Legendary musician Billy Joel informed Invoice Maher he doesn’t care if the far left complains about his statements or music anymore.
In the course of the newest episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast launched Monday, the 2 mentioned the “woke” left’s response to something it disagrees with, with Joel admitting he’s over worrying about what that group thinks of him.
“At this point… I’m inured to it,” Joel stated in reply to Maher asking if he doesn’t care if woke individuals criticize him any longer.
Maher introduced up woke outrage whereas speaking to Joel about his 1976 music, “Angry Young Man.”
Within the music, Joel sings, “I believe I’ve passed the age, of consciousness and righteous rage, I found that just surviving was a noble fight. I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view, and life went on no matter who was wrong or right.”
With assist from Joel, Maher recited the lyrics and commented, “I feel like that is the message of the age, even though some people will hear that and say, ‘Look at these two a——-!’”
“Boomers,” Joel chimed in, mocking an insult usually lobbed on-line at older generations.
The host continued, noting how mad leftists get when individuals don’t declare, “’Trump’s the worst.’”
The HBO host then introduced up Joel’s Vietnam Conflict-era music, “Goodnight Saigon” and its lyrics, “And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn’t matter in the thick of the fight.”
“Do you still feel that way?” he requested the singer, concerning the lyrics.
“Yes,” he replied.
“And you don’t care what they say about you – the woke?” Maher requested.
“At this point, no,” the musician replied, although he famous how he tries to know the perspective of people that disagree with him.
“On the other hand, I’m always trying to find out the other point of view. What’s, you know, not my point of view – somebody else’s point of view. Okay, I’d like to understand why they think that way.”
“It’s so difficult in this day and age,” Maher replied.
Maher continued, “I mean it is what I am always trying to do on my show. It is, look, this is one safe space for everybody and I will take the heat from either – both sides. I mean I do feel like the left, who, ironically I’m more actually aligned with, is more snippy about it, and has a worse attitude about it, and makes me viscerally not like them more sometimes.”
Elsewhere, the 2 mentioned how social media makes political outrage worse.
“People say things all the time on [social media] they would never say, if they had to say it to your face,” Maher stated.
“It just always surprises me how people, they express this hatred,” Joel responded. “It’s like, you hate a musician because he wrote something?”
