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MerahPutih.com - “Uptown Girl” merupakan lagu ikonik yang pertama kali dipopulerkan oleh musisi legendaris Billy Joel pada 1983. Lagu ini dengan cepat menjadi salah satu karya paling dikenal dari sang penyanyi berkat iramanya yang ceria, nuansa pop-rock khas era 80-an, serta cerita romantis yang sederhana namun mengena.
Hampir dua dekade kemudian, tepatnya pada 2001, grup vokal asal Irlandia, Westlife, membawakan ulang “Uptown Girl” dalam salah satu album mereka.
Versi ini menambahkan sentuhan pop khas Westlife yang lembut namun enerjik, sehingga mampu menarik perhatian pendengar lintas generasi dan kembali mengantarkan lagu ini meraih popularitas besar di berbagai tangga lagu internasional.
Berikut lirik lengkapnya:
Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
I bet her mama never told her why
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
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And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice
Ooh
Ooh
Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win
And when she's walking
She's looking so fine
And when she's talking
She'll say that she's mine
She'll say I'm not so tough
Just because I'm in love with an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
Uptown girl
She's my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
My uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
She's my uptown girl
She's my uptown girl. (far)
