From National Review's critic Kyle Smith:
Bruce Springsteen has a confession to make. “I made it all up,” he tells the audience in his new Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway. “Bruce Springsteen” the persona — all gritty working-class authenticity — is a creation. “I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life!” he says. “I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never worked 9 to 5. I’ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bruce-springsteen-persona-fake-artistry-sublime/
The review linked above concludes with the opinion that while his persona, modeled on his father, may have been faked, Springsteen's artistry is sublime.
From National Review's critic Kyle Smith:
Bruce Springsteen has a confession to make. “I made it all up,” he tells the audience in his new Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway. “Bruce Springsteen” the persona — all gritty working-class authenticity — is a creation. “I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life!” he says. “I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never worked 9 to 5. I’ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bruce-springsteen-persona-fake-artistry-sublime/
The review linked above concludes with the opinion that while his persona, modeled on his father, may have been faked, Springsteen's artistry is sublime.
From National Review's critic Kyle Smith:
Bruce Springsteen has a confession to make. “I made it all up,” he tells the audience in his new Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway. “Bruce Springsteen” the persona — all gritty working-class authenticity — is a creation. “I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life!” he says. “I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never worked 9 to 5. I’ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bruce-springsteen-persona-fake-artistry-sublime/
The review linked above concludes with the opinion that while his persona, modeled on his father, may have been faked, Springsteen's artistry is sublime.
From National Review's critic Kyle Smith:
Bruce Springsteen has a confession to make. “I made it all up,” he tells the audience in his new Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway. “Bruce Springsteen” the persona — all gritty working-class authenticity — is a creation. “I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life!” he says. “I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never worked 9 to 5. I’ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bruce-springsteen-persona-fake-artistry-sublime/
The review linked above concludes with the opinion that while his persona, modeled on his father, may have been faked, Springsteen's artistry is sublime.
Wow!!! I have to admit that the National Review must be really perceptive to realize a man who has been a professional musician his entire life has never worked a M-F 40 hour week.
:lamo
From National Review's critic Kyle Smith:
Bruce Springsteen has a confession to make. “I made it all up,” he tells the audience in his new Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway. “Bruce Springsteen” the persona — all gritty working-class authenticity — is a creation. “I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life!” he says. “I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never worked 9 to 5. I’ve never worked five days a week. Until right now.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bruce-springsteen-persona-fake-artistry-sublime/
The review linked above concludes with the opinion that while his persona, modeled on his father, may have been faked, Springsteen's artistry is sublime.
Did anyone think he was writing everything from personal experience???
It was hilarious that the NJ government once actually considered making "Born To Run" the offical state youth theme song.
The following lyrics:
"Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young"
are hardly a reason for youth to wish to remain in NJ.
How Bruce Springsteen'''s '''Born to Run''' Almost Became the '''Unofficial Theme''' of New Jersey'''s Youth
You may want to read ALL the lyrics. You do not seem to understand the meaning of the song
It's about getting out of a hell hole (decaying small town?) with the girl (Wendy?) that you love. Teenage rebellion coupled with geographic relocation to escape life's problems.
Wrong
Suppose that Springsteen was indisputably a fraud. Suppose we learned last year that his real name was Bryce Springfield IV, Duke of Bedford, that he’d grown up riding to hounds, attending Oxford, and receiving a double first in Russian and chemistry. Suppose the closest he had ever come to New Jersey was . . . Jersey. Suppose he’d grown up a right proper English twit.
How would “Born to Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” sound then? Would we dismiss him as a charlatan and stop showing up for his concerts? Would this be a career-upending scandal?
I’d say it shouldn’t be. While all of this would be a very interesting development for a biographer, it shouldn’t matter to a critic or a fan. The songs would still be the songs. They’d still be as wistful, poetic, and propulsive as they are.
Yet that isn’t the reaction the critics would take. The critics would pound him. They’d feel betrayed and humiliated. The tone of media coverage would turn from adulation to disgust.
So even an innocuous little thread on Springsteen can produce rancorous argument.
:roll:
You misspelled ignorant and I am surprised that someone who claims to have a literary career of any sorts would think such a sophomoric piece of envy disguised as criticism would be deserving of re-posting.
Exactly what was it that made this absurd piece of music criticism appeal to you? The authors not knowing that Springsteen did not work a nine-to-fiver, or his assumption that everyone else was as ignorant as he? Or was it his brilliant observation that a persons persona is not who they really are?
It's about getting out of a hell hole (decaying small town?) with the girl (Wendy?) that you love. Teenage rebellion coupled with geographic relocation to escape life's problems.
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