Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ult…

Chuck Klosterman
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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2004). Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, p.44, Simon and Schuster
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