First of all we should get out of the way that I really dislike Billy Joel's music even though I was really into this song as a kid.The number of assets the player can own is not limited by the game. 'River of Dreams' is about a river (of dreams), so for this video we get the Billy Joel we all know and love - river boat Billy Joel. He starts the video by boating down the river like a seasoned old salty river man. Just Billy Joel and the river, man and nature. I don't know a lot about Billy Joel but I do know he's not a god damn river boat captain. But we don't really have time to let this sink in. Soon the funky beat kicks in and Billy Joel is on an incomplete bridge over the river standing in front of three of the most uncomfortable looking backup singers I've ever seen in a music video. They hardly move, and when they do they move like accountants reluncantly playing soulful back up dancers at a company talent show. They of course all have ridiculous looking sunglasses on because they are soul men. Soul men of the river.īilly Joel is showing his usual level of unawareness of his surroundings, feeling the vibe and busting out all the moves he's been practicing in the hotel mirror when we start to get introduced to an incomprehensible series of images of river life. #Uptown girl billy joel stepbrothers series I cannot for the life of me tell what is going on anywhere in the video's narrative sections. There's some kids in a car, a guy throwing a bag into the river, and god knows what else. Eventually you just let it ride and with each passing scene you think 'that's life on the river, man, just throwing bags of shit in the river'. One issue with figuring out what is going on is that this video moves at a disorienting speed. One minute you think 'oh wow what is Billy Joel doing' and then for 2 seconds you're looking at some dude's abs. Now he's staring at you - I guess he noticed you looking at his abs? The disorientation is compounded by the fact that many of the shots have some sort of wobbly water filter on them, distorting the image for no good reason unless we're supposed to think we're in the river looking out.

I know that this is supposed to be showing river life, but there are some truly WTF moments in this. One is a brief shot of a woman painting a picture - the picture is the album cover for River of Dreams, but she is definitely staring intently at something while she paints this picture as if to be painting an object that exists in real life. #Uptown girl billy joel stepbrothers series.

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