So Billy, for once, was kind of a step ahead of the pop pack**.
#GIRL IN THE UPTOWN GIRL VIDEO UPDATE#
It’s better than a sexless update of Grease, as there were contemporary cinematic connections – the John Hughes movies, from memory, are all about class, crossing the tracks, trying to pull someone who should be beyond your reach. Besides, the Four Seasons and Beach Boys were both adept at laddish bonhomie as well as pining for Ronnie, Wendy, Rhonda or Sherry*. As a man in a permanent New York state of mind, I’d guess BJ had little time for the car crazy clean cut California quintet and was a Frankie Valli man to the core. This is 100% a Four Seasons tribute, or am I rather misreading your comments? The “fi-yi-yine” is a direct lift from Big Girls Don’t Cry-yi-yi the story is (deliberately, I’d guess) the inverse of Rag Doll.
« CULTURE CLUB – “Karma Chameleon” THE FLYING PICKETS – “Only You” » Comments 1 2 3 » All Those endless runs of “oh-oh-whoas” are the main reason to listen to the song, and they’re a tip off as to where it’s really coming from, in spirit if not in music: not the street heat of Frankie Valli but the lusty lads-together innocence of the Beach Boys. It isn’t a record about bedding an uptown girl or wanting to bed an uptown girl, it’s a record about remembering wanting to bed an uptown girl, and boasting to your blue-collar buds that that’s what you were gonna do, and wanting to have blue-collar buds to boast to! The video makes this explicit with Christine Brinkley as pin-up come to life, but it’s in the song too, in the husky, hearty interplay of those cascading backing vox, whose prominence makes it obvious that the guys – not the girl – are the chief audience for Joel’s talk.
Of course Billy Joel is smart enough to realise this, and “Uptown Girl” works because it’s history written by the winners. There’s nothing at stake in “Uptown Girl” – how could there be? Rock and roll moved uptown long ago. The street music – doo-wop and rock’n’roll – that “Uptown Girl” draws energy from was able to speak so powerfully to sexual and social codes partly because the act of addressing those codes head-on was itself a breach of them. The school is located across from the back of One Police Plaza, and alongside the Brooklyn Bridge.Billy Joel pays tribute to the music of his childhood, and so inevitably there’s something childish about “Uptown Girl”: its instant singability makes it sound like a Grease outtake, except there was more sex and chemistry in Grease’s flirtatious goofery. Crowds of angry teens rushed the halls and screamed in protest over the policy change. The school also made headlines in 2010 when principal Andrea Lewis decided to close all the restrooms to students, after what students said were two fights that broke out during class. That fight involved multiple students, and the video appeared to show a teenage girl striking a police officer, the publication reported.
The month before, four students were arrested and charged with attempted arson, after the two boys and two girls were allegedly spotted trying to set a textbook on fire, the publication reported.Īnd a year ago, another fight at the school made the headlines after appearing in a YouTube video. READ MORE: Bulls Come Alive In 4th Quarter, Rally To Top Knicks Back in November, two school safety officers were injured in an attack committed by students, according to a DNAInfo report. The school has had a recent history of violence. The NYPD has issued nine summonses and one youth desk appearance ticket in response to the fight, CBS 2 reported. Other students reportedly left class to watch the fight, the department said. The New York City Department of Education told CBS 2 there were actually two separate fights among girls last Thursday. READ MORE: 'Some' Fatalities Reported After SUV Plows Into Marchers At Wisconsin Holiday Parade The cell phone video taken last Thursday showed two girls throwing their fists at each other, before one of them ends up on the ground, at Murry Bergtraum School for Business Careers, 411 Pearl St.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A graphic video has surfaced, showing a fight between two girls at a public high school in Lower Manhattan.
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