When you see the lyric, the girl loved by a downtown man has lived in uptown world and never met bum in back streets. As mentioned above, ‘Uptown girl’ performed by Billy Joel is more positive and upbeat song with a lyric that a poor man living in a downtown makes persistent efforts to win her heart. In Korea, a song ‘uptown girl’ became widely known since boy group Westlife did a cover version of this song in 2000 and in fact, this song was from ‘An Innocent Man’ in the 9th studio album of Billy Joel in 1983. On the contrary, a song ‘Uptown girl’ what I’m going to talk about performed by Billy Joel is more positive and upbeat song with a lyric that a poor man living in a downtown try to romance her. A song ‘My Heart Will Go On’ by Celine Dion, which is well known for Titanic OST was about the tragedy of lost loves in the face of death and different social status.
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I saw these love stories in reality or soap opera or movie as a poor man or woman decided to marry someone under cold, calculating affairs, with purpose of rise of social status, but sometimes they fell in love by accident but struggled for the difference family in terms of wealth and social status. The love between a man and woman with different social status often made sad stories.
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With the meeting and love between a poor painter, Jack Dawson portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and a daughter Rose belonging to the upper class in the United States portrayed by Kate Winslet as well as parting scene full of pitiful tears and its OST ‘My Heart Will Go On’ sung by Celine Dion still remained in our mind and touches our heart quietly yet so deeply.
In this movie, people used to shed tears while watching sadder sorrowful love between a man and woman who love each other despite of different social origin. Have you ever heard the movie called ‘Titanic’ which was released in 1997? This movie was based on a true story that the Titanic sailing towards Northwest Atlantic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 and caused catastrophic damage.