Friday, April 6, 2012
Give the Piano Man His Song!
The other day at work the song Piano Man came onto the radio. And of course, me being the enormous Billy Joel fan that I am, was singing along word for word. When it came to the time when he sings about John at the bar, it cut out an entire section of the song! It was like John at the bar is a friend of mine...then cut to the chorus. How are people supposed to know he wants to be a movie star, I ask you?? Come on Kool 103.9, just play the whole song! I mean, you play the entirety of American Pie, you can play the entirety of Piano Man. I am pretty sure that Billy Joel has risen to the point in his career that you shouldn't go cut off his most quintessential song. I mean listen to the his song he wrote at the beginning of his career, The Entertainer. "It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long. If you're gonna have a hit, you've gotta make it fit. So they cut it down to 3:05." Yep, he was talking about Piano Man. And apparently Kool 103.9 is stuck in the seventies, because every other radio channel plays the entire song now. Geez. Well there is my rant....now you can adequately know how crazy I am haha (if you hadn't already caught on that is.)
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I wholeheartedly AGREE!
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