Billy Joel is absolutely again in his pop mode within the new video for comeback single “Flip the Lights Again On.” The truth is, because of generative AI, Joel is again in all his pop modes within the time-tripping visible directed by Warren Fu (Daft Punk, Dua Lipa), which makes use of expertise from Deep Voodoo to painting the now 74-year-old piano man in all his completely different eras.
The clip opens with immediately’s Joel in a black swimsuit at his trusty Steinway, taking part in the music’s elegiac instrumental intro, a cigarette burning within the ashtray, earlier than leaping again to Nineteen Seventies shaggy-haired Joel singing the monitor’s wistful opening traces, “Please, open the door/ Nothing is completely different, we’ve been right here earlier than/ Pacing these halls, making an attempt to speak over the silence.”
After the digicam pans to the rafters, it swings again to a different previous Joel, specializing in the music’s lyric sheet atop the piano earlier than revealing a Eighties BJ in a leather-based jacket and sweatshirt. One other sweep reveals a barely older sunglass-and-brown-blazer-wearing Joel tickling the ivories earlier than a last montage exhibits Joel on stage, backstage, within the studio and together with his youngsters all through his half-century profession.
After performing his first new pop music in 17 years on the 2024 Grammy Awards, Joel was again on Billboard‘s Grownup Modern chart dated Feb. 10 at No. 11, marking his first entry on the chart since 1998. The singer additionally returned to the Billboard Scorching 100 on the chart dated Feb. 17, debuting at No. 62, marking his first entry on the chart since his cowl of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Really feel My Love” hit No. 50.
Watch the “Flip the Lights Again on” video beneath.
