Ayanna Pressley want to ensure the nine companies who service those loans are prepared to implement that relief effectively. It was followed the same month by the second Nylon Curtain single, "Allentown." A third, "Goodnight Saigon," came out the following February.Student-loan companies are tasked with carrying out President Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness - and two Democratic lawmakers want to ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible.Īt the end of August, Biden announced $10,000 to $20,000 in student-loan forgiveness for federal borrowers making under $125,000 a year. "Pressure" can now be found on most of Joel's compilation albums, and several of his live sets. 'God! What did you do? You erased part of the song!' Phil was right: For that one segment everything stops dead but my voice, but it was just what the track needed." Ramone concurred that "the inadvertent error added an inexplicable dimension to an already stylized song."
"While the master tape was running, I impulsively hit all the buttons on the tape machine to punch out everything but the section with the yelling," Joel added. A happy accident followed about 12 seconds later as Joel barks out the song's title "with the same inflection that a Royal Air Force captain might use to bark out a command like Ten-Hunt!" he said in Making Records. "They had no idea who Billy Joel was."Īlso of note is a section at the 3.46 mark that sounds like an instrumental version a taxi cab horn but is actually Joel "singing every note in my repertoire" and then putting his vocal through an Emulator. They "were accustomed to performing at Russian Orthodox weddings," Ramone added. The song itself was driven by synthesizer rather than Joel's trademark piano, and the instrumentation also included a troupe of New York balalaika players. That was part and parcel of sessions which producer Phil Ramone described in his book Making Records as "an opportunity to make a credible avant-garde statement. Recording "Pressure," meanwhile, became a creative adventure.
The single version shaved nearly a minute and a half off its album counterpart, editing out the third verse and second bridge. 23, 1982, "Pressure" got The Nylon Curtain campaign off to a fast start as his seventh Top 20 single on the Billboard 200. Released in front of the album's arrival on Sept. It's gonna be there, so you either deal with it or you crumble."
"The pressure's out there, whether you like it or not. "I'm basically saying that you can't be soft," he told this writer when The Nylon Curtain was released. You're just like everybody else."Īlong the way, he sneers at those who "cannot handle pressure," tauntingly invoking totems of innocence such as Peter Pan and Sesame Street as part of a his message to buck up and get on with it.
The word "snowflake" is never employed, but the song is a kind of slap upside the head to anybody – including himself – paralyzed by the stresses of the modern world: " You have to learn to pace yourself. "And I said, 'Thank you!'"Ĭreative pipes opened, Joel went on to write the appropriately titled "Pressure," an existential treatise that both acknowledges and mocks the contemporary anxiety of the early '80s. I bet that'd be a good idea for a song,'" Joel added. "And then the woman who is my secretary came into the house at that point and said, 'Wow, you look like you're under a lot of pressure.
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