underrated. 🔥❤️
Great reaction.Billy Joel is a genius.
Love this song 💕
Love that you love this so much!! Such a GREAT song!!!!
yeah this is one of those songs that will just put a smile on your face
Billy Joel is one of the best Story Tellers in Songs, a Genius Musician
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I could see why you'd thought that "Uptown Girl" was a song by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, as it does have that feel to it
It's actually a nod by Billy Joel to Frankie Valli and the Four seasons.
@@decolonizeEverywhere well, that makes sense as to why it sounds like it could've been his material
Saw him in 2000 in Tampa on Valentine's day with my hubby. It was his first retirement tour 😅 he's had several retirement tours since ❤️ he was funny and phenomenal
Billy Joel🔥
Yup! Saw Billy Joel and Elton John in Orlando, FL , in the 1980's!
It was amazing, both on a piano! My family and friends, my parents, Aunt and Uncle the whole "fam Damnly".
Such a great concert!
It was when "the Lion King" cartoon came out. Pretty sure they collaborated on the lyrics to the theme song of the movie.
Please do “Still Rock and Roll to Me”. I can’t help but be sympathetic to the plight of reactors trying to categorize everything by genre … when so much of it is hue and nuance. I think you’ll appreciate the idea.
I remember watching this video as a kid SO many times (as happened to most of us kids home for the summer with MTV). I’ll never forget Billy’s sideways trot at 4:10 , or the fun syncopated rag buffing at 7:38 . 😅 And you’ve hit it on the head with the dystopian nightmare talk … 9:32 - I FEEL so intensely for my kid and his generation and the lack of positivity they are trying to LIVE in. Anyway … good stuff. Thanks!
Great reaction! (And I rarely say great reaction.) You were jamming, you were dancing, you were reacting. And you had good commentary! (Yeah, forget that dystopia 💩) This was FUN! Thanks BP!
I freaking love this!
This song and video are as fresh & exciting as when I first heard them in 83!!!
Love the song and the video, thank you for making watching this so fun!
You are so right!
Your happiness is contagious! I have lived Billy for decades! Seen him in concert three times. He is INCREDIBLE live. !!!🩷💜🌷
I still say For the Longest Time is my favorite Billy Joel song.
Me too
I got to go to a concert with Billy Joel and Elton John in college. It was incredible!
Love watching you getting hype over Billy Joel. Definitely one of my all-time favorite artists.
Always liked Billy Joel and this is one of my favorite songs by him. Like someone else mentioned, Christie Brinkley and and Billy Joel actually did become a couple & married. She was a supermodel, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, etc and is still quite beautiful today.
If you like this song, you'll also like "For the Longest Time". The vocals on that are awesome.
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Hey, Pegasus, here's a few other Billy Joel songs that you might like:
Allentown
Myself Life
For The Longest Time
Tell Her About It
It's Still Rock'N'Roll To Me
Keeping The Faith
A Matter Of Trust
Very uplifting and fun!! 🔥💝💞
Love the energy! Great reaction.
You need to hear more of his songs! I have a feeling you’ll love River of Dreams because it throws another curve ball in styles he can play with! I haven’t seen the music video for that one.
Such a great song that my dear grandmother loved it! It made her happy she would always say.
This was huge back in the day. You keep reacting to great music, and I love your honest reactions😂.
I am enjoying your reactions to new to you music. It's refreshing to see someone discover some of the old classics. A good one from Billy Joel for you to check out is For the Longest Time. I would love to see your reaction.
Great reaction video and to Billy Joel one of the GOAT's... man im back in my teens again.
Loved this reaction, and entirely agree with your sentiments. Unity, all one, peace, the way to go.
Loved your reaction. This is my era along with Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons - which of course transitioned me to the Backstreet Boys decades later. Loved each of their sounds. Also I agree with someone comment that white-bread refers to 'refined' sugar used to make those little squares of cakes you would see upscaled parties. They are called Petit-fours. Thank you for your open opinions.
The term uptown verses downtown is strictly economic terms rich versus poor. The white bread comment is because white bread was more expensive than the wheat bread. So more poor people were eating the wheat, because the white bread meant you had money.
Seen him in concert several times. Epic!
Love this song. I had not seen the video before. Love this so very much. Love your reaction! ♥❤🔥
Yesssss! More billy joel! MOOOOOAR! 😊💜💜
You are so right on with your commentary!!!
I love your videos so much because of your commentary, plus hearing the hits from when I was a teenager. You made my day. Thanks!
I saw him back in the late 80's and he is incredible live
Getting so hyped for this song/video is the correct response. ❤
Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlando's Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout.
I love your reaction!! We were happy in the 80's! MTV rocked back then with the best videos and songs! I was raising little kids then and MTV was my entertainment! Billy Joel rocked it!
ONE of Billy Joel’s best. ❤️✌🏻🎶
Billy Joel - River of Dreams!
If you want some Billy that will make you cry, especially in relation to your new baby girl, check out Billy Joel, Lullaby. It is one of my favorites.
I think it says white bread world, meaning the good and back then fancy stuff. The lovely lady in the video was his then or soon to be wife model Christy Brinkley.
Yeah, what the heck with the "white-bred" ... it was (is) "white-bread" lol.