Why Billy Joel’s New Deepfake Video Makes Me Sad

It’s just a fantasy. It’s not the real thing.

Billy Joel performing at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 2017. Photo by slgckgc, CC BY 2.0.

Billy Joel has long been one of my favorite solo artists. Growing up in the 80s, I bought all of his albums — on vinyl! — and watched all of his videos on MTV. I went to three of his concerts, in three different decades and time zones: Pittsburgh in the 80s, Chicago in the 90s, and — with Elton John — San…