Two decades later, he remains high on the leaderboard, bested only by the likes of Michael Jackson, Elton John, and Garth Brooks. And yet people—critics at the big magazines, almost to a man; bloggers of more discriminating musical taste ; lazy comics seeking easy punchlines—revile Billy Joel. They detest him on an almost visceral level. But guys like Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Rotten have a default credibility that Joel will never be granted…. The problem is that Joel never seemed cool, even among the people who like him. He has no intrinsic coolness, and he has no extrinsic coolness. If cool were a color, it would be black—and Joel would be kind of a burnt orange. He drops F-bombs.

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