She’s bought a method — of embarrassing herself.
A younger consumer on X began the fireplace by dissing a universally beloved Billy Joel hit — bizarrely calling the chart-topper she heard for the primary time in an Uber “sinister.”
In her preliminary put up, Gen Zer @plumjae stated she and three others have been left in “dead silence” after listening to the tune on the automobile trip.
No, it wasn’t Joel’s spookier tune “The Stranger” or the downright miserable Vietnam Struggle epic “Goodnight Saigon” — however the spunky “Uptown Girl.”
The apparently troubling tune’s lyrics revolve round a blue-collar man working up the braveness to woo a excessive society gal.
At first, regardless of feeling “the most sinister vibes ever,” the Gen Zer didn’t bear in mind the tune’s identify till later posting its music video, which confirmed Lengthy Island’s pleasure and pleasure donned up as a musical mechanic.
“I do not like the energy this song brought into the car,” she added.
The consumer even added that she feared the “Uber was just gonna drive us off the road.”
The social media large shot’s January 4 put up shortly went viral for the longest time with 30 million views.
Nevertheless, she was met with a stormfront of backlash as of us on-line weren’t afraid to inform her about it.
“Sorry to inform you there is not ONE Billy Joel song with ‘sinister vibes,’” one replied.
“I’ve now listened to this song 30 times in the last day bc of this tweet. I hope it’s grown on you since you first heard it [because] man, what a classic bop,” one other added.
“Well, I’m glad you’re ok. That’s the important thing. Had it been Huey Lewis and the News, I’m not sure you’d have made it out,” a 3rd snarked.
Relating to its so-called “vibes,” what’s the 1983 “Uptown Girl” truly impressed by? You oughta know by now.
Joel initially drummed up the concept one night time whereas spending time along with his then-girlfriend, supermodel Elle Macpherson, Whitney Houston, and his future ex-wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley, in St. Barts, Brinkley instructed Howard Stern nearly a decade in the past.
Brinkley, who seems within the “Uptown Girl” music video, added that Joel instructed her, “‘I was writing a song about you, and I didn’t even know it.’”
In 1987, two years after they wed, Joel instructed Q Journal, “The fact that I can attract such a beautiful woman as Christie should give hope to every ugly guy in the world.”
