The music industry has become increasingly obsessed with anniversaries of record release dates—no matter how tenuous its math (“It’s the 23 1/2th anniversary of Is This It by the Strokes! Let’s celebrate!”). Forty years ago this month in 1984 saw the release of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. The...
Bruce Springsteen performs at Giants Stadium in the summer of 1985 on the"Born in the U.S.A." tour.The music industry has become increasingly obsessed with anniversaries of record release dates—no matter how tenuous its math in the grip of Bruce Fever completely misinterpreted the actual meaning of the title track…though the Gipper was hardly the only one to do so .
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland, as Hyden says in the intro, is a Springsteen bio or a “making of the record” history. Instead, he’s more focused on topics like why Bruce made it at that particular point in his career and its popular explosion, how it changed the culture, and what it means four decades down the road.
He also digs into Springsteen’s transformation from the skinny, scruffy, near-homeless looking vagabond of the-era to the newly-muscular, pumped, denim-and-bandana wearing Springsteen that exuded a physical power showcased in his sleeveless T-shirts. Though it’s a bit cringey when Hyden mentions that the then-fortysomething Dylan began to adapt a sort of Springsteen look in the mid-‘80s, and gives off an, uh “Hyden also notes there’s a lot of closing-in-on-middle-age masculine pain in the lyrics. Think about how much self-hatred the narrator of “Dancing in the Dark” plainly professes, though his laments are wrapped in a synth-heavily booty shaking sound.
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