For being based on a gimmick, I agree. The thing is you can only have one of these. Anything even vaguely similar will just a a knockoff. For a less memorable gimmick song, anyone remember Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex?

What impresses me is Billy Joel's range as a musician and song writer. Piano Man, Movin' Out, We Didn't Start the Fire, and Longest Time are all popular, but so different.

I ran across another gimmick song this year: Netflix Trip by AJR. The narrator basically relives his childhood over a Netflix binge of The Office.

A brilliant song? Not really, its pretty musically trite all things considered.

A brilliant bit of hubristic agit-prop? For sure. Fully entrenches the cultural righteousness that enslaves us all at the moment.

The danger is in believing the perspective it espouses.