{"id":119061,"date":"2025-01-08T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/08\/x-user-claims-they-were-scared-of-the-sinister-vibes-in-billy-joels-uptown-girl\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:02:05","slug":"x-user-claims-they-were-scared-of-the-sinister-vibes-in-billy-joels-uptown-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/08\/x-user-claims-they-were-scared-of-the-sinister-vibes-in-billy-joels-uptown-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"X user claims they were scared of the ‘sinister vibes’ in Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley filming ‘Uptown Girl’ video; Vinnie Zuffante\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The words “Billy Joel<\/strong>” and “sinister vibes” don’t normally go together, which is why one user on social platform X is getting roasted for claiming that’s what they got from the Piano Man’s 1983 doo-wop-inspired hit “Uptown Girl.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

The user, @plumjae, who Page Six<\/em><\/a> claims is a “Gen Zer,” initially posted<\/a>, “I was in an Uber share today and a song came on that had the most sinister vibes ever and all three of us were sitting in dead silence I wish I could rmbr the song imma try to find it.”<\/p>\n

They followed it up by posting the “Uptown Girl” video, starring Billy as a mechanic who tries to woo a wealthy woman played by his then-girlfriend and future wife\u00a0Christie Brinkley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0wrote<\/a>, “I found it.\u00a0I was scared as f*** the Uber was just gonna drive us off the road I do not like the energy this song brought into the car.”<\/span><\/p>\n

While there are a few Billy Joel songs that might be described as somewhat<\/em> sinister \u2014 “Pressure,” “Stiletto” and “The Stranger” come to mind \u2014 most X users mocked the poster over\u00a0their reaction to what is decidedly not that type of tune.<\/p>\n

“This is definitely the last song I would have guessed,” wrote one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“To think we\u2019ve crossed the Rubicon where one of the most well known pop songs of all time by one of the most successful pop artists of all time is a ‘Creepy mystery song,'” wrote another.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Lmfaoooooo how old are you?!” someone replied<\/a>. “Omg it was Uptown Girl? Dying\u2026 I thought it was Marilyn Manson<\/strong> or something lol,” wrote another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet another snarked<\/a>, “Tell us you’re younger than 30 without telling us you’re younger than 30.”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley filming ‘Uptown Girl’ video; Vinnie Zuffante\/Getty Images The words “Billy Joel” and “sinister vibes” don’t normally go together, which is why one user on social platform X is getting roasted for claiming that’s what they got from the Piano Man’s 1983 doo-wop-inspired hit “Uptown Girl.“Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}