I don't know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. "Making love to his tonic and gin", something absolutely nobody ever says (it's "gin and tonic"). "Talking to Davy who's still in the navy" is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it's all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is ("man, what are you doin' here?").
Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for "We Didn't Start the Fire".
it’s literally a song about how none of the people who are there should be there, but life happened. and i prefer the song where he maintains the rhyme scheme.
He's said in interviews that those were these people's real names. There was literally a real life dude named Davy who was in the Navy, is that the most unrealistic thing in the world?
18 Comments
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 63 pts · 265d
“Instrumonstrosity” is great.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 265d
It sounds like one of those made-up words from Wicked but actually good
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 265d
La la la aaaah da la la la laaaaaaaaa ah daaaaaa
ooterness@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 265d
Harmonica intensifies
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 265d
Piano-man, piano-man. Does whatever a piano can. Falls on crooks from real high. Squishes them. Kills those guys.
Look out. He is the piano-man
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 265d
Isnt this guy in Mario 64?
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 265d
FarmTaco@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 265d
i still dont trust pianos
FiduciaryOne@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
I need to know if there are still real estate novelists in this universe.
ikon106@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 265d
Either this comic is very very old and someone stole the lyrics without crediting then, or they stole the lyrics without crediting someone.
thelsim@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 265d
The rhyming style sounds so much like the Gruffalo :)
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 265d
I don't know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. "Making love to his tonic and gin", something absolutely nobody ever says (it's "gin and tonic"). "Talking to Davy who's still in the navy" is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it's all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is ("man, what are you doin' here?").
Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for "We Didn't Start the Fire".
Edit: I guess this is not the place for this lol.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 16 pts · 265d
What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 265d
it’s literally a song about how none of the people who are there should be there, but life happened. and i prefer the song where he maintains the rhyme scheme.
DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 265d
He's said in interviews that those were these people's real names. There was literally a real life dude named Davy who was in the Navy, is that the most unrealistic thing in the world?
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 265d
Davy, or Davie, is an actual name that people use. It’s not a butchering of Dave. I have a supervisor named Davie
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 265d
Damn right it is!
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 265d
This guy just likes to hate things.