Born in the USA
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 15:25 last edited by
Bruce Springsteen’s song just came on the radio, and I had a thought, could you imagine this being released today?
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:03 last edited by Mik 8 Aug 2020, 17:04
Sure. It's not a pro-American song. If anything it would be condemned for not being quite woke enough.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:23 last edited by
To be honest, I don’t really know the lyrics. I just had the “this is anti immigrant!” reaction in my head, if it was released today.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:24 last edited by
Just read the lyrics, interesting.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 17:33 last edited by
Most people can't understand what Springsteen is singing....
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 18:45 last edited by
Mr. Springsteen hates, hates, hates, HATES Mr. Trump.
Mr. Springsteen has the serious TDS.
Mr. Springsteen can say whatever he wants and he will be loved by all.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 19:54 last edited by
He could shoot people on Fifth Avenue and still be loved.
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Bruce Springsteen’s song just came on the radio, and I had a thought, could you imagine this being released today?
wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 21:11 last edited by@89th said in Born in the USA:
Bruce Springsteen’s song just came on the radio, and I had a thought, could you imagine this being released today?
Would be fun to watch. People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
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@89th said in Born in the USA:
Bruce Springsteen’s song just came on the radio, and I had a thought, could you imagine this being released today?
Would be fun to watch. People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 21:47 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Born in the USA:
People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Luv that song. Feel like I shouldn't cuz of letting down the sisterhood, but wotthehell, cool is cool.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Born in the USA:
People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Luv that song. Feel like I shouldn't cuz of letting down the sisterhood, but wotthehell, cool is cool.
wrote on 8 Aug 2020, 23:14 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Born in the USA:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Born in the USA:
People would have collective aneurisms over "Money for Nothing."
Luv that song. Feel like I shouldn't cuz of letting down the sisterhood, but wotthehell, cool is cool.
Probably the best example I think of for illustrating how rests breathe life into a guitar riff.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 01:10 last edited by
Read an interesting story about the song. It was wrote to be a much more "down" song, but when the album was produced, they wanted a more "big arena" sound, so he recorded it like that. But it was originally written to have a depressed feel to it.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 01:34 last edited by
He's from New Jersey.
He has a right to be depressed.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 01:39 last edited by
@Jolly LOL
A friend from Delaware told me that their state motto was:
"At least we are not New Jersey!"
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 02:13 last edited by
@taiwan_girl that's fascinating.
I still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
Are you familiar with the post-recording work that was done on "Sounds of Silence?" When Simon and Garfunkel recorded it, it was basically a folk song. The producer, whose name escapes me, added the electric guitar and drum track later.
The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly, S&G had no idea what had been done to their song until they heard it on the radio.
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@taiwan_girl that's fascinating.
I still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
Are you familiar with the post-recording work that was done on "Sounds of Silence?" When Simon and Garfunkel recorded it, it was basically a folk song. The producer, whose name escapes me, added the electric guitar and drum track later.
The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly, S&G had no idea what had been done to their song until they heard it on the radio.
Link to videowrote on 9 Aug 2020, 02:45 last edited by@George-K Interesting!!! Thanks.
FYI, lyrics for the Born in the USA
**Born down in a dead man town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering upBorn in the U. S. A, I was born in the U. S. A
I was born in the U. S. A, born in the U. S. AGot in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow manBorn in the U. S. A...
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my V. A. Man
He said son, don't you understandI had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all goneHe had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms nowDown in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to goBorn in the U. S. A, I was born in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A, I'm a long gone daddy in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A., born in the U. S. A
Born in the U. S. A, I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U. S. A** -
@taiwan_girl that's fascinating.
I still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
Are you familiar with the post-recording work that was done on "Sounds of Silence?" When Simon and Garfunkel recorded it, it was basically a folk song. The producer, whose name escapes me, added the electric guitar and drum track later.
The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly, S&G had no idea what had been done to their song until they heard it on the radio.
Link to videowrote on 9 Aug 2020, 04:35 last edited by@George-K said in Born in the USA:
Link to videoI still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 14:32 last edited by
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706566556/bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa-american-anthem
An interpretation of what the song means.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 14:42 last edited by
"The pride was in the chorus," Springsteen said to host Terry Gross in a 2005 interview. "In my songs, the spiritual part, the hope part, is in the choruses. The blues and your daily realities are in the details of the verses."
Yep, pretty obvious if you look at his songs.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 14:56 last edited by
Best summation of his work.
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wrote on 9 Aug 2020, 14:58 last edited by
@Mik said in Born in the USA:
Best summation of his work.
He never interested me enough to think about it too much. I respect his work and life achievement, it just doesn’t float my boat.