I'm a little disturbed my this old Billy Joel Video

Why would homoeroticism disturb you?

I forgot what a bad singer he is.

I would watch this video waiting to see the bare ass, always a thrill. This song reminds me of a song by John Cougar Mellencamp, Rain on the Scarecrow, lamenting how things were changing for working class white people in the 1980s.

It seems like a Bruce Springsteen ripoff.

And why was there so much reverb applied to his voice?

I used to jack off to this video as a gayling in the 80s

Billy Joel claims that he didn't pick up on the homoeroticism until many years later.

He says the video’s director, Australian film director Russell Mulcahy, “is a brilliant director, but I didn’t realize until I watched it again how gay that video was. It’s really gay! There’s a shower scene with all these good–looking, muscular steelworkers who are completely bare-assed. And they’re all oiled up and twisting valves and knobs. I missed this completely when I was doing the video. I just thought it was like [the movie] ‘The Deer Hunter.’ You know, guys go off to war, they come back, they’re all messed up, and there’re steelworkers who don’t have jobs – OK, I get that. But did they have to be taking a shower with their bare asses hanging out? Maybe there’s something artsy-fartsy about that, I don’t know.”

It's because Billy Joel is from Long Island, he's fundamentally a Broadway kid and he thinks of entertainment in terms of Broadway shows, which, of course, are full of gay guys doing dance routines. It's not because Billy himself is particularly gay.

OP, why in the hell are you disturbed?

We need to know who the flaming baton twirler is.

Russell Mulcahy is a hero! He gave us some of the greatest, gayest videos in the 80s - Elton John “I’m Still Standing,” Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” Go West “Call Me,” Supertramp “It’s Raining Again.” The men in his videos were shot so beautifully. He even made homely Def Leppard look sexy in “Pour Some Sugar On Me.”

[quote] This video in particular looks like it borrowed some of the chiseled man meat from Madonna's Respect yourself.

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This is what I would imagine if Active Duty produced The Grapes of Wrath.

I loved the song when I was in high school but I didn’t remember the video. We didn’t have cable so there were a lot of videos I missed.

I watched it for the bare ass.

The 80s had this magical contrast between extremely casual homophobia and extreme gayness. It took something like the video for Billy Squier's Rock Me Tonight before the homophobes noticed.

I’m disturbed! I was 19 when it hit the air waves. What the hell happened?????

I considered going to Muhlenberg College in Allentown (because my doctor went there so I figured it was good) but this song made it seem like a bad place to be.

OP, isn't Respect Yourself from Madonna's Just Like A Dream album?