Born in the USA

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Born in the USA:

I still can't understand a word he's singing, other than "Born in the USA."

Link to video

[Loki]

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706566556/bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa-american-anthem

An interpretation of what the song means.

[Aqua Letifer]

"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.

[Mik]

Best summation of his work.

[Loki]

@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.

[Horace]

His music is populist garbage

[Mik]

That cannot be. He was the future of rock n roll.

[Loki]

@Mik said in Born in the USA:

That cannot be. He was the future of rock n roll.

I am mentally scrolling through my heroes of music and trying to think of who the white ones from America are. I am coming up short in the moment.

[Jolly]

[Doctor Phibes]

I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.

Early Elvis was pretty good for a white guy. Later Elvis was frequently just plain embarrassing.

[taiwan_girl]

@Loki Thanks Loki. Interesting article.

Here is another Bruce Springsteen song related to Vietnam that I like, but written from the point of the wife back home.

"A Good Man is Hard To Find"

Link to video

I think Bruce Springsteen is one of my favorite US artists.

There is a famous Taiwan artist whom I also like called Wu Bai, who is called the Bruce Springsteen of Taiwan for his storytelling songs and long, high energy live shows. He was one of the first big modern artists to sing in Taiwanese and become popular (though he also sings in Mandarin Chinese also).

WuBai

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[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Born in the USA:

I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.

Elvis never did much for me. I could appreciate his talent, his appeal, in an academic sort of way, but he never really moved me. Whereas I got Springsteen -- his drive, his un-slickness, his passion.

Can't explain it exactly.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Born in the USA:

I never understood the appeal of Springsteen.

Same here. Never got it.

Some catchy tunes, but otherwise...meh.