A Burn!
Sometimes people just get right down to it with the perfect insult. There is nothing petty about it, it strikes a true chord, all around it is an utter and perfect burn. This is a place to give praise to skillful slams.
Jan 28, 2009
4:02pm
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Why is it that so many of us feel it is possible to say Billy Joel is—well—just bad, a blight upon pop music, a plague upon the airwaves more contagious than West Nile virus, a dire threat to the peacefulness of any given elevator ride, not rock ‘n’ roll but schlock ‘n’ roll?
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- Ron Rosenbaum in this article on Slate.com. Really you should read the entire piece as it is one long and scathing burn. It is hilarious and I don’t even foster that much vehemence for Billy Joel (a little now and then but I have always kind of liked “Piano Man”).
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