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# Sort of amazing how many different moods Billy Joel can infuse with kitsch. And how little I care! Everything he does shares at least one border with kitsch, there\u2019s so much degenerate sentiment in all of it, from \u201cAnd So It Goes\u201d to \u201cDowneaster \u2018Alexa,'\u201d and yet those are both great songs<\/em>. How does he do it? Is it corrupting to the morals of the country?<\/p>\n

The only song where his incredible pop skill can\u2019t salvage his taste for kitsch is \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire,\u201d a song which leaches all meaning from history. And now you\u2019ve got it stuck in your head, don\u2019t you.<\/p>\n

# Literally all music should include a saxophone solo. I\u2019m convinced now. Saxophone solos are the great expression of romantic loneliness, the heart\u2019s postlapsarian isolation. Saxophone solos are drinking scotch on the rocks in an airplane soaring high above the neon lights, far from anyone you know, especially yourself and God. It\u2019s illusory\u2013if I take the wings of the saxophone, even there your hand shall guide me\u2013and you\u2019ll know it\u2019s illusory, but it will feel<\/em> real, and that\u2019s almost as nice.<\/p>\n

(This is why they won\u2019t let me be on the liturgical committee.)<\/p>\n

# When I was very little I thought \u201cCaptain Jack\u201d was a romantic ballad. He\u2019ll take you to your special island! I feel that this explains a lot. (In my defense, I didn\u2019t know what all the words meant.)<\/p>\n

# I think I was well-served by growing up with an idea of marriage shaped by stuff like \u201cScenes from an Italian Restaurant<\/a>\u201d and \u201c The River<\/a>.\u201d Nowadays we have so much idealism and romanticism about marriage\u2013probably because so many fewer people do it. That\u2019s got to be miserable for unmarried people (because it seems like such an unattainable ideal, especially if you know your own defects of character very well) and for married people (because it isolates them in their inevitable unhappiness<\/a>, it makes their disappointment and resignation seem like aberrations rather than normal married life). You\u2019re not well-prepared for any<\/em> vocation if you think of it the way we now think of marriage, as a refuge from loneliness<\/a>. I haven\u2019t in fact watched Beyonce\u2019s \u201cLemonade\u201d so maybe this is a silly thing to say, but I wonder if that might do some of the same preparatory work for the Youth of Today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"