rant · moment 9 of 18
Alexa Ray Joel's Instagram and National Anthem Disaster
from The Coming Collapse · #103
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9 minTim and Ray mock Billy Joel's daughter Alexa Ray Joel's bizarre Instagram captions, her bad singing (including a rough national anthem performance), and floating the idea of getting her on a Long Island project.
- 28:23Alexa Ray Joel is uniquely talentless, just really bad.
- 28:42Tim listens to her cover of her father's song and describes it as nightmarish.
- 29:36Her national anthem performance is a nightmare.
- 29:51Her Instagram account posts absurd things like wanting to make a coloring book for adults.
- 30:12She performed at Cafe Carlisle so badly the audience was visibly confused.
- 30:25On Instagram she does dramatic monologues to no one in a hotel room, like pretend Evelyn Waugh.
- 31:15She's just white privilege personified, a multi-millionaire who complains about nothing.
- 31:53Tim and the crew plan to contact her pretending to be fans and ask for a duet he can't sing.
- 33:15She's objectively not good at singing, and Billy Joel probably doesn't want anything to do with it.
- 33:49She's a great representative of Long Island—somebody with money and no actual job.
- 35:27One Instagram caption lists contradictory political positions like supporting both Richard Spencer and immigrants.
- 36:10She quotes herself, always a sign of a healthy person, posting pretentious captions about art and vulnerability.
- 36:46Tim can't believe she's rich enough to complain about needing art and honesty when she has a 40-acre estate.
- 37:25They plan to take the episode down before reaching out to involve her in a Long Island project.
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