Pleased to make the cover of the Washington Examiner Magazine… I once inadvertently torpedoed a budding relationship when I told her that The Boss was what rich people liked to play to pretend they gave a damn about the working class—it hit a little too close to home. Word to the wise: some of these Northeasterners take their Springsteen awfully seriously. It’s like he’s not just an entertainer, not just a rock star, but somehow the voice and conscience of America itself.
Well said. As a fan from the mid/late 70s, who saw him live on stage at Penn State's Rec Hall, that guy disappeared sometime around Nebraska. He is far away from his roots now.
I still have Nebraska on vinyl. I read that Howard Zinn inspired the album which was released on the cusp of economic renewal. Certainly THAT had something to with Boss's more optimistic turn. Victimnomics didn't sell well after 1984.
There was a very defensive Bruce superfan who tried to "debunk" me on Twitter and preposterously argued that Springsteen only became political in the early 2000s. The shift to a more "topical" subject matter is palpable on Darkness on the Edge of Town, even before he was playing concerts against nuclear weapons and releasing a sparse Dorothea Lange-sort of album that was universally received as a critique of cruel Reaganism.
Well said. As a fan from the mid/late 70s, who saw him live on stage at Penn State's Rec Hall, that guy disappeared sometime around Nebraska. He is far away from his roots now.
I still have Nebraska on vinyl. I read that Howard Zinn inspired the album which was released on the cusp of economic renewal. Certainly THAT had something to with Boss's more optimistic turn. Victimnomics didn't sell well after 1984.
There was a very defensive Bruce superfan who tried to "debunk" me on Twitter and preposterously argued that Springsteen only became political in the early 2000s. The shift to a more "topical" subject matter is palpable on Darkness on the Edge of Town, even before he was playing concerts against nuclear weapons and releasing a sparse Dorothea Lange-sort of album that was universally received as a critique of cruel Reaganism.