He finds those made-up, fictionalВ beliefs deplorable, and so he writes a song about how disgusting they are. The songwriter made up a character based loosely on someone he met briefly at a bar, and then subsequently invents a set of beliefs or thoughts possessed by that character. It is essentially a rant against a woman who doesn't exist. There are no advertisements on this site.When analyzed in isolation, this song is really strange. This is a non-commercial site providing commentary, analysis, and editorial information on Billys songs. This is an unofficial fan site dedicated to the songs and music of Billy Joel, o ne of the most talented and successful musicians in history.

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If you accept the premise of the story long enough to absorb its social commentary, you're still left with one loose end: Why did he have sex with her?В It doesn't seem to be relevant to the social commentary at all, so it must mean something else.The first one is quite unpleasant: he had sex with her as a form of symbolic rape. What if I told you the whole thing was a kink?In cruder language, 'Common People' is about a man who meets a spoiled rich girl who wants to experience life as a regular person, so he screws her and then chews her out for never really being able to understand the plight of the poor. So what exactly is going on here?It's too weird to ignore, so I had to think about it more carefully, and what I realized seemed remarkable. But, importantly, they don't exist. But again, the song isn't actually about real people with real beliefs, it's about imaginary people with imaginary beliefs, and the anger the songwriter feels toward those imaginary things.And what fan could actually enjoyВ lyrics of this kind? Only someone who hates such imaginary people equally.

So, on one level it could be analyzed as a rape fantasy. I reiterate, this is a made-up story this sort of thing absolutely does not happen in real life. ('I want to sleep with common people like you.') This one act is the 'hero's' lone means of achieving control, and so he does it.

Still, the rest of the lyrics are unabashedly fun-loving. This song might, too, be a sort of cross-class rape fantasy Fagen might never be a rare millionaire himself, but he can still canoodle with the daughters of industry. Yeah, you got the muscle, I got the news.' In the bridge, he simply insults her intelligence. The first two that came to mind were Van Halen's 'Beautiful Girls' and Steely Dan's 'I Got the News.'The cynicism in 'I Got the News' isn't apparent until the bridge, but lyricist DonaldВ Fagen gives us a quick glimpse in the first verse when he sings, 'Daddy is a rare millionaire, I don't care. However, I don't think that's the only wayВ to interpret the song, so let's consider a more charitable alternative.As I was trying to wrap my head around this rather strange song, I started thinking of other popular songs that depict a poor male commoner having sex with a rich young debutante.

Some of the lyrics are even cutely tender.'Beautiful Girls' is much different. Maybe his insults are just teasing in good fun. The point of the song is to describe joy, not rage.

Sure, 'she's been living in her white bread world,' but she has 'hot blood' and 'now she's looking for a downtown man.' Joel is more than happy to provide her with what she's looking for. ('Whoa, whoa! Hey, where you goin'.?')Billy Joel offers us a more traditionally romantic take on the idea with his 1983 classic 'Uptown Girl.' Joel puts the woman in control of the story. Note also that his spoken-word during the outro implies that she turned down his advances. I'm struck by how much more pleasant and happy Roth's perspective is, compared to the others. He's just happy to be at the beach with a drink in his hand, on the prowl for beautiful girls. She's rich and he 'ain't no man of the world,' but that's alright with him.

It is an incredibly cerebral story, and one whose main (and quite feminist) themes are as relevant today as they were when the book was written. (Note: I have a HUGE film analysis of Eyes Wide ShutВ in a draft on my blog - it is long over-due and I'm anxious to publish it, but for now.) The protagonists in TramnovelleВ aren't exactly poor, but they're not as rich as the people who frequent the orgies described in the book, either. Today, TramnovelleВ isn't particularly well known, but film buffs know it as being the story upon which the Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide ShutВ is based.

It's always some version of the following:They do it to fit in. So, there it is again.I realize that hundreds of articles have been written about this, and they all say more or less the same thing. And yet the only point at which they are relevant during the story is with respect to the orgy, i.e. They don't feature prominently, they go without saying. Schnitzel doesn'tВ call attention to class differences in the story, he simply takes them for granted.

There are many ways to be attractive to men. AnotherВ way to do it is to be incredibly funny. AnotherВ way to do it is to be incredibly generous. Another way to be attractive to the largest number of people is to be incredibly kind. Thus, girls play dumb to ensure they don't scare off a good man.That's fine, as far as it goes, but it doesn't really answer the question. Consequently, a woman who plays dumb will be less offensive to more people, including the subgroup of people called 'love interests.' The more love interests you consider, the more likely you are to find a good one.

Yeah, it's cheesy, but all of these things are cheesy that they're cheesy doesn't mean that people don't still enjoy them. Think about the classic 'pool boy' thing. Very different.Women will play the rich ditz when it works for them, and when it seems to work best for them is specifically in sexual situations. Unless they're Jane Austen, in which case the story changes from erotica into a tragedy. Sure, women like rich men, but they don't write songs about being poorВ and then 'saved' by a rich guy. Fine, they don't - then why do they like dumbВ girls? And why is having a love interest a good enough reason to play dumb?In other words, if we accept any set of rationale for playing dumb, we're still left wondering, 'Why dumbВ and not something else?'The answer seems obvious to me: Because the Uptown Girl Principle, is common to men and women and it's always Uptown Girls, not Uptown Guys.

They were designed to titillate the parties involved. I don't begrudge a girl her choice in men, but these tapes weren't recorded to pay tribute to a match made in heaven. Women willingly participateВ in the Uptown Girl Principle.And, like any kink, the Uptown Girl Principle is well-represented in the adult content industry.The initial set (the only culturally relevant set) of 'celebrity sex tapes' were the ones featuring Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian playing the role of ditzy young heiress on tape with what were essentially B-list male celebrities in much, much lower income brackets.

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