>>129806292He's shit
they are election touristsnebraska was /mu/core
>>129806292But I do
MISTER STATE TROOPER
he just never clicked with me, i also saw him once described as blue collar minstrel show and that nailed it, same problem as john lennon singing imagine no possessions while living in a mansion
>>129806292A lot of MAGA trash mad at his politics. Just search the reactions to his song about the Minneapolis shootings in the archive
>>129806292Simon and Garpickel were way better.
>>129806398He was blue collar. It's not really his fault he became popular and wealthy.
>>129806292he's not a boss of me
They don't live in New Jersey.
>>129806398He didn't come from money but regardless he doesn't pretend that he's not writing story songs most of the time past his earlier more directly personal albums. He was inspired by writers like Steinbeck and O'Connor IIRC (he even named an album after Tom Joad). You can see the change in style between the more ornate and lyrical personal expression on Born to Run ('There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away/They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets') vs. The River or Nebraska where he starts telling stories and takes a sparser, more impersonal approach ('My name is Joe Roberts/I work for the state'). I don't think it's comparable to Lennon who's making grand moral pronouncements. Yeah, he's got the political side but for the most part it's just storytelling, no different from a lot of folk and country songs.
>>129806490it is his fault that he continued milking it
>>129806292summer of 69 is his only good song
Born to Run is anthemic to me. I also really like doses of other albums like Darkness at the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen is the wallpaper music you hear on the radio and then reflexively reach for the dial trying to find the classical or jazz stations for some real music
>>129806672>noooooo you can't still identify with the marginalized if you become successful
>>129806292I go back and forth on liking The River but I'm always down to listen to Atlantic City. He sounds better when his music is minimalist but I have to admit Hungry Heart works.
>>129806292if he'd retired after that album, or had scrapped The River and just put out Nebraska then retired, he'd be a legend
>>129807626yes correct you can't
>>129806702you clearly havent heard Adam Raised a Cane
Any musician that gets shilled by Rolling Stone as much as he did cannot be that good.
He influenced a lot of stuff, but a lot of it was pretty bad in the long run.
>>129806292atlantic city is a good song
>>129807752he was pretty much poor until Born in the USA came out and he was in his 30's at that point. That's long enough to relate to people regardless if you become wealthy afterward.
>>129807831rolling stone had pretty good taste, to be fair
>>129806292Obnoxious self righteous libtard, fake Southern accent, dogshit musicWhat is even there to LIKE about Springsteen? I have never gotten his appeal.
>>129806417This
>>129806292I've actually always been confused why most zoomers take so badly to him. Think his epic doomed romantic narratives just don't connect with them.
he's just meh, like Ted Nugent for liberals
>>129807993they don't care for the big theatrical orchestral rock, they also lack the observance or interest of what his music is often about like Born to Run, all zoomies are the tramps that are born to run but nobody bothers to appreciate that it perfectly sums up their life and the way they feel
ALmost all critique I see levelled at Springsteen ae>his politics>he has too much money>Rolling Stone/boomer critics liked him too much/mu/tards too caught with the image of the guy despite being a unequivocally great songwriter. Same with Tom Waits.
>>129808097He sounds like he's putting on a fake voice when he sings. Tom Waits is the same way, but the voice Waits put on was cooler most of the time. Sometimes a Springsteen song comes on and all the music sounds nice but then he starts singing like The Piano Had Been Drinking minus the gravitas.Tyler Childers is who boomers pretend Springsteen is, and Bruce doesn't have a single song as good as Jersey Giant.
Sorry, T. I woulda been here sooner but the highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last chance powerdrive
I won't deny that he had a huge impact on rock, country, and pop although I'm not sure that impact was necessarily good.
>>129808275fucking love that scene, Chris being too funny even if its breaking character
>>129806292Who cares what kpop/wpop trash consumers think about art
>>129808097I think it's more that he can't sing and he inspired everyone and their dog for the next three decades to do that overwrought wall of sound depressed guy/girl going on about his/her feels schtick.
>>129808196>>129808369Exactly why I can't stand him. The radio hits I've heard were really forgettable but I would be willing to give him a chance if it wasn't for his fucking voice.
I do
>>129808446what hits do you think were forgettable?
>>129808196>>129808369I don't really get the critique. He was good at what he did. The affectation is part of the artistry, and the writing and feeling is still real. I don't blame someone for having shitty imitators either.
>>129808791Even when I listen to a song I actually enjoy like Atlantic City I have to muscle past the first few seconds and let my ears adjust.
>>129806292big chungus workin class hero
>Man of the people>Is called "The Boss"
