Not sure what forum this best fits. Springsteen released this anthem and it is worth sharing.
If this should be in politics please move.
Boss is bossing
Very poetic, touching lyrics.
Which Republican candidate in/from Minnesota will be the first to use this in their campaign/as their campaign theme song?
Wow … powerful stuff. Thanks for posting that.
I would love to see the restaurants, shops, bars, etc. in D.C. area playing this song, if not on a loop, then in heavy rotation.
I found this a short time ago myself. It’s moving and powerful and I added it to my playlist.
The line about bloody footprints and mercy got me yesterday.
Very great and very moving. In the tradition of all the great protest songs, reminds me especially of Neil Young’s “Ohio” in its topicality and spontaneity. Already one of his greatest songs. I hope it will go to number one on all platforms. Already 2.5 million views on youtube.
I posted it in my WhatsApp status.
I was one of the first 5,000 viewers. A Dane on Threads clued me into it.
Reading the youtube comments expressing solidarity from all around the world and people from Minneapolis thanking them brought tears to my eyes.
I have never been much of a Springsteen fan but this is good, pertinenet and powerful.
That was very moving, thanks for posting.
It’s followed by a link to a Leonard Cohen collection, which makes me wonder what that great poetic lyricist may have written about these events if he were still alive. We certainly live in deeply troubled times.
This is why the Boss is the boss.
As I said in the ‘ICE Shootings’ thread, this song reminded me of the anti-fascist work of Woody Guthrie.
Yeah, it’s definitely a song in the tradition of folks like Woody, Pete Seeger and Dylan.
I love this song. My only complaint is it sounds like an “old man song” and might not be listenable by the youngens. On the other hand, that same sound really roots it in the traditions.
Maybe and hopefully this inspires some of the pop stars appealing to younger people to also raise their voices and release protest songs.
Yes, I’ve never cared for his singing, but I’ve begun to like him an awful lot.
Cohen died the day the temper tanTrump was first elected. No joke, no metaphor. The same day. Made the day double sad for me.
I also wonder what Lou Reed would have written about the current administration (and I use the term loosely), considering that he wrote
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I’ll piss on 'em
That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let’s club 'em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
and
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
And died being treated at Mt. Sinai
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one’s ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
After running over Rudy Giuliani
They say the President’s dead, no one can find his head
It’s been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit
I’m sick of it
I’m sick of you
Both (Dirty Blvd. and Sick of you) from his 1989 album New York. 1989! He was a prophet or a Nostradamus.