{"id":173714,"date":"2025-09-27T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173714\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:47:08","slug":"ben-folds-playlist-the-piano-rebel-who-made-geek-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173714\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Folds&#8217; Playlist: The piano rebel who made geek cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Folds is the piano pounding pop genius who made nerdy cool. Rising to fame with Ben Folds Five, he&#8217;s built a career mixing razor-sharp lyrics, humour and heartfelt ballads.<\/p>\n<p>Ben spoke with Suzanne Hill and shared the songs that inspired him:<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Smith &#8211; The Cat<\/p>\n<p>Elton John &#8211; Take Me To The Pilot\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Billy Joel &#8211; Allentown<\/p>\n<p>Joni Mitchell &#8211; Talk to Me<\/p>\n<p>Randy Newman &#8211; Marie<\/p>\n<p>Stevie Wonder &#8211; You Met Your Match<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney &#8211; Let &#8216;Em In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Folds is the piano pounding pop genius who made nerdy cool. Rising to fame with Ben Folds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,112950,134,136,3755],"class_list":["post-173714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bestyearever","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}