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
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".
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!! 😂
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.
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.
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 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. 🌺✌️
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. The Backstreet Boys performed their first show at SeaWorld Orlando on May 8, 1993.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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
This past weekend in New York City, Billy Joel performed his 100th show at that venue in his 40 year career! Yes, he performed Uptown Girl, and the cameras were showing on the huge screen, yup, Christy Brinkley, the Uptown Girl herself, singing along! It was incredible! Also, their daughter came on stage and performed for her dad! U must look it up on TH-cam!❤❤
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's "Glass Houses" was the first EIGHT TRACK! album I ever bought with my own money! "It's Still Rock-n-Roll to Me" was one of the first absolute jams of my life! Wore that sucker out!💯
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.
If you still get traditional TV, you should check your on demand for the Billy Joel special that was on this last week. It was in celebration of his 100th sold out concert at Madison Square Garden. He's been playing there once a month for approx. 10 years. One song he does, he debuted at the Grammys this year. It's the first song he's written in 30 years. It's really good.
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.
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.
Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley had a daughter Alexa Ray Joel. The middle name “Ray” was to honor Ray Charles, who Billy did a duet with called Grand Piano. Alexa Ray is also a musician taking after her father I believe she does shows in New York City.
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!
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.
As soon as i saw this I remembered the music video on VH1 ...that's where he met his wife, can't remember her name, the model ....dated and married Great Video!!!!! Love Billy Joel , his talent is incredible in somany ways!!! Glad he's still with us and performing ❤ 🎶 🎵 🏍 Christie Brinkley thanks for helping me out with her full name !!! White Breed Girl, high class world!!!!
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.
You nailed it! We had so much hope back then despite the challenges of racism, war, pollution, fighting for democracy, blah, blah. we believed we could change it all.
That was the beauty of growing up in the 70s and 80s when music came on vinyl and cassette and you had album covers with lyrics printed on them and magazines that came out weekly with some lyrics in them. Something that streaming will never be able to recreate
This was one of my jams when I was a young teen,lol…Ive always liked the idea of a couple from opposite sides of the track meeting and falling in love against odds.😄
He wrote this about his then wife, supermodel, Christie Brinkley. That’s her dancing with him in the video! They have one daughter, Alexa Ray- named after Billy’s idol, Ray Charles.
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!
@@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.
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 and Christie have a daughter Alexa Ray ( for Ray Charles). Recently at Madison Sq Alexa sang "To Sir, With Love" to her father during his concert. Christie (The Uptown Girl ) was there having a blast! She posted an amazing video on Instagram. Love your channel and loving your Billy journey.
I love Billy Joel. Garth Brooks is also a big Billy fan and Billy let him do a cover of Billys song Shameless. For what ever reason Shameless wasnt a huge hit for Billy, but it was a mega hit for Garth. You should do a rea tion on it. Shameless written by Billy Joel and preformed by Garth Brooks. Its really great!
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.
@lynnbird5753 When he wrote it he was dating Supermodel Elle McPherson, but they had broken up. He met Christy when they filmed Uptown Girl.
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
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 TH-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".
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.
There are so so many songs to choose from.
I think New York State of mind is my favorite song of his
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.
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? ;)
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!
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!
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.
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.
Backstreet boys is an old expression for boys from the other side of the track ❤
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!
Music can bring people together. We need more of the old school music, instruments, messages, writing.
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!!
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!
I absolutely loved this song as a small child.
Your happiness is contagious! I have lived Billy for decades! Seen him in concert three times. He is INCREDIBLE live. !!!🩷💜🌷
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.
"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.
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 adore your reactions! This is my feeling today ...sky is downcast and rainy and a song that i recall in the 80s ! Precious!😊
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
Seen him in concert several times. Epic!
New york state of mine is my all time favorite by Billy Joel.
Awesome. I love this song. Greetings from Brazil.
It's Still Rock N Roll To Me is another fun Billy Joel song if you want good mood music 🎶
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. 🌺✌️
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. The Backstreet Boys performed their first show at SeaWorld Orlando on May 8, 1993.
Billy Joel
A Matter Of Trust
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.
It's official: Favorite Reaction Of All Time!!! Your utter delight and joy over this song and video is everything!!
😂😂😂brilliant reaction 😂
You know it’s a banger when BP is dancing😂😂
Nothing special at his age, but in 27 years, we'll see
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.
Great reaction.Billy Joel is a genius.
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.
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!!
This song and video are as fresh & exciting as when I first heard them in 83!!!
I got to go to a concert with Billy Joel and Elton John in college. It was incredible!
My sons are 50, 48 & 46. It is so enjoyable watching you watching music you 'know' and where it 'really' came from.
Great song been listening to Joel since Piano man debut 1973.
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.
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. 👍🏻
One of my favs is For the longest time by Billy Joel
And that's why I so enjoy your reactions -- no dystopia here, no matter the song, the lyrics, or the group!
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. 😂😂😂❤
Another fun Billy Joel song is "A Matter of Trust". One of my favorites and very underrated. 🔥❤️
This past weekend in New York City, Billy Joel performed his 100th show at that venue in his 40 year career! Yes, he performed Uptown Girl, and the cameras were showing on the huge screen, yup, Christy Brinkley, the Uptown Girl herself, singing along! It was incredible! Also, their daughter came on stage and performed for her dad! U must look it up on TH-cam!❤❤
AWWWW! I love you! Rock on!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this reaction, yes this is such a feel good song that just makes ya wanna dance and smile
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." 😎
Saw Billy Joel and Elton a few years ago. Was great!
Very uplifting and fun!! 🔥💝💞
Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" was the first EIGHT TRACK! album I ever bought with my own money! "It's Still Rock-n-Roll to Me" was one of the first absolute jams of my life! Wore that sucker out!💯
Billy Joel is one of the best Story Tellers in Songs, a Genius Musician
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.
ONE of Billy Joel’s best. ❤️✌🏻🎶
You are so right!
If you still get traditional TV, you should check your on demand for the Billy Joel special that was on this last week. It was in celebration of his 100th sold out concert at Madison Square Garden. He's been playing there once a month for approx. 10 years. One song he does, he debuted at the Grammys this year. It's the first song he's written in 30 years. It's really good.
In case you didn't know it, he got the girl. Billy Joel and Christy Brinkley were married. Now they are divorced.
Yesssss! More billy joel! MOOOOOAR! 😊💜💜
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.
I love how much you got into this video..... Got up and danced and everything
I saw him back in the late 80's and he is incredible live
BJ’s album “The Stranger” is absolute perfection from beginning to end.🥂
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.
I love it when you get up and dance.😂 you crack me up! Love your heart! You're amazing!
yeah this is one of those songs that will just put a smile on your face
Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley had a daughter Alexa Ray Joel. The middle name “Ray” was to honor Ray Charles, who Billy did a duet with called Grand Piano. Alexa Ray is also a musician taking after her father I believe she does shows in New York City.
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!
Billy Joel - River of Dreams!
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.
Love that you love this so much!! Such a GREAT song!!!!
As soon as i saw this I remembered the music video on VH1 ...that's where he met his wife, can't remember her name, the model ....dated and married
Great Video!!!!! Love Billy Joel , his talent is incredible in somany ways!!! Glad he's still with us and performing ❤ 🎶 🎵 🏍 Christie Brinkley thanks for helping me out with her full name !!! White Breed Girl, high class world!!!!
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.
You nailed it! We had so much hope back then despite the challenges of racism, war, pollution, fighting for democracy, blah, blah. we believed we could change it all.
This was huge back in the day. You keep reacting to great music, and I love your honest reactions😂.
That was the beauty of growing up in the 70s and 80s when music came on vinyl and cassette and you had album covers with lyrics printed on them and magazines that came out weekly with some lyrics in them. Something that streaming will never be able to recreate
This was one of my jams when I was a young teen,lol…Ive always liked the idea of a couple from opposite sides of the track meeting and falling in love against odds.😄
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.
Such a great song that my dear grandmother loved it! It made her happy she would always say.
He wrote this about his then wife, supermodel, Christie Brinkley. That’s her dancing with him in the video! They have one daughter, Alexa Ray- named after Billy’s idol, Ray Charles.
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!
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.
BP I’m telling you Zanzibar will blow your mind. My favorite Billy Joel song.
Getting so hyped for this song/video is the correct response. ❤
I freaking love this!
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.
Billy Joel🔥
Billy and Christie have a daughter Alexa Ray ( for Ray Charles). Recently at Madison Sq Alexa sang "To Sir, With Love" to her father during his concert. Christie (The Uptown Girl ) was there having a blast! She posted an amazing video on Instagram. Love your channel and loving your Billy journey.
I love Billy Joel. Garth Brooks is also a big Billy fan and Billy let him do a cover of Billys song Shameless. For what ever reason Shameless wasnt a huge hit for Billy, but it was a mega hit for Garth. You should do a rea tion on it. Shameless written by Billy Joel and preformed by Garth Brooks. Its really great!
I love this guy! You’ve made my day. I really like how you can distinguish the meaning in these music videos ❤
Love this song. I had not seen the video before. Love this so very much. Love your reaction! ♥❤🔥
Love watching you getting hype over Billy Joel. Definitely one of my all-time favorite artists.
Love the energy! Great reaction.
Great song!!! Love that his wife WAS the Uptown Girl that he got!!!