By Matt Rooney
Bruce Springsteen is a shameless misery merchant, Save Jerseyans. Consider his catalogue, and you don’t even need to analyze the lyrics. Just go with the titles:
“The River” – unwanted pregnancy and lost youth.
“Stolen Car” – emotional distress.
“Racing in the Street” – apathy?
“Wreck on the Highway” – fragility of mortality!
“You’re Missing” – grief/depression…
And let’s not even get into “Streets of Philadelphia.”
I’ve never been a huge fan. I also won’t pretend that I haven’t – with some regularity in the past – let Born to Run or Dancing in the Dark roar on my car radio on a Friday in July as I battled Atlantic City Expressway eastbound traffic. But the Boss – like many celebrities – has become insufferable in the era of viral TDS which not only makes his depressing lyrics all the less tolerable BUT also underscores how out of touch this guy really is.
He’s been a millionaire since his ’20s. Now he’s 76 and a billionaire, having spent half a century singing about social and economic problems which he hasn’t experienced since at least the Ford Administration?
Now he’s out with a new diddy – “Street of Minneapolis” (hardly original) – which is a protest song about Trump’s “private army” (aka ICE). I posted the audio below, but it’s not exactly a leg-slapping instant classic.
What does Bruce know about the ravages of illegal immigration in a community where residents don’t live behind gates with private security? At a property where he’s benefitted from a farmland assessment tax break?
Is he producing any music in honor of the 8-year-old Jersey girl whose skull was fractured by a criminal illegal alien?
Of course not.
Shut up, asshole. Seriously. You’re exhausting.
Go ride your horses and sing about something you actually understand. Antique cars? Caviar? Butlers? Some simple signs of a ‘sense of self’ would be appreciated. At the very least, it might finally be time to reconsider making money off of misery which you cannot begin to understand.
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MATT ROONEY is SaveJersey.com’s founder and editor-in-chief, a practicing New Jersey attorney, and the host of ‘The Matt Rooney Show’ on 1210 WPHT every Saturday evening from 7-9 PM EST.
